Reference
FSD/PC28
Title
Album No. 27
Date free text
21 August 1980 to 28 May 1981
Production date
From: 1980 To: 1981
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- BCC councillors block scheme for new fire station at Stopsley Way, Luton;
- warning of fire dangers at Fairfield Hospital*;
- FS opinion that budget cuts were causing personnel to look “scruffy”;
- fire at hi-fi manufacturer, Shortmead Street, Biggleswade*;
- article on 15 year old boy with a passion for models of FS vehicles*;
- FS opposition to budget cuts;
- chemical spillage on M1 (sulphuryl chloride);
- suicide by self-immolation, People’s Park, High Town, Luton;
- article on fire crew at Toddington Fire Station*;
- fireman talks down would-be suicide from a roof at 24 Park Avenue, Bedford*;
- fatal fire at 117 Essex Close, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/256]*;
- fire at The Old Manor House, Blunham*;
- presentation of BEM to SubO Richard Baker (Potton)*;
- attack on life sentence imposed on a convicted arsonist as too harsh*;
- fire, possibly arson, in attic bedroom at 7 Napier Road, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/259]*;
- FS demonstration at County Hall over proposed budget cuts*;
- fatal fire at 48 Pine View Park, Clophill Road, Maulden [see FSD/RR 1/261]*;
- fire at Newnham Middle School*;
- fire at piggery, Thrift Farm, Silsoe Road, Flitton*;
- suicide by self-immolation at 45 Stanford Road, Luton;
- need for a fire station in Flitwick;
- priority to be given to construction of a new fire station in Stopsley Way, Luton;
- crash of Nigerian Lockheed Jet Star at Luton Airport [see FSD/RR 1/263]*;
- fatal fire in hostel at 95 Ashburnham Road, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/264]*;
- arson at Lillywhite Timber Merchants, Skimpot Lane, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/260]*;
- fire at Buckingham Furniture Company, Bedford Road, Aspley Guise*;
- rebuilding of Bedford School Great Hall [see FSD/PC 23]*;
- destruction by fire, possibly arson, of WI Hall, High Street, Arlesey*;
- fatal mid-air collision of glider and light aircraft over High Street, Kempston*;
- plan to begin work on Stopsley Way Fire Station, Luton, sooner than intended blocked by BCC councillors;
- CFO Haley’s concern at high levels of inexperienced firemen in some Beds FS fire stations and FBU opposition to reallocation to correct this;
- reopening of Brewery Tap PH, Park Street, Luton*.
Level of description
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