Reference
FSD/PC29
Title
Album No. 28
Date free text
29 May 1981 to 30 April 1982
Production date
From: 1981 To: 1982
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- investigation of fire safety standards at P&A Stores, Orchard Street, Kempston*;
- fire in kitchen begun after woman who had received an obscene telephone call was too shaken to remember a frying pan on the oven*;
- necessity to recruit more full-time firemen*;
- photograph of 1855 manual pump on display at an open day*;
- fireman’s admission of driving without due care and attention when he overturned a FS Land Rover on the way to an emergency and magistrate’s lenient attitude;
- three nights of rioting in Luton*;
- fire at Goodka General Store, Dunstable Road, Bury Park, Luton*;
- fire at bungalow in Sundown Avenue, Dunstable*;
- fatal air crash at Cranfield air display *;
- article re attack on extreme right wing groups by father of a boy who
- fire bombed an Asian family’s home;
- brief article on Bedford trucks fire appliances with photograph of Bedford HCB Angus Type B WT*;
- fire at Westbourne Road, Luton*;
- arson at The Caribbean Stores, Bury Park Road, Luton*;
- articles commemorating fifth anniversary of petrol tanker explosion in Westoning High Street [see FSD/PC 19]*;
- promotion of 3rd Officer Terry Malpass to be CFO Durham FS*;
- fire at Belal Merchant Co.Ltd. warehouse, 92 Old Bedford Road [see FSD/RR 1/265];
- report of trial a man setting fire to his own house, 41 Ampthill Street, Bedford, following an argument;
- fire at Heath Manor, Leighton Road, Heath & Reach*;
- death aged 98 of Bedford’s first full time fireman, John Ashwell*;
- third arson attack on family at Brentwood Close, Houghton Regis*;
- disclosure that County Hall had not been awarded a fire certificate in the twelve years since its opening*;
- fireman in charge of collecting box for FSNBF who stole the contents and committed fraud, ostensibly to pay for his mother’s funeral;
- fire at cottages in Woburn Street, Ampthill*;
- fire at Oak Road, Luton*;
- arsonist sentenced to three years imprisonment*;
- rejection of a plan to cut ten firemen’s jobs at Luton;
- plans to build Stopsley Fire Station with two bays instead of three;
- presentation of 1909 horsedrawn steam fire engine (ex-Thorney [Cambs]) to FSHQ by W.H.Allen Ltd. who renovated it*;
- lack of full time firemen in Beds *;
- trial of man who set Japanese cars on fire in protest at their importation;
- 24 hour strike by firemen, answering emergency calls only, in support of public service unions;
- exercise to rescue passengers from an airliner crashing on take-off at Luton Airport*;
- fatal fire inside a chip van in Miles Drive, Clifton [see also FSD/PC 30]*;
- fire at Mayhorn & Son Ltd., Market Square, Biggleswade in 1923*;
- FBU criticism of 86% reduction in money allocated to safety work at fire stations;
- fire at 46 Bunker’s Drive, Cotton End [see FSD/RR 1/271]*;
- fire at Crest Motor Hotel, Dunstable Road, Luton, next to M1;
- need for more Beds FS retained firemen;
- suicide by self-immolation, 113 Gardenia Avenue, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/269].
Level of description
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