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Fire Service Photo Gallery

A selection of photographs from various sources with a Fire Service theme

A parade in Church Street, probably during the First World War. The man on horseback is probably Tom Norton who supplied the horses that pulled the engine. He was a baker and confectioner who also hired out brakes (carriages) The occasion could be a military funeral except that the spectators have not removed their hats.

A 1930 press cutting showing Frank Eady and Ernie Desborough with the One-Man Drill winners cup

Mr Archibald C. Harris, Burton Latimer’s Fire Brigade Captain who had served inthe Brigade for over 21 years when he
retired in 1934

Fireman Ted Dicks with his daughter Edna at their home in Spencer Street in the 1930s
The Pavilion, a hall in the yard opposite the Red Cow, used for dances and meetings, was destroyed by fire in 1926. The photographs are taken from the Evening Telegraph. Mr William Waters, the Fire Captain at the time, is seen in the left-hand photograph surveying the scene on the following day.

Fireman Albert Tailby married Miss Evelyn Webb at the Methodist Church inJune 1937. They are seen here in Duke Street sharing the front seat of the fire engine with its driver Bert Desborough

Fireman Percy Ashby married Miss Kathleen Loake at the Parish Church in September 1938, his fellow firemen providing a guard of honour

Standing outside the Duke Street Fire Station in the 1950s are L-R: Gerald Farrow, Albert Tailby, Percy Toseland, ..?.., Joe Whitney, Gerald Baish, Arthur Butlin, ..?..,Arthur Barlow and Ron Cloleman

Gerald Baish thrills the crowds in
Alexandra Street during a 1950s Gala Parade on a ladder mounted on a Leyland /Merryweather appliance

1958 – Gerald Baish, Albert Tailby, Albert Lovell, John Desborough and Ron Benzie

The Pole Position Cars showroom on the corner of High Street and Pioneer Avenue after a disasterous fire in 1983

In 1990 a fire broke out in the building that was once the Electric Palace Cinema but was in use as a restaurant and flats at the time

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