Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Wed 5th Feb 2020 5:24pm
Oddsock
Yes, the fire service ran a small ambulance service but should have reverted to fire service when the alert sounded. |
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Prof
Gloucester
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Wed 5th Feb 2020 5:25pm
On 11th Apr 2012 9:55pm, covmanuk said:
Just to say that the pole that the firemen had to go down was taken down and put in the bar in that place now for us to sit and put our feet on it as a footrest around the bar, sad I think??? And yes I think the firemen did live in the houses over the road as my mum had to clean there and she told me.
As a child on Lady Day, 1943? my dad took me to see a fire engine from the fire station pulled on ropes by a group of firemen. Then I was taken upstairs and a firemen held me close to him and slid down the pole with me, my dad waiting for me on the ground floor! I also remember a procession of some sort coming down Trinity St, there were women/girls in white dresses but I don't think a representation of Godiva! |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Sun 9th Feb 2020 10:26am
OddSock
It may be worth looking up, there was a fire officer killed outside Cov & War Hospital, night of the Blitz, 14th, not sure if he was driving ambulance or not.
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Sunbeam
Coundon
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Thu 13th Feb 2020 4:22pm
I seem to remember that the yellow colour made some people nauseous and dizzy, which contributed to it being withdrawn. |
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Not Local
Bedworth
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Fri 14th Feb 2020 12:34pm
On 1 April 1974 Coventry found itself part of the newly formed metropolitan county called 'West Midlands' so the fire brigade, police, ambulance, and buses all came under new management. This management structure was mostly dominated by people from Birmingham. No way were they going to have their fire engines painted in a colour called 'Coventry Fire Brigade Yellow'. In the same way our police cars started to look like those from Birmingham, and our buses also adopted the Birmingham livery. |
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Helen F
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Fri 14th Feb 2020 4:12pm
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Prof
Gloucester
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Fri 14th Feb 2020 6:59pm
I don't think so Helen. My memory is that in front of the fire engine were two young ladies in white long dresses with a sash with writing on it that both had, possibly holding a white or cold ribbon attached to the fire engine. I said 1943 as an estimate of my age at the time but it may have been 44 or even '45 as I would still be no more than six, my birthday coming in August. I wonder whether Anne could help with newspapers of the time? '45 could be more possible as war ended?
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Sat 15th Feb 2020 11:26am
Sorry Prof I can't find anything, looked all through the CET for the 1940's for anything to do with the fire station. The only thing I could find was August 1943 for the 2nd anniversary of the National Fire Service. There were demonstrations give on Poole Meadow and a procession of appliances and equipment and the fire station was open in the evening, which could have been what Kaga mentioned. Nothing about ladies in white dresses.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Sun 16th Feb 2020 10:54am
Annewiggy, Prof,
I doubt you will, I was led to believe that all marches, meetings, etc., apart from military fire brigade, ambulances were banned for the duration of the war. I think strikes were also banned. |
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20A-Manor House
Coventry
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Wed 11th Nov 2020 11:16am
On 30th Dec 2017 3:12pm, Kaga simpson said:
NeilsYard. Over the top of the fire station you can see the training tower, this was about fifty feet high? I was taken there once when I was in the Armstrong Siddeley fire brigade for sheet jumping - we climbed about ten/twelve feet high then jumped out of the window. You had to rely on the men below to catch you in the sheet (or mat); you had to look straight in front of you, not look down. Once you did that correctly then you moved higher to twenty feet and jumped, it meant little to me (after my Para training) but there were several men found it a bit scary. But it reminded me that Coventry had the two towers not far apart.
Kaga. An article from 1902 with a bit more detail of the fire station tower:
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Thu 12th Nov 2020 10:30am
20A-Manor House. Thank you. What a cracking building.
When Coventry needed a fire station it built that one in Hales Street, right close up to the river, on waste land I believe. Here the firemen trained, but around the mid-1930's Coventry now needed a bus station, so they built Pool Meadow and things were getting more advanced and the fire brigade needed a training ground close by.
Come the blitz, and the main water collapsed, so the firemen went to the new training area, took the only available water from the river which was just behind the Wine Lodge on the Burges, and I posted this months ago.
Now over the last few months NeilsYard has posted two photos I answered with the right info, I also asked if he would re-post one other of his photos. To all three he didn't have the decency to acknowledge anything.
So when he posted that one on #120 on the West Orchard topic, I didn't answer. I knew exactly where it was. I had trained there, and had told you all, so it wasn't rocket science. |
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20A-Manor House
Coventry
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Thu 12th Nov 2020 11:51am
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20A-Manor House
Coventry
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Thu 12th Nov 2020 12:21pm
The earliest photograph I have of the building.
(Hope you don't mind me going XL on the upload)
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Helen F
Warrington
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Thu 12th Nov 2020 1:20pm
I'm impressed that they managed to match the extension to the left so well.
The fire station was built on the land where the first baths were located. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Fri 13th Nov 2020 8:41am
Helen Were there baths in hales Street then before Priory st? |
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