By the way, the mystery fire station with the Range Rover and the Ford Transit on it was Wembley, we just happened to be down there picking up some kit. It’s had some fire enthusiasts baffled in the past.
OK on with ‘other’ bits and bobs. This series of pictures were taken by Les Stubbs of Hull, he worked around the corner from this warehouse when the fire broke out. It was in 1978, Carbutt’s warehouse was in Great Union Street and backed on to the River Hull, it was used for the storage of animal foods - in a nutshell it was a belting job! In the loading bay, trucks were reversed into the building down a slope, leaving the trailer in a pit, level with the warehouse floor. Now when that pit fills up with firefighting water you have a tendancy to think it’s all floor - I heard that several firefighters went splash, which is a hoot a) if it’s not you and b) until your heavy firekit gets sodden with water then it’s not such a hoot … enjoy.
Glenn, a really good thread this one mate, adds a bit of variety… Some cracking pictures, stories and info. The historical pictures and the incidents are superb. All those old 70’s and even 80’s machines look so dated now!
Thanks for sharing.
RARE DENNIS!!
Today’s picture is of an extremely unusual Dennis which ran out of one of the old Teeside stations. As you can see it has a detachable roof this is because, in certain parts of their station area there was a very low bridge. So apparently in cases when they got a shout in that direction, off came the roof before they rolled! As you can see it appears to have no side windows which will have made it lovely to be on, in rain and snow even with the lid on!
It remains to be seen what they crew did if they were already out and they got redirected to the ‘low bridge area’, did they leave the roof at the roadside? Also there’s no seat for the officer in charge? Hmm…cuts eh?
Enjoy …
These few pictures I took when we went to the Carmichael Fire factory to do inspections on the Humberside Dennis Rapiers. These were the only Rapiers that Humberside had built at Carmichael and in my humble opinion were the worst batch we had…
The first shows one of the trucks in the bodyshop and the other two show one of them being run up for it’s pump output test, pumping for a specific amount of time at a cretain pressure with all electrics in use at the same time.
Enjoy!
Nice work if you can get it mate!
Really enjoying this thread, keep up the good work.
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It’s an amazing, bouncy but very lonely place bud. The modern ones are fine as you can take control and move yourself but the olders ones … well if you were in the smoke and your operator took his eye off the ball, you developed the art of holding your very breath quickly!
By the way…anything with blue lights is ok on here, I know young fotopics has a few unusual shots?
Not quite truck but the ‘Clara Stark’ was Hull’s fireboat which has plenty of folklore attached to it. Stories include the day it caught fire and also when the crew inadvertantly moored it incorrectly and as the tide went out the fireboat was left hanging on the dock side out of the water! Your life in our hands eh?
Today’s is a quick lesson in fire safety - the job - fatal fire in 10th floor flat, started by one of the occupants of the flat left his mother in the flat asleep and … jammed the front door open! Result, sadly the lady died and firefighters rescued several people from other flats. Take a look at the pictures, sorry there’s no truck so they’re a little bit off thread but they’re a great graphic illustration of how smoke spreads.
Sorry, I’ll put some fire engines on next just thought it would be interesting
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HULL CENTRAL FIRE STATION 1933
I just came across this picture of the line up at Hull Central Fire Station in 1933, it appears that there is a very rare Dennis ambulance at the very end of the line, probably in the days of the City of Hull Police Fire Brigade, those were the days. My Gran used to live across the road from this station and I remember All of the trucks in the yard every Satruday mornig while they cleaned the floors in those days every bay was full, the station has recently been reduced to one fire engine - sign of the times eh?
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Today might be of interest for you Bedford enthusiasts. The picture is from the Fire Engine Photos website, thanks to them. It shows an ex North Yorkshire Fire Bedford which used to carry one of those big wheeled escapes. It may be me but are the headlights from a KM or similar have they been seen before on a TK?
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Tonight’s offering is from London FB of the past, all pictures are from the Fire Engine Photos, thank you
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Back to a varied selection for today folks …
The first picture shows your truly at a chemical incident perhaps in 1980 ish. The almost every one of the drums on the trailer was rotten but contained corrosive chemicals, later it transpired that almost all of the load on the ship leaked which caused severe problems for not only the emergency services and docks teams but also to the owners of the ship.
Next up a picture from the early sixties in the Hull area, the rest is self explanatory …
Third … in the early eighties we took a holiday camp 4 wheeler bike and built it into a fire engine - over a 4 day period White Watch from Immingham Fire Station cycled the device around every Humberside FB station (32 in all) to raise money for the Fire Srevices Benevolent Fund. The ride started in Bridlington where the late comedian Les Dawson came to start us off. The bike is seen here on the promenade at Cleethorpes.
On the day that the Government have made an annoucement about the demise of the national Fire Control project … this photo was taken on the last day that the old Humberside Fire Control operated at Hull Central Fire Station before moving to it’s present location at Service HQ at Summergroves Way. Judy Mitchell and Dave Witty hold the fort whilst calls are transferred to the new centre. Interesting point about the old control room, you can see the Fire Ext behind Judy, a door which was used quite a lot. If you came in and accidentally slammed the door, all of the magnetic fire engine call signs would fall off the wall into a pile on the floor, resulting in no one knowing where anything was!!
Finally (for this batch anyway), a couple of shots of Hull East Fire Station in Southcoates Lane, which opened in 1927 and still operates today. These pics were taken in the early 80’s when it still had it’s wooden doors and front garden areas.
Enjoy!
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not far off though eh? lol