An early Fire Station in Wivenhoe
Not in Brook Street but behind the Council Offices in the High Street
Peter Hill
The Wivenhoe Auxiliary Fire Service was formed during World War II and was based on land behind what is now the Town Council offices in the High Street but which had been acquired a few years earlier, in 1936, as the King George’s Playing Field.
The names painted against the pegs are:
- John Turner
- Bob Oakely
- Ernest Davis
- Alfred Cox
- Alan Chaney
- Walter Frost
- John Munson
- James AE Muson
- George Abrahams
- Sammy Oliver
- Fred Parker
Note: The first fire station was in Alma Street, close by the Council Offices which were in a house called Little Wick which is on the corner of High Street and Alma Street. There was no fire engine as such; more buckets and a hand pump with a hose.
For a history of the Wivenhoe fire service, click here
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This page was added on 05/01/2017.
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Whilst a pupil at the Old Boys’ School, I can recall seeing the firemen pulling the fire cart from this shed to a fire at the Broomy, now occupied by the Broomgrove estate. This would have been in approx. 1938/39, and was before the days of any form of motorised fire pump
Hi Tony. Didn’t realise you went back this far !! Best. Peter
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