Fire Brigade away to visit Sevenoaks Carnival 1906
Geoff Hoath “…when I was very small they used to have a horse-drawn tender that was kept in the old fire station in Post Office yard, and the horses were kept down at the market field. My grandfather was superintendent of the brigade and grandmother had one of the fire-bells. If anyone came saying there was a fire she used to stand there and ring the bell – it was a huge thing and she wasn’t very big, but it used to clang away and the horses would hear it and come up to the gate of the field. Whoever was walking by would open the gate and the horses would walk up to the fire station, ready to be hooked up to the tender…”
Date of coverage
1906Contributor
Bill CurtisReference number
WH0942Collection
John Hooker (83)
Format
Photograph (974)
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