Fire Brigade with the new Merryweather Fire Engine on Farley Common in 1929 The firemen are: On the tender L-R Bill Allen, Alf Allen, Alf Nicholas, Fred Dunn, Fred Nicholas On the ground L-R Bill Henley, Arthur Galloway, Fred Paige, Major Hicks, George Avis, Bert Wood, Charlie Sharp. The driver is George Burgess. Local garage owner Charlie Sharp ...
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Peter Finch “…I don’t know whether they suspected another war was coming, but there was lots of building going on just before the war – the fire station was resited at the top of Croydon Road in a smart new building, with a mortuary to the side of it. Outside the mortuary window they erected ...
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