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Good icon, btw.
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SomeRandomBint wrote:Infra Dignitatem
Josef wrote:SomeRandomBint wrote:Infra Dignitatem
Good icon, btw.
HollowHorn wrote:North West Fire Station, Kelbourne St. Maryhill. 1965 :
2003:
SomeRandomBint wrote:Haha! I remember going to the Christmas Parties at Central, where my Dad was based in the 80s (he moved out to Parkhead when it closed). There was also, IIRC, a stuffed dog in a case there. Wallace the fire dog - they had little leather socks made for him, when he used to chase the fire engines to the scenes of fires, and help rescue people from the burning buildings.
Must ask my Dad for more info about Central. He used to go to the site when it was the Fire Station Restaurant, and complain about having to scrub the tiled floors when he worked there!
Glesga_Steve wrote:SomeRandomBint wrote:Haha! I remember going to the Christmas Parties at Central, where my Dad was based in the 80s (he moved out to Parkhead when it closed). There was also, IIRC, a stuffed dog in a case there. Wallace the fire dog - they had little leather socks made for him, when he used to chase the fire engines to the scenes of fires, and help rescue people from the burning buildings.
Must ask my Dad for more info about Central. He used to go to the site when it was the Fire Station Restaurant, and complain about having to scrub the tiled floors when he worked there!
Your Dad must have worked with my old man at Parkhead station.
My Dad was a fireman for about 16 or 17 years (mid-70s up to early 90s IIRC). I think we (Dad, Mum and I) lived at Partick station for a very brief period around the time I was born (1976) and then we moved to Central station for a while before my folks eventually got a council house in Baillieston. I'm not sure if my Dad worked at Central or if we just had short-term accomodation there - I was only a toddler when we lived there so I have barely any memories of it. My dad spent most of his career at Parkhead (should have got danger money for being based in Lilybank!!) and loved the job - he only left the Brigade because he suffered a knee injury.
dimairt wrote:Hello Tartanmarco, hope you like this one. The fire station was located between St George's in the Field Church and Cedar St flats.
Durachdan,
Eddy
Fireman wrote:If you're meaning Ingram St Jock it went through a number of phases in its life, but this is how I remember it in the 1970's -
Ingram St fire station was a very large complex of buildings beyond the frontage - on the ground floor if you were in Ingram St facing the appliance room you had the Watchroom and the *4 appliance bays, which always had appliances in them. Roughly in the middle of this frontage was the pend entrance which took you into the inner yard where all the other buildings could be accessed from ie. workshops, gym, tool rooms, single-mens quarters & firemen's housing, stores, breathing apparatus servicing, garages, Fire Prevention offices and the rear entrance up to the firemen's tenement housing which fronted onto the High St., boiler house and the fire station's offices, To the left of the pend entrance were the Firemaster's and Chief Clerk's offices.
Directly above the pend was Fire Control for Glasgow where the biggest majority of 999 calls went if a member of the public needed the fire brigade. This is also where the stations were turned out from and the two-way radio communication to fire engines was run. The remainder of that floor was used by the fire station as living quarters, such as lecture room, recreation room, billets, and directly above the workshops was the canteen. Next floor up I think was billets again and the top floor was offices for senior officers, staff office, conference room, etc.
*As Glasgow's incidence of fire increased there was a need to provide additional special appliances to cope with the growing demands of modern materials, so the High Expension Foam Unit (Hi-Ex) appliance was stationed into one of the garages in the yard. The main appliance room had in the 1970's a Water Tender Ladder, a Pump Escape, a Turntable Ladder and the Emergency Tender (later to be converted into a Breathing Apparatus Tender).
I better mention though - its been a while so I may have got something a wee bit back to front, but the majority of the layout I'm describing I'm confident is right.
Ruchazie Rat wrote:I read here that the HQ was relocated to Cowcaddens. What about the new station later built between the Gallowgate and Bell St (west of Morrisons)? Did this replace the Ingram St fire station proper?
calamity wrote:Soho st had a big fire station with houses at the back in Brigton..
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