Fire Duty

Firewatch

From 8pm-8am you had no sleep at all - walking around the streets carrying a bucket of water and a bucket...

Home and Away — Alys Clarke

My father was on fire-watching duties at a notorious red-light pub, the Criterion in College Street. When...

Fire Away

On Holton Aerodrome,the United States Army Air Force had an efficient fire brigade,but for much of the time...

Gloucestershire Fire Service during the War

I ended up joining Gloucester Aircraft Companies fire service in Novemeber 1941 as a cadet. I remeber the...

The First Flying Bombs

While Albert was stationed there the Flying Bombs — V1's started. The very first time he saw...

Young Firemen

On the Sunday morning the Salvation Army mobile Canteen arrived and while we were having a cup of tea a...

Where's The Fire?

During an air raid in 1940,at age fourteen, I was the youngest member of a team of Firewatchers stationed...

Fire Watch at the Greenock Blitz

After the night of 6th May we were turned out to the distillery in Baker Street... Most of it was lying...

Busy Bee Joyce

Joyce would finish at the Fire Station at 6am, rush back home where father would have a cup of tea waiting...

Starting Work at 15

When I was told, I would be a messenger, from Lother Road school to Bourn Park Bridge. All of s kids were...

I Was a Driver for the Fire Service by Brenda Lees (nee Griffin)

I Was a Driver for the Fire Service by Brenda Lees. I was a driver for the Fire service at Moss Side...

An Explosion at Ransomes, Ipswich.

He went to work at Ransomes, the famous engineering company in Ipswich, just by the docks. Ipswich suffered...

Firemen to Normandy

We only know about this because he had left us some military maps of the Brecon Beacons area, which were...

'Shelters' and 'Firewatching'

We had an Anderson Shelter in our back garden, it was dug out of the earth, the roof was aluminium and the...

Girls in the Fire Service

I remember walking home through rubble with fireman working non stop all night and day. One fireman told me...

A Firefighter in the War

The first one is: while he was off-duty he was standing looking out to sea,on the North side of the Tyne,he...

Fire watching for a shilling

The factory where I worked when I was sixteen,organised work on rotas and I had to learn how to use the...

Tea, Sandwiches and Fire Watching

I remember sitting up on the flat roof of Baggot's Factory in the Diglis Basin on the lookout for...

Auxillery Fire Service

A photograph of Albert Taylor, submitted by his daughter Joan Olive draper. Albert worked for the...

On the Move Again

On the Move Again...

Fire Watching and Glenn Miller

I remember being invited to Elmswell Air Base to see the Glenn Miller Orchestra together with Dinah Shore...

Fire Watching

I was a primary school teacher and lived in Seaham Harbour with my father who was in the Home Guard. I did...

Fire Service: In Edmonton

I had a hairdressing business and continued to run this and do part time fire fighting in the control rooms...

Fire Watch

Whilst researching my family history I came across this entry in the local newspaper dated 26 Mar 1943. My...

A Near Miss

He went "hell for leather", reached his destination, threw his bike on the floor and dived under...

My Grandfather the Fireman

My grandfather worked as a fireman during the war... He worked on Sale firestation and stayed there until...