Log books
From: BooksThis site is to show the minute by minute diaries written by the duty men at Blackburn station. There will be 20 sample pages from each log book for people to read and get an idea from, the entries themselves are well worth a look for anyone , sometimes mundane but sometimes very interesting. This site will be especially good for those people whose relatives worked at the station particularly between the 1950’s and 1974 when the Borough fire brigade ceased to be and became Lancashire County. Some of the later samples will be from much earlier and give details of fires that were attended. If you find these samples particularly interesting and would like to see more then please contact us. We have 5 log books digitised onto computer now and will be doing more as the years go by. However you may like to see the actual books themselves if you do then we will be able to direct you to Lancashire Archives at Preston where the books are available to view. The history behind these books is also quite interesting , in that when the Borough was taken over by the county it was decided that anything with Blackburn Borough on it had to be got rid of, the log books themselves were thrown into a skip one of many that were placed on the fire station yard , the on duty firemen of the time thought that it would be good to keep them for posterity and so rescued them and took them to the local library where they were put into storage. When our station museum was up and running in the 1990’s the books were returned to the station on loan and were made available for all to see by appointment. However in 2012 when the brigade moved into their new fire station there was not enough room for a museum and so the books were sent to Lancashire Archives at Preston where they are today.
Reference number
BP/1/01- 1990 New Commander for Blackburn fire station
- 1990’s Green watch
- 1991 Green Watch drilling in town centre
- 1991 Two officers taking time out from observing drill
- A Visit To The Fire Station From The Radio Station
- A Well Deserved Rest
- Accrington Watch 1990’s
- Aerial Ladder Platform training in the 1990’s
- Billy Whitely’s Retirement Bash
- Blackburn Inter-watch Competition
- Blackburn’s Station Manager Gary Monk
- Blue Watch At Drill
- Blue Watch Dangling At Bibby’s Foodstuffs Whitebirk
- Budgie Rescue
- Burnley FC Arson Seminar
- Celebration of 200 years 1994 The Plaque presentation
- Children In Need Canoe Event At Waves
- Cleaning the engine house
- Cricket Interwatch 1990’s
- Entertaining the public
- Ewood Safety Tips To The Rescue
- Fire Prevention Day King William Street 1990’s
- Green watch
- Green Watch 1990’s
- Green Watch 1990’s (Joe Pickup’s retirement)
- Green Watch 2000’s
- Green Watch at Joe Pickups’retirement
- Hard Hats And Soft Hearts; Carl & Chris Fogarty raise money for charity
- John Riley At Sixties Night Blackburn Fire Station
- Ken’s Leaving, Last Night At The Station
- Kevin Gibson’s Charity Football Match
- Long Service Personnel 1980s
- Members of Red Watch 1990’s
- Message Loud And Clear For Bob
- Open day 1992
- Open Day 1993
- Orphanage Cup Final Darwen Anchor Ground 1997
- Orphanage Cup Game Circa 1990’s
- Recruit Photos With Blackburn Firemen 1980s
- Red Watch 1994
- Red watch River Ribble Raft Race 1980s
- Station drill on old Byrom street station
- The Floods At Brownhill 1980s
- The Ram Fan Rally
- Tony Clemson’s Leaving Do
- White watch drill in Corporation park 1990’s
- White watch drilling 1990’s
- White Watch drilling behind old B and Q
- White Watch In The 90’s
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