Blackburn Fire Station 1972

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Blackburn Fire Station 1972

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  • That’s what I remember in 1979 playing on Byron st and going at the back trying to get in the red engine lol??

    By Mohammed Shafiq (09/03/2015)
  • very very familiar for me Fern. my Hubby served here and so did my Son. What wonderful socials we had there.

    By Sandra Riley (09/03/2015)
  • I worked at Deans bakery Canterbury St in my schooldays in the ’50s. The area on which the firestation was built used to be called The Wrangling. Most towns had one it was where the livestock was brought for slaughter before the days of refridgeration.

    By Keith Tanner (09/03/2015)
  • We lived at 44 Sumner St

    By Mandy Fletcher (09/03/2015)
  • Jim lived 36 Sumner St and 93 canterberry

    By Linda 'Bird Whisperer' Bradley (09/03/2015)
  • I lived on Sumner St, part of the fire station until 1983. My dad was a fireman there for 30 years

    By Mandy Fletcher (09/03/2015)
  • I used to live on Clifton street in 1970 when I got married

    By Allen Mcdonald (09/03/2015)
  • My hubby Jim bradley lived Canterbury St dad harry bradley a officer in brigade. also lived across from abbatoir

    By Linda 'Bird Whisperer' Bradley (09/03/2015)
  • Fern Leigh , you have had a very interesting life & lucky you met so many characters of Blackburn x

    By Vicky Flynn (09/03/2015)
  • me and my brothers used to play in the firemans yard too..we used to help clean the fire engines and sit in them

    By Fern Leigh (09/03/2015)
  • i had realtions who lived and worked there, used to love playing in the yard to the side of it, got to see all the fire men training and fire engines

    By Kevin Johnson (09/03/2015)
  • Blackburn Fire Engines 1972 – I lived in Byrom street – right across the street from the fire chiefs house

    By Fern Leigh (09/03/2015)
  • I have been able to find a few photos in my father’s papers which might be of interest to you. Many of his photos are already on the site, but these are some different ones.

    By joyce Calder (20/07/2014)

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