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joefirebobby wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2012 12:17 pm The list of names of the firemen and salvagemen on the Roll of Honour at the MFRS Heritage and Education Centre is appended below .
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joefirebobby wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2012 7:55 pm Warehouse fire Lydia Anne Street off Duke Street Liverpool 1961 .
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joefirebobby wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:41 pm North Shore Mill fire Boundary Street area , just after the end of WW2 , still remembered as one of the biggest fires in Liverpool since the Blitz .
The fire was tackled by the then National Fire Service .
Hose taken across the Liverpool -Leeds Canal .
An aerial photograph of the area showing the density of the warehouses and other industrial premises together with domestic property around the the time of the fire .
Photographs courtesy of Simon Ryan MFRS ( Copyright ) .
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joefirebobby wrote: ↑Sat Jun 30, 2012 10:41 am The Memorial to over 1300 firefighters who have been killed tackling fires and other emergencies in war and peace time .
Their names are on the Memorial , which is located very close to St.Paul's Cathedral in London .
Daniel Gallacher's son attended the recent unveiling of the Roll of Honour at MFRS Heritage and Education Centre , his dad was killed when the ammunition ship Malakand caught fire and blew up in the May Blitz in 1941 .
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joefirebobby wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:22 pm The latest fire engine at the MFRS Heritage and Education Centre .
An ex Bootle Fire Brigade F8 Dennis fire engine from the 1950's .
The Heritage staff drove it from Birmingham on the M6 where it comfortably reached 70 MPH , mind you it does have a Rolls Royce engine .
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joefirebobby wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:45 pm A terrible fire in Liverpool in 1933 which destroyed the Philharmonic Hall , photograph taken in Hardman Street .
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joefirebobby wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:56 pm Fire in the 1950's, in a warehouse in Costain Street near the Liverpool / Bootle border .
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joefirebobby wrote: ↑Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:43 pm Photograph taken circa 1930 .
This photograph purchased by me from Sefton Council ( Digital Archives ) .
The Mayor pictured is Alderman Edmund Gardner, who was Mayor 1927 to 1929.
Simon Mahon was Mayor 1929 to 1930.
Pictures below.
