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USAR vehicles and a pump from St. Annes were seen at an incident in Blackpool, 25 January 2010.
Full details of new additions to the site will be posted on this page with links where appropriate.
09.03.10.
Updated pictures of Southport
and Chorley Fire Stations have been added. [see
also POLICY update.]
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06.03.10.
I am most grateful to Barrie Green
for the information and picture regarding the recently converted Animal
Rescue Unit which appears on the Cheshire
Miscellaneous page. Ken Reid has very kindly provided some
more 'gems'. The Albion Salvage Tender has been added to the Blackley
Library page, whilst another Firemaster picture has been added to the
Manchester
Central Library page and a picture of the 'white' T.L. has been added
to the Rochdale C.B. Library page. Finally
in this update a couple of most welcome picture from Peter Williams, including
the missing white machine for the
St. Helens
C.B. Library page and an additional picture of the Ford A Series Light
Rescue Vehicle has been added to the
Accrington
Library page.
02.03.10.
I am grateful to Keith Howarth
for a selection of pictures of the former Lancashire & GMC Ford Foam
Tender which for convenience and comparison have all been added to the
Eccles
Library page. Also on the same page is an additional picture
of E193WNA which saw further service in Northumberland, very generously
supplied by David Cruickshank. David has also supplied a picture of the
former GMC TL on loan at Tollcross, Edinburgh in the late 90s which can
be found on the Bury Library page.
25.02.10.
HOT NEWS: The
first of 3 new Daf LF appliances for Lancashire has just arrived in the
county this evening from Papworth. A picture has been added to the
Miscellaneous
Page.
23.02.10.
Pictures of both the old and new
Foam Tenders have been added to the Chorley
page. I have created a second page for Preesall
to show the developments taking place there. The appliance
picture at Garstang has also been revised.
21.02.10.
Following an incident on Thursday
in Hattersley, a number of appliance pictures have been updated on the
Stalybridge,
Hyde,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
Whitehill
and Oldham pages. A few pictures of
the incident itself can be found on a new page for Sandpits
Business Park. Also added is a picture of one of the Stockport
appliances just leaving the station for an incident.
Gary Chapman's excellent site for
South-West
Fire and Rescue is currently undergoing major revision. However,
some content does remain available via the new link. Every good wish
to Gary for the continuation of his greatly appreciated website.
11.02.10.
The new Environmental Protection
Unit for GMC appears on the Bury page.
Following the switch round of units A and B, the captions on the SACU
page have been updated accordingly.
10.02.10.
More new Scanias have entered service
in Merseyside and can be seen on the Bootle/Netherton,
Crosby
and Heswall pages. An additional picture
of E119HCW has been added to the Blackburn
Library page.
06.02.10.
It has been a great privilege for
me be invited to Plastisol U.K. Ltd to
take photographs which I am now able to share via this website.
Many thanks also to Barrie Green for a selection of new vehicles recently
delivered to Cheshire FRS which appear on the Miscellaneous
Page.
30.01.10.
Merseyside FRS is currently putting
another batch of Scanias into service, with Allerton,
Belle
Vale and West Kirby having an allocation
so far. Other pictures of new Scania pictures have been added
to the Merseyside Miscellaneous page.
Additionally, on the same page, are pictures of the new Mercedes pump courtesy
of Simon Ryan, who has also provided some pictures of the new Mobile Health
Screening Unit which again appears on the Miscellaneous page along with
pictures from this week's large exercise in the docks for which a new
page has been created. Following its recent decommissioning,
the picture of the Foam Tanker at Philips
Park has been moved to the Library page.
25.01.10.
A number of updated appliance pictures
have been added to the Lancashire USAR page
plus an updated appliance picture on the St. Annes
page following a 12 pump fire in Blackpool overnight.
23.01.10.
Updated pictures have been added
to the Preesall page ahead of demolition of
the current fire station, which will be replaced by a new community fire
station later this year. The new B.A. Pod for Lancashire has
been added to the Miscellaneous page.
18.01.10.
With serious fires overnight in
Blackpool and Middleton, I was turfed out of bed just after 0300 to the
latter incident, and can, therefore, add 3 night-time appliance shots on
the Manchester Central, Blackley
and Rochdale pages.
17.01.10.
An appliance from Leigh
was caught in this afternoon's sunshine.
12.01.10.
I am grateful to a number of people
for this latest update. Nigel Rowbottom has very kindly provided pictures
of a derelict school on fire in Marple.
Thanks to Barrie Green for the picture of the pre-war Chester
T.L. and the Dennis F7 during resotration. and also to Duncan Barker-Brown
for updated pictures of Padiham Fire Station.
I have also included a link
to Barrie Green's very interesting collection of fire helmets. Finally
thanks to my brother for a picture of the new Scania at Whiston.
11.01.10.
After quite a struggle, I have
finally managed to upload video footage of the fire at Maple Mill in Oldham
last April. I have had to split the video into 3 parts.
This link is to
Part 1 only. Links to other parts are available via the Video
Index page.
07.01.10.
A general tidy up with a number
of corrections to copyright ownership and also further details on the current
copyright situation regarding the Clifford Ashton
Collection.
03.01.10.
This morning was one of those very
rare occasions when I decided to take my camera with me to church.
On the way back we came across a Make
Pumps 6 plus specials in yet another timber-framed apartment block
under construction in Kearsley. Appliance pictures have been
upated as a consequence on the Agecroft, Atherton,
Bolton,
Broughton,
Bury,
Farnworth
and SACU pages.
02.01.10.
The second GMC Volvo FL DTV had
been added to the Miscellaneous page.
Another interesting and most welcome selection of pictures has been received
from Satis which appear on the Oldham C.B.
and Werneth [Hollins] library pages and
the Rochdale C.B. and Heywood
library pages.
01.01.10.
26.12.09.
Already a number of very positive
comments have been received regarding the Christmas Special. I am
grateful to Sub O Andrew Entwistle for additional information regarding
one of the 'mystery' incidents. To aid navigation of this large update,
I have now included links to each individual page on the first page of
the Clifford Ashton Tribute.
25.12.09.
A very Happy Christmas to all
visitors to the site. Special thanks to all those who have provided pictures
during 2009 especially for the Library Sections. As ever, your help
and support has been truly appreciated.
This year's Christmas Special is,
I believe, truly special and has involved many hours of preparation, hence
the lack of other updates.
The Tribute
to the Late Clifford Ashton has now been expanded to 50 pages
and contains 335 photographs! It is indeed a very great
honour for me to be able to share these pictures with you, and despite
Mr. Ashton's generosity, I do urge you all, please, to respect his copyright
without exception.
As ever in such a large update,
mistakes can happen. Please report any broken or incorrect links
or indeed any other errors to me by email [link on welcome page] ~ thanks.
19.12.09.
Thanks again to Ken Reid for providing
another couple of 'missing' archive pictures, namely the F36 from Oldham
and the Range Rover at Heywood.
15.12.09.
Many thanks to Bill Potter and
Ken Reid for an updated picture of Bedford Turntable Ladder 7PTB on the
Morecambe
Library page.
THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL UPDATE is now in preparation. Don't miss it!!
09.12.09.
More appliance pictures today from
Merseyside which can be found on the City Centre,
Old
Swan,
Bromborough
and Training Academy pages.
08.12.09.
A miscellaneous update of Lancashire
appliances on the Fulwood, Lancaster
and Bamber Bridge pages, plus 'hot of the press'
[they actually arrived as this update was being prepared] pictures of the
new Special Rescue Pump for Merseyside are on the Miscellaneous
page, with sincere thanks to Simon Ryan.
02.12.09.
A couple of updated pictures have
been added to the Maple Mill Incident
page.
26.11.09.
A selection of pictures from a
fire in a derelict mill in Stockport
Town Centre this evening.
25.11.09.
A new page has been created showing
some pictures from the 8 pump incident at Hartley's
in Wigan earlier today, plus revised appliance pictures on the Atherton,
Leigh,
Salford
and Wigan pages.
24.11.09.
Many thanks to Ken Brown for appliance
pictures from a recent 6 pump incident in Cheadle Hulme. A revised
picture has been added to the Poynton page with
an additional picture on the Cheadle and Widnes
pages. Grateful thanks also to Peter Williams for an additional
picture for the Salvage Corps page and
the Mossley Library page.
18.11.09.
Following a large fire in Widnes
overnight, updated appliance pictures have been added to the Widnes,
Runcorn,
Warrington,
Northwichand
Winsford
pages.
17.11.09.
Thanks to Keith Howarth for some
revised pictures on the SACU page. From Paul
McLean comes a great night shot of a pump from Old
Swan and pictures of a car fire
in Wavertree. Finally, another video extract has been added of a
10 pump fire at Bradshaw's,
Trafford Park in April 2008.
13.11.09.
Thank you to all who responded
so favourably to yesterday's video experiment. It would seem to have
been a resounding success. I now hope to add further videos over
the coming months, beginning today with Vibe
at Bolton in July 2008.
12.11.09
As an experiment, I have started
a new VIDEO section via You Tube. If
it is succesful, I shall add more in the future. The first brief
offering is of a car
fire in Worsley in February 2009.
06.11.09.
Some more night time shots have
been included, with an updated picture of Kirkdale
Fire Station seen on Hallowe'en and a fire at a derelict
pub in the same area on Bonfire night.
Also added, rather belatedly, are
pictures of an incident at the former Burgess
Primary School in Harpurhey on 7 October, which were very kindly supplied
by Nigel Rowbottom.
27.10.09.
I am very grateful to Peter Williams
for an excellent shot of the former Cheshire Dennis F8 after it passed
to Birkenhead.
The new station numbers for Merseyside
have now been added on each page in anticipation of the imminent change
to National Call Signs. Until the actual change, I will leave the current
station number in brackets.
20.10.09.
The current round of revisions
and updates of appliances in Lancashire has now been completed with new
pictures on the Fleetwood page, plus one revised
picture on the St. Anne's page.
Thanks to Ken Savage for an updated picture of one of the LFs at Blackburn.
One of Merseyside's new Ford Mondeo fire cars has been added to the Miscellaneous
page courtesy of Simon Ryan.
13.10.09.
Lancashire's new livery can be
found on the Miscellaneous page where additional
pictures of the new Foam Tender Pods and Prime Movers have been added.
Updated pictures of the Command Support Unit at Fulwood
and the appliance at Haslingden have also been
added.
I am delighted to be able to include
pictures from Mark Eley on the website. These include a vehicle fire
on the M56 in Cheshire and a school
fire in Merseyside [the latter supplemented with pictures from Paul
McLean ~ thanks, Paul] plus the new Marine & Tunnel Firefighting Unit
pod for Mersesyside on the Kirkdale page.
Finally in this update, another
2 new Scanias for Merseyside appear on the Miscellaneous
page with thanks to Simon Ryan.
28.09.09.
With my holiday now complete, it's
back to work on the website with another archive update, this time covering
the former County Boroughs of Warrington and Wigan. Work has also
commenced on this year's Christmas Special. All I will say at this
time is that it will be one update not to be missed!!
WARRINGTON
~ ED8952 ~ KED300~ PED555 ~ YED111 ~ 4000ED ~8101ED
WIGAN ~ EK6489
~ JEK999 ~ EEK250F
20.09.09.
Another, but more substantial,
archive update focusing primarily on Southport Fire Brigade and also includes
the former Birkdale Fire Brigade. Other additions are listed below,
including a very recent Firemaster picture.
BIRKDALE [SOUTHPORT]
~ FIRE STATION ~ STEAMER ~ HOSE CARRIAGE
BLACKLEY ~ 6900NF
BOOTLE ~
EEM47E
MACCLESFIELD
~ FMA210
SOUTHPORT
~ STEAMER ~ FY666 x2 ~ FY999 ~ WM2222 ~ WM9906 ~ EFY444 ~ GJJ33 ~ NYR296
~ NYR244 ~ OWM261 ~ BWM602B x2 plus 3 line ups.
18.09.09.
It's a little while since I had
a delve into the archives. I am indebted to Mr. J. Wilde, for two
pictures of the Dennis F7 at Ashton-under-Lyne,
and also a picture of the crews on parade. Mr. Wilde himself
features in a 1951 picture on the Ashton page. Also from Mr.
Wilde comes a picture of the former Tyldesley U.D.C. Dennis Light 4 which
has been added to the Atherton Library
page and a picture of a turntable ladder competition in 1953 on the Lancashire
Miscellaneous page.
17.09.09.
A new page has been created showing
a variety of emergency vehicles that attended the recent
Open Day at Northwich Fire Station. Appliance pictures
have also been updated on the Knutsford page.
Staying with Cheshire, I am once again most grateful to Barrie Green, this
time for pictures of one of the recently converted Rapid Response Units
which can be found on the Miscellaneous
page.
11.09.09.
This year's 'Indian' summer has
given me a good opportunity to update the appliance picture on the Horwich
page.
09.09.09.
The first new Rescue Pump for Merseyside
with bodywork by JDC arrived at Headquarters today and can be found on
the Merseyside Miscellaneous page.
Another new L4P 'up north' has been added to the Cumbria
Miscellaneous page along with revised pictures of two fire stations
due for replacement in the future ~ Carlisleand
Patterdale.
31.08.09.
A new page has been created for
a series of pictures of the superbly organised Open
Day at Irlam Fire Station, plus the appliances on the Broughton
page have been updated. The second appliance at Widnes
has also been updated.
28.08.09.
Apologies that it has actually
taken me four years to update the Malpas page.
24.08.09.
I have just completed a reasonably
quiet week as Duty Officer for the SACUs, with just two shouts in Blackburn
and Swinton and no pictures on this occasion. However, I am very
grateful to Barrie Greeen for pictures of Cheshire's 'pink' machine which
has been added to the Miscellaneous page
and also to Ken Brown for an updated picture at Formby.
15.08.09.
A new page has been created showing
a selection of vehicles attending the Birchwood
Open Day. Additionally, I have updated the appliance picture
on the Birchwood page, and added a couple
of new pictures of the Dennis F7 to the Chester
Library page.
13.08.09.
The first posting on the site of
pictures of the new Volvo Recovery Vehicle for Greater Manchester Fire
& Rescue Service have been added to the Leigh
T.S.C. page.
10.08.09.
I am most grateful to Paul Mclean
for a selection of pictures from the 12 pump incident at Spice
City Balti House in Liverpool last Saturday. Additionally, I
have updated appliance pictures on the Wallasey
and Whiston page.
06.08.09.
A selection of pictures from the
8 pump incident at the Pallet Yard
in Burnley in the early hours of today, along with some revised appliance
pictures on the Colne, Preston,
Hyndburn
and Bacup pages.
05.08.09.
All four new Volvos have now been
added to the Cumbria Miscellaneous page.
The picture of the second appliance at Skelmersdale
has been updated and the first away at Manchester
Central has also been revised.
03.08.09.
Two of the new Volvo FLs have been
added to the Cumbria Miscellaneous page.
Both new Foam Units for GMC have now been registered and pictures have
been included on the GMC Miscellaneous page
along with a picture of the two W reg GP lorries.
Pictures of the HPVs at Whitehill and Leigh
have also been updated.
A number of Cheshire appliance
pictures have been updated following the 8 pump fire at Over on a very
dull and wet Lammas Day.
CONGLETON ~ DG53JNZ
MACCLESFIELD
~ V667KMA
MIDDLEWICH ~ R45FMA
RUNCORN ~ Y495PTU
SANDBACH ~ R42FMA
I am very grateful to Ben Walton for a set of pictures of the major fire in South Shore last week, which concludes the present update.
30.07.09.
The night of 27/28 July saw two
major fires in the North West, 12 pumps plus specials in Warrington and
15 pumps plus specials in Blackpool. From these two shouts comes
a revised picture of the Control Unit at Northwich
and additional pictures of the HPV at Bolton Central.
29.07.09.
A routine update of appliance pictures
at Penwortham and Tarleton.
28.07.09.
My deepest sympathy to the firefighters
at Colne who responded to a Road Traffic Collision at the weekend and on
arrival found one of their colleagues was amongst three people who had
been fatally injured. Sincerest condolences to Tom's family and the
other families involved in this tragedy. R.I.P.
25.07.09.
With the importance of Community
Fire Safety being paramount, there have been a good number of Open Days
this year with the promise of several more still to come. Today's
Open
Day at Warrington featured a variety of appliances and exhibitions.
I have also updated the appliance pictures on the Birchwood
and Stockton Heath pages.
23.07.09.
A mixed bag of old and new, beginning
with 2 pictures of the 'missing' Bedford at Chadderton,
plus another picture of the E.T. there, all courtesy of Satis. Many
thanks to Keith Howarth for an updated picture of the Atego at Congleton,
plus an additional picture of the chip pan demonstrator which has been
added to the Cheshire Miscellaneous page.
Staying on the same page, a collection of pictures of Cheshire's new Community
Roadshow Vehicle have been added thanks to Barrie Green, along with one
of the new Motorway Accident Response Vehicles. Rounding off Barrie's
latest contributions and rounding off this update, pictures of the replacement
OSU have been added to the Winsford page.
16.07.09.
Another very welcome selection
of pictures from Neal Glover has been added on the following pages:
BARROW C.B. ~
KEO811J
BLACKBURN C.B.
~ NYV101
BLACKPOOL ~
RFV934X
BURY C.B. ~ UEN999L
CREWE ~ TLG887
GORTON ~ YVU133M
LANCASTER ~
STJ198L [with wheeled-escape]
MORECAMBE ~
UTE950L
PRESTON ~ NCK935X
WALLASEY ~ JHF707J
WEST KIRBY [HOYLAKE]
~ PMA817
12.07.09.
More historical pictures from two
brigades which rarely seem to get cover on these pages ~ the former Manchester
and Salford brigades, with thanks to Roger Simpson and to Merseyside F&RS.
BLACKLEY ~ N5978
~ 6900NF
BROUGHTON
~ XRJ538
GORTON ~ HORSE-DRAWN
~ SVU200
LONDON ROAD ~
HORSE-DRAWN ~ N5944 ~ N5951 ~ N5955 ~ VU8696 ~ XJ5492 ~ DVU785 ~ GLW426
~ WXJ286 ~ AVM3B
MOSS SIDE ~ BXJ500
~ JVU594F
PHILIPS PARK
~ NVR66 ~ FXJ944D ~ JVU593F
SALFORD ~
BA9335 ~ BRJ333 ~ FRJ928 ~ WRJ661 ~ MBA773F ~ SRJ999H ~ XBA327K
WITHINGTON
~ GNC800 ~ GNC800 with ONB876 ~ ONB876 ~ VND217
WYTHENSHAWE
~ TNE265 ~ UXJ695 ~ HXJ142F
11.07.09.
Another selection of very interesting
pictures from Satis including the two Bedfords at Irlam
in colour and intact, plus 4 additional pictures at Stretford
of 3541TD and RTE138C taken c.1968~1970 and the addition of T.L. BTB292E.
10.07.09.
This update introduces a further
3 new pages to the website. Firstly the Rochdale
Open Day held last Sunday; a page for the new USAR
vehicle for Greater Manchester including some 'locker' shots; and finally
I am pleased to be able to include a page specifically for the Greater
Manchetser Fire Service Museum at Rochdale.
08.07.09.
I am most grateful to Paul McLean
for an interesting set of pictures covering the Crane
Collapse in Liverpool earlier this week.
06.07.09.
A recent picture of the second
pump at Heywood has been added, along with the
new Volvos at Rochdale. The appliance pictures
at the four most northerly stations in Lancashire have all been updated
~ Bolton-le-Sands, Carnforth,
Silverdale
and Hornby.
02.07.09.
A night-time shot of the CSU from
Lancaster,
and an additional shot of the Great Harwood
appliance have been added following the 10 pump incident in Preston last
night. Unfortunately there was little supplementary light available
which made photography almost impossible. All pictures were taken
from outside the safety cordon.
27.06.09.
Congratulations to all at Farnworth
Fire Station for organising a superb open
day there today. With hundreds of visitors, hopefully a large
sum will have been raised for the Firefighters Charity.
26.06.09.
Another routine update but with
the odd little surprise, especially at Mossley Old Fire Station.
Thanks to Dave York one of the Merseyside pictures as indicated.
CROXTETH ~ J252KWM
KIRKBY ~ DK54HZB
x2
MANCHESTER CENTRAL ~
PN08UWW
MAPLE MILL
~ UPDATE
MERSEYSIDE MISCELLANEOUS
1 ~ YD54AUC ~ DK56JXF
MERSEYSIDE MISCELLANEOUS
2 ~ DK58HNG[DY] ~ DK58HNH
MERSEYSIDE T.D.A.
~ PM154
MOSSLEY ~ FIRE STATION
MOSSLEY LIBRARY PAGE
~ OLD FIRE STATION x2
19.06.09.
A great start to the weekend, with
another selection of excellent pictures from around 40 years ago from Satis.
MORECAMBE ~ 26CTB
RAINFORD ~ 279WTC
WHISTON ~ DTC927E
WIDNES ~ 276NTF
~ 576YTD
18.06.09.
A mill fire in Hopes
Carr, Stockport, and a selection of routinely updated appliance pictures
form this latest update, along with one of the new foam carriers for Lancashire.
BARNOLDSWICK ~ T131BCK
BLACKLEY ~ PN05EHB
BROUGHTON ~ PN05EHF
LANCASHIRE MISCELLANEOUS
~ T634JWB ~ PN09KNO x2
15.06.09.
Two more superb pictures from 1967
have been very kindly supplied by Satis, and show a pair of Karriers at
St.
Annes.
12.06.09.
A major exercise involving appliances
from Greater Manchester and Lancashire, plus the Mountain Rescue Service,
took place yesterday on the moors above Bolton. Accordingly, I have
been able to update a number of appliance pictures and I have also included
a special page for general shots of the
exercise rendezvous point plus some reserve appliances. Updates can
be found on the following pages:
AGECROFT ~ P21GNA ~ PN57AOZ
ATHERTON ~ MV54AYW
BOLTON CENTRAL ~ MH04FJA
BOLTON NORTH ~T271MBA
BURY ~ MF51EXO
CHORLEY ~ PJ52FMP
DARWEN ~ PL06OWA
FARNWORTH ~ PN57AOU
HINDLEY ~ PN05EHD
LEIGH ~ MW52UDY
11.06.09.
Pictures of one of the new foam
units and the new USAR vehicle have been added to the GMC
Miscellaneous page.
09.06.09.
A picture of Leyland-Daf 60 N171GCK
has been added to the Fulwood Library page.
Still playing catch-up, I have included an additional set of pictures from
the 22 pump incident on Trafford Park in September
2002, very kindly supplied by Carl Haslam.
04.06.09.
EXCLUSIVE: Cheshire
Fire & Rescue Service has just taken delivery of the world's largest
Dennis Sabre, which appears on the Cheshire
Miscellaneous page. Remember you saw it here first! Slightly
older, but just as welcome is another picture from Satis of a J4 on the
Stretford
Library page.
03.06.09.
Two more superb colour pictures
from 1970 have been very kindly donated by Satis UK. They include
the first picture on this site of one of the Bedford KELs at Horwich,
and the Busmar bodied Water Tender at Penwortham.
01.06.09.
I am grateful to Neal Glover for
a selection of pictures from the major fire at a Chicken
Factory in Morecambe on Spring Bank Holiday Monday. I have also
revised the station pictures on the Kendal and
Agecroftpages,
plus a revised appliance picture has been added to the Bolton
page.
23.05.09.
Two appliance pictures have been
revised on the Morecambe page.
22.05.09.
The four Daf55 series appliances
in Lancashire that are now in the reserve fleet have been added to the
Library page of their initial allocation, being Fulwood,Lancaster,
Blackpool
and Nelson. I have also added a link
from the Welcome page directly to the Incident
Library.
21.05.09.
Following a much quieter period
in the north-west, this update brings a mixed bag of old and new.
Many thanks to Barrie Green for a picture of the Chester
Water Incident Unit which has recently been reliveried. Thanks also to
Simon Rowley for current pictures of the former Leyland-Daf EST from Wigan
and a former TL from Carlisle. The
former GMC L4P which was converted to an LRV has been very kindly provided
by Terry Davies and appears on the Eccles Library
page.
08.05.09.
Updated pictures of both pumps
at Burnley have been added along with PM035.
A Ford Ranger picture has been added to the Lancashire
Miscellaneous page whilst preserved Dennis F26 NCB100 has been added
to the Blackburn C.B. Library page.
04.05.09.
It has been a busy Bank Holiday
weekend here in the North West, which has resulted in two nights with very
little sleep. It began with a MP5 in Miles Platting just east of
Manchester City Centre at about 2330 on Friday. Saturday morning,
just before dawn, it was MP8 in Little Lever, near Bolton, and then 0215
Sunday a MP10 in Runcorn, which subsequently went to MP15. Although
the lighting conditions were not conducive to decent photography in the
early hours, I am including pictures of both the Little
Lever and the Runcorn
incidents and a variety of updated appliance pictures on the following
pages:
AGECROFT ~ PN57AOZ
ATHERTON ~ MV54AYW ~
PN05EHE
AUDLEM ~ N712GFM [picture
transfer]
BOLTON ~ MH04FJA ~ MH04FJC
BOLTON NORTH ~ X594AVR
BROUGHTON ~ PN05EHG
BURY ~ MF51EXO
CHESTER ~ DK57GCX
CONGLETON ~ N709GFM
[picture transfer] ~ PM069 WX54VMV
CREWE ~ N707GFM~DA52YZF
x2 ~ DG53JNX
FARNWORTH ~ PN57AOU
~ PN57AOY
LEIGH ~ MV54AYU x2 ~
MW52UDY
MACCLESFIELD~
V896JMA
MANCHESTER CENTRAL ~
S981SDB
SALFORD ~ PF08SNX
SPEKE-GARSTON ~ DG02WFW
STOCKTON HEATH
~ DK08AHX
TARPORLEY ~ R43FMA
WHITEFIELD ~ PN57AOV
WINSFORD ~ DK57GCV
Omitted from the previous update
was a link to the Whitefield Library
page where Commer HY 344KTF has been added.
01.05.09.
More excellent images from the
late 1960s and early 1970s appear on the following Library pages:
ACCRINGTON ~
577YTD ~ ATB235A
ECCLES ~ WTF85L
LANCASHIRE MISCELLANEOUS~
ONE CONTROL UNIT AND THREE EMERGENCY TENDERS [one picture]
LITTLEBOROUGH
~ PTB140G
MOSSLEY ~ 348KTF
~ 351KTF
NELSON ~ 282NTF
NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS
~ 347KTF [colour]
WIDNES ~ LTJ858
Returning to the present day, an updated picture of the HPV at Whitehill has been added with thanks to Ken Savage, and many thanks also to Peter Weatherby for a picture of the Pleasureland fire in Southport recently.
28.04.09.
A number of appliance pictures
in the East Lancashire area have been updated and are available on the
Darwen,
Colne,
Blackburn,
Earby
and Nelson pages.
I am grateful as ever to Keith
Howarth for his continued unstinting support of this website, and I am
pleased to be able to include more recent shots on the Maple
Mill page.
27.04.09.
Three pictures dating back to September
1967 have been added to the Blackpool Fire
Brigade page.
26.04.09.
I am very grateful to Ken Savage
for an updated picture of the Chester ALP.
24.04.09.
Two additional black and white
pictures have been added to the Birkenhead
Library page, both having been taken exactly 40 years ago this month.
A recent picture of ex-Bury TL EN6080 has been added to the Bury
Library page.
22.04.09.
This update begins with revised
pictures on the Hindley and Wesham
page, along with pictures of the Dennis F46 on both the Lytham
and Lytham Library pages.
A new page has been created for
pictures of the 18 pumps + specials incident at Maple
Mill in Hathershaw.
14.04.09.
HAPPY EASTER! This
update begins with the 'missing' Volvo being added to the Manchester
Central Page. The arrival of Spring usually brings with it a
spate of grass fires and moorland fires. My first shout back
on the SACU took me to an 8 pump fire high on Saddleworth Moor on Easter
Monday. From that incident, revised pictures have been added
to the Ashton,
Philips Park,
Mossley,
Atherton
and
SACU pages.
04.04.09.
I am most grateful to Steve Miller
for more Cumbria pictures including new Land Rovers for Sedbergh
and Silloth. Although possibly not yet
on the run, I have put the pictures at the appropriate station with former
vehicles moved to the Library pages. A picture of the MRV at Workington
is also added. The Iveco, previously posted on that page, has now
been moved to its correct station, Carlisle,
with apologies for the error. Many thanks also to Dave
York for an updated picture of the Merseyside Land Rover which appears
on the Miscellaneous page. In the
near future, I will be creating a new page dedicated to the Marine Unit
where this vehicle will be based.
02.04.09.
Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service
now uses the National Call Sign system, as can be seen on one of the LFs
on the Preston page. There is no change
to the station numbers.
31.03.09.
Two more new Volvos have been added.
One appears on the Salford page, whilst the second
appliance for Rochdale has joined its future stable-mate on the Leigh
T.S.C. page.
It's a little while since I delved
into the archives. Thanks to Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service
and Roger Simpson, I am able to include a number of pictures from the former
Stockport Fire Brigade. With the exception of the Offerton picture,
I have placed all the others on the Whitehill page, in keeping with the
policy of placing former County Borough pictures at the Headquarters Station.
OFFERTON ~ STATION
OPENING 1972
WHITEHILL ~
JA7848 ~ DJA631 ~ EDB688 ~ JDB393 ~ YDB469 ~ JDB999E ~ UDB675J
28.03.09.
Following the demise of the last
Talbot 4x4 in GMC, pictures now appear on the Marple
Library page and the Bolton North Library
page. The final two new Volvo pumps will be going on the run
at Rochdale in the very near future. A picture of one has been added
to the Leigh T.S.C. page. Two pictures
of the Bedford TKG formerly based at Moreton, now appear on the Merseyside
Miscellaneous page.
20.03.09.
Whilst still taking advantage of
the spring sunshine, an updated appliance picture appears on the Whiston
page plus one on the Kirkdale page, and a fresh
picture of the Liverpool City Station has also
been added.
19.03.09.
Pictures of all the Heywood
appliances have been revised.
18.03.09.
The MAN at Warrington
has now been added. Thanks to Simon Ryan for a picture of Merseyside's
new SRT pod and Prime Mover which appears on the Croxteth
page.
17.03.09.
A revised picture of the 2nd appliance
at Darwen has been added, along with revised
pictures of Lancashire's off-road vehicle, which appear on the Miscellaneouspage
along with its transporter.
12.03.09.
Following a large fire on the Fylde
Coast this morning, a number of appliance pictures have been updated at
Blackpool,
South
Shore,
Bispham, and Fulwood.
An updated picture also appears on the Wesham
page, though not connected with the incident.
10.03.09.
Still in Merseyside, I am most
grateful to Frank Mullen for providing a set of pictures of a dramatic
house
fire in Anfield in 1989.
07.03.09.
The picture of the newer Scania
at St. Helens has been updated, as has that
of the IIT vehicle on the Merseyside Miscellaneous
page. Continuing with the Merseyside theme, I am indebted to
Keith Howarth for the supply of a large number of pictures following two
large exercises held in Kirkby and Seaforth recently. A new
page has been created for the USAR exercise
at Kirkby, whilst appliances attending at Seaforth are shown on their respective
station pages as shown below.
AINTREE ~ DK05HBE
ALLERTON ~ Y244XRN
BIRKENHEAD ~ K475OKB
~ L38SFY ~ L39SFY ~ DK55HNA
BOOTLE/NETHERTON
~ T657CCK ~ Y246XRN
CROSBY ~ Y242XRN
~ DK57FKZ
CROXTETH ~ DK57FKV
FORMBY ~ T662CCK
HUYTON ~ PN04KTF
KIRKBY ~ DK54HZB
~ DK57FLA
KIRKDALE ~ K946OHF
~ DG02WFZ ~ DK57FKW
LIVERPOOL CITY ~
DK05HBF
LOW HILL ~ DG02WFX
~ DK55HNC
MERSEYSIDE MISCELLANEOUS
~ YD54AUC ~ DK56JXF
OLD SWAN ~ PN04KTG
SPEKE/GARSTON ~ DG02WFW
TOXTETH ~ DK05HBD
WALLASEY ~ DK05HBO
~ DK05HBP
05.03.09.
Continuing the catch-up theme,
an additional picture of GJM447 has been added to the Kendal
Library page. A fourth page has been created for Leigh
T.S.C. with pictures from Manchester Airport during the trialling of
new foam making equipment.
04.03.09.
This update begins with me playing
'catch-up' again, with a number of pictures being added that have beeen
sent to me over the last year, beginning with a picture of the Dennis DJ
which has been added to the Salford City
Library page. From Westmorland comes a collection of pictures
of the 1943 Dodge from Windermere under
renovation. In service pictures of Dennis F12 PLV415 have been added
to the Hatton Garden page.
From the current scene, the second
new Volvo at Stretford has been added, plus also,
temporary pictures of the new Volvos at Ashton-under-Lyne.
Previous appliances have been moved to the respective library pages.
02.03.09.
Pictures have been added of the
two new Volvos now on the run at Heywood.
A couple of interesting pictures
of the Dennis RS at Hindley have been added
thanks to Steve Blackledge.
24.02.09.
An updated appliance picture appears
on the Chadderton page and the Rochdale
page.
16.02.09.
The B.A. unit has been added to
the Chorley page, whilst the preserved ex-West
Riding Dennis F46 now appears on the Lytham
Library Page
13.02.09.
Many thanks to Craig Howell the
new owner of DMB902X for a picture as it left Sandbach.
The Merseyside DIM Unit picture has been moved to the Bromboroughpage
following reallocation there.
10.02.09.
To help with finding old fire stations,
I have now included some former names along with current names in the various
Library Indexes. I would welcome information on any others that may
need amendment. A new Volvo has gone into service at Hollins,
whilst the Foam Tanker picture has been updated on the Cheadle
page. Another Volvo picture has been added to the Leigh
T.S.C. page.
06.02.09.
Another varied selection of pictures
begins with an updated picture of the Bolton Hydraulic
Platform, whilst on the Bolton Library page
there is a superb picture of the previous Hydraulic Platform which comes
courtesy of Keith Howarth. The picture of HPV TXJ647K with yellow
booms has been moved from Oldham Library to the Moss
Side Library page.
An additional picture has been
added to the Formby Library page, which has
previously been overlooked.
Many thanks to Major Tansley for
another couple of pictures for the SACU page.
I was delighted to be contacted
by Tony Foster who informed me that the ex-Bury Leyland Metz Turntable
Ladder [1935] is currently undergoing restoration in Northamptonshire.
Some pictures are included on the Bury C.B.
page.
Thanks also to Ken Brown for a
picture of the Penwortham appliance seen recently.
Back to the historical theme, many
thanks to Tony Kent for a picture of the old Derby Lane Fire Station in
Old
Swan.
Paul Warnock has again provided
some very interesting pictures, a Dodge appliance on the Manchester
Central and Moss Side Library pages
are included, but most especially one of the early Lancashire Bedford diesels
after to moving to Ireland, appears on the Bamber
Bridge Library page.
Finally, a link
has been added to Mike Hughes Action 'n' Emergency website.
04.02.09.
A revised appliance picture can
be found on each of the Gorton and Heywood
pages.
02.02.09.
Following two recent incidents,
firstly a flat fire in Warrington and a derelict
pub fire in Leigh, appliance pictures have been updated on the Ellesmere
Port,
Runcorn, Atherton,
Hindley,
Wigan,
Leigh
and Ashton-under-Lyne.
I am very grateful to Mr. Andrew
Entwistle of Hebden Bridge for a selection of photographs including the
'missing' Bedford TK from Chadderton
and a couple more pictures of the Simonitor there.
Thanks to Simon Ryan, I am able
to bring more updates from Merseyside, where two hose-layer pods have recently
arrived plus a new Land Rover L4V, all of which are on the Merseyside
Miscellaneous page.
28.01.09.
An updated appliance picture has
been added to the Moss Side page, being the first
picture to be included of one of the new Volvos at work.
27.01.09.
Every good wish to Watch Manager
Mark Hopton, of Red Watch at Bispham, who has
retired today and kindly provided a picture of their pump. All the
very best, Mark.
25.01.09.
For ease of navigation, a new page
has been created for all the Salvation Army Catering
Units. Included are unique pictures showing all four vehicles
together for the first time.
23.01.09.
Further information has been added
regarding BBU999J on the Oldham C.B. page
and also more information on N657YNC on the Hollins
Library page. This information has come direct from GMF&RS
and is most gratefully received. The picture of the first appliance
at Bamber Bridge has been updated along with
that of the ALP at Preston.
22.01.09.
A return to the historical theme
with a number of pictures added to the Oldham
C.B. page as listed below, plus a picture of the old Werneth Fire Station
has been added to the Hollins Library page.
BU150 ~ ABU980 ~ FBU760 ~ FYH95 ~ GLE408 ~ GXA791 ~ JBU510 ~ MBU130 ~ BBU999J ~ DBU999K
17.01.09.
A further 3 new Volvos have been
added on the Salford, Manchester
Central and Stretford pages. Updated
appliance pictures also appear on the Stretford
and Agecroft pages. Previous generation
Volvos have been moved to the respective library pages. Note that for the
time being only one pump is shown on the S16/W58 pages. They do,
however, remain 2 pump stations.
14.01.09.
A new appliance picture has been
added to the Mossley page.
13.01.09.
The latest restoration pictures
of PLV415 have been added along with
a couple of new GMC Volvos which have been added to the Leigh
T.S.C. page.
12.01.09.
An updated picture of the Water
Tender at Morecambe and Vauxhall Vivaro PG04ZZY
has moved to the Lancashire Miscellaneouspage
where it can be seen in its former and current guises.
07.01.09.
Back to the historical theme, and
an additional picture of Karrier 402ATC has been added to the Hindley
Library page. A further batch of pictures, predominantly
from Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service has been added as listed below.
BOOTLE ~ LINE-UP
x4 ~ HORSE DRAWN APPLIANCES x5 ~ EM110 x2 ~ EM919 ~ EM2379 ~ EM3082 ~ EM4617
~ KEM90J x2
BURNLEY ~ MCW976
~ MHG1 ~ PCW1 ~ AHG1B x2
BURY ~ EN12 ~ EN6080
~ EN6831 ~ HEN999 ~ UEN999L
04.01.09.
I was privileged last October to
be invited to Leigh T.S.C. for the handing over ceremony of the 17 new
JDC bodied appliances. Unfortunately, I missed the appointment due
to my unexpected trip into hospital. I am, therefore, extremely grateful
to Neville Heywood of Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service for
a selection of photos of that event, which now appear on the T.S.C.
page.
The Links
page has been revised with 5 defunct links removed. If you had a
link that is now missing, please contact me with the revised URL.
02.01.09.
The first pictures of two of the
new GMC Volvos in service, are now on the Moss Side
page.
01.01.09.
I would like to take this opportunity
to wish all visitors to this web site a very Happy and Peaceful 2009.
Once again there has been substantial
growth on the site throughout 2008 with over 1,000 pictures added.
There are now nearly 600 pages to browse. Thank you very much indeed
to all who support this site and especially to those who have so willingly
shared their pictures. As ever, I have received much help and support
for the various Fire and Rescue Services in the North West and again I
offer my sincere thanks to you all. And so to 2009..........