Hay British Infants School 9
Christening the fire engine,
1901
A particularly interesting reason for missing school lessons appears in the records of the Infants Department of the British School at Hay, as noted in the School Log Books, in 1901.
Hay British
Infants School
Log Book
Powys
County Archives
B/E/PS/36/L/1
"Owing to a procession of the Fire brigade, and the christening of the new fire engine, very few children presented themselves on Thursday afternoon - they were dismissed".
This was when the volunteer fire brigade in Hay proudly acquired a new steam-powered fire engine to replace their earlier horse-drawn appliance.
kind permission of
Eric Lewis Pugh
of Hay
The
new engine, like the previous one, was called 'Firefly', and
in the photograph on the left, possibly taken on the same day,
local children can be seen posing alongside the Hay firemen and
their smart new fire engine.
