Fire Brigade 2
A typical incident
The notebooks of local reporter J.W. Newell (whose family were well known local shopkeepers), record a typical fire of the kind attended by the horse-drawn, hand-pumped appliance shown in the photograph on the previous page
the notebook of
J.W. Newell by kind
permission of Mrs
Cherry Leversedge
The report (submitted to the Western Mail) reads as
follows:
"About 2am P.C. Price discovered that a rick of hay,
belonging to Mr W.H. Weaver of the Barley Mow was on fire in
the yard adjoining the Railway Station. Luckily there was no
wind stirring or the fire would have proved disastrous by igniting
the other stacks. Although the rick was literally enveloped in
flame, thanks the V.F. [Volunteer Fire] Brigade, with
the two engines, the fire was eventually extinguished. It is
supposed that the hay caught fire owing to its having been insufficiently
made.
Oct. 4. 1880"
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