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Old 24-06-2012, 15:58   #1
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accrington fire station engines

came across this link to the old accy fire engines if you remember these on the streets of accrington of yesterdays gone by.typical google couldnt find what i was after to post but oh well just doing my bit for accy webs. click the accrington word below.

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Old 24-06-2012, 16:20   #2
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Retlaw will probably worked a few of them, The older uns that is.
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Old 24-06-2012, 19:04   #3
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Retlaw will probably worked a few of them, The older uns that is.
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The Turntable Ladder is a Metz on a Leyland chassis, bought by Accy Corporation in 1938, taken over by Lancashire when the County
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The next T.L. was a Merry Weather on a Leyland chassis powered by a Meadows engine. The 577 YTD Emergency Tender we called it the bread van, I've operated all the Escapes & Water Tenders, then the first Hydraulic Platform up until 1983. Its surprising how many of the registration plate numbers I'd forgotten. Bit sad to see them in scrap yards rusting away, especially after all the hours we spent keeping them gleaming.

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Old 25-06-2012, 16:48   #4
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I remember the 50s-style fire engines at Oswaldtwistle Fire Station when I was a child. The siren used to sound and the firemen would run out of their houses, sometimes in slippers. As the appliance left the station they were scrambling on board and quickly pulling on their uniforms over their clothes. It used to seem so exciting!
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Old 25-06-2012, 19:54   #5
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I was at the station 1964-69 and if I remember the pump and pump escape had the A prefix's
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Old 03-08-2012, 13:52   #6
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Was at accy fire station driven 557ytb and atb234 and 235 a many times great days retired now
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Old 26-02-2014, 23:16   #7
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Where is the engine in the first pic now?
Does somebody own it? Was it crushed?? ??
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Old 27-02-2014, 11:20   #8
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Where is the engine in the first pic now?
Does somebody own it? Was it crushed?? ??
Probably parked up on double yellow lines on Blackburn Rd where nobody will have noticed it for 50 years
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Old 27-02-2014, 11:31   #9
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Does somebody own it? Was it crushed?? ??
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