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Name:Brighton old fire station 02
Address:1A-2 Wyndham Street
Town:Brighton
Brigade:East Sussex
Postcode:
  
Year Range: 1866-?
  
Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude:
50.819813 North
00.128892 West
     
Further Information/ Provenance: 


http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__8084.aspx
- incorrectly states building on Wyndham Street/St James Street as fire station

Kelly's Directory 1867
- "Corporation Fire Brigade & Engine House, New Road, William Thos. Quartermain, inspector; & engine houses, 115 Western Road & Grafton Street"


http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__8122_path__0p114p421p726p.aspx
- by 1860s, engine and escape kept here

https://www.brightonhistory.org.uk/streets/streets_w.html
- 1A-2 Wyndham Street, the old fire station, was built 1865-66 to a red-brick gothic design by Brighton architect/surveyor I Johnson for Henry Hill, a plaque dating the building to 1866, and converted for use as a fire station c1900. Grade II listed [believe this description was not fire station]

Post Office directory [date unknown, page 2850]
- Fire Engine Houses & Police Stations, Grafton Street & West Hill Road
 
 
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