| Name: | Darlaston old fire station 1 |
| Address: | Crescent Road |
| Town: | Darlaston |
| Brigade: | West Midlands |
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| Year Range: |
1896-c1945 |
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Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude: | 52.568483 North
02.033417 West |
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| Further Information/ Provenance: | |
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Darlaston/TwentythCentury.htm
http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/Darlaston/TwentythCentury.htm
Shown on 1903 1:2500 OS map, still on 1918 1:2500 OS map, still on 1938 1:2500 OS map
Terry Smitheman (Darlaston Remembers)
- The station was built in 1896 at a cost of £90. It consisted of the engine house, which first housed a manual pump, and a small room with an open fire to dry the uniforms. Darlaston Fire Brigade was absorbed into the National Fire Service in WWII and in 1942 a new Fire Station was built in Richards St. The old station housed a towed pump until the end of the war, the car was kept in the yard. After Staffordshire Fire Brigade took control it reverted to Darlaston council and performed a variety of uses by the UDC and later Walsall MBC
Terry Smitheman
- part of roof collapsed in early June 2017
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