| Name: | Ilfracombe old fire station 2 |
| Address: | Wilder Road |
| Town: | Ilfracombe |
| Brigade: | Devon |
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Unconfirmed
Latitude/Longitude: | 51.205962 North
04.126672 West |
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Need confirmation that building still standing was originally fire station (then possibly police station?)
Shown on 1932 1:2500 OS map
"Kelly's Directory" - 1914 Devon, p354
Kelly's Directory of Devon, 1919, p332
http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3263812/3263815/45/
- Evening Express 30/07/1896: "Our headquarters are at the fire station in Wilder-road, where everything is kept except the fire escape, is located on the market property in Wilder-road. There are three telephonic fire alarms one at the Town-hall, one at Larkstone-terrace, and one at the Royal Brittanria Hotel, with an alarm outside." [not known if this was an earlier fire station in Wilder Road or the one shown on the 1932 map]
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