| Name: | Kettering old fire station 1 site |
| Address: | Market Street |
| Town: | Kettering |
| Brigade: | Northamptonshire |
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| Year Range: |
?-1926? (demolished) |
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Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude: | 52.398368 North
00.726062 West |
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| Further Information/ Provenance: | |
Kelly's Directory of Beds, Hunts & Northants, 1898, p109 & p116
Kelly's Directory of Beds, Hunts & Northants, 1903, p115
Shown on 1886 1:500 OS map, still on 1900 1:2500 OS map, still on 1926 1:2500 OS map, building still shown on 1958 1:10560 OS map but not annotated as fire station
http://forebears.co.uk/england/northamptonshire/kettering
- The fire-engine house is in Market street; there is one steam fire-engine and a manual engine; the building includes a house for the caretaker.
Https://www.facebook.com/oldkettering/photos/pb.111652805580040.-2207520000.1408480455./683062801772368/?type=1&theater
- Opened 22/10/1926 [Doesn't tie up with buildings shown on maps] One engine, was previously housed at Robinson's Garage in Montagu Street while the other was in the playground of the Boys National School (later Parish Church School) in Horsemarket. The building later became the town's ambulance station, followed by the Oasis Centre and Citizen's Advice Bureau.
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