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Fire Station Details - Kettering old fire station 4

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Name:Kettering old fire station 4
Address:The Yards, Market Street
Town:Kettering
Brigade:Northamptonshire
Postcode:
  
Year Range: 1926-1955?
  
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Latitude/Longitude:
52.398531 North
00.727077 West
              
Further Information/ Provenance: 

https://www.facebook.com/oldkettering/photos/a.337162489695736.78282.111652805580040/829741677104479/?type=3
- The building with two sets of double-doors was purpose-built in October 1926 as a replacement for Kettering's former fire station at the top of Market Street. It boasted a garage for two engines, a bathroom, recreation room, workshop and drill tower and was the brigade's base until the present headquarters in Headlands opened in 1955. Three years later it re-opened as the town's ambulance station, pictured here in 1973,
 
 
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