Name: | Muswell Hill/Fortis Green old fire station 2 site |
Address: | Fortis Green |
Town: | Hornsey |
Brigade: | London |
Postcode: | |
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Year Range: |
?-1963? (demolished) |
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Confirmed Latitude/Longitude: | 51.591088 North 00.150671 West |
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Further Information/ Provenance: | |
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22526&strquery=%22fire%20station%22
- closed when current station opened
Michael Bissett-Powell
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=13161&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2=
- Ex Middlesex FB. A Division
Peter Saunders
- 1 Dennis Rolls PE & 1 Emergency ambulance available until 2200 hrs. Single storey with watch-room alongside appliance bay with staff dormitory at rear. Staff showers/toilets and dining area in yard at rear. This station due to it being the highest latitude in the county also had a main transmitter aerial in rear yard. Also at rear bottom of yard were old firemen's cottages.
UK Fire Stations Past/Present Open/Closed FB group
- Roger Parncutt: Muswell Hill station closed 1926 and subsequently demolished, when a new station opened in nearby Fortis Green
Shown on 1935 1:2500 OS map
Fire Cover 200, page 38
- Priory Road [Park Avenue South] replaced Hornsey & Fortis Green stations prior to GLC taking over Middlesex FB in 1965 |
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