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Fire Station Details - Newport (IOW) old fire station 1

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Name:Newport (IOW) old fire station 1
Address:The Guildhall, High Street/Quay Street
Town:Newport
Brigade:Isle of Wight
Postcode:
  
Year Range: ?-?
  
Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude:
50.700392 North
01.293281 West
     
Further Information/ Provenance: 

Simon Adamson
- station occupied 2 of 3 arches of the Guildhall

Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorset, 1875, p285
- gives address as Quay Street

Not marked on available maps May 2011

Damon Corr
- during the Second World War Newport Fire Brigade had vacated the Guildhall and found themselves temporarily homeless
 
 
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