| Name: | Oswestry old fire station 2 |
| Address: | Horse Market |
| Town: | Oswestry |
| Brigade: | Shropshire |
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| Year Range: |
1901-? |
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Unconfirmed
Latitude/Longitude: | 0.000000 North
00.000000 East |
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Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913, page 178
- Erected 1901. Steamer, manual and hose cart
Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913, page 181
- gives address as 'Hire Market'
Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913, page 186
- gives address as 'Horsemarket'
Not marked on available maps July 2012 - several long buildings close to castle that might have been fire station. Need confirmation
http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4594244/4594252/109/
- Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register 24/02/1900: the old fire station was pulled down when the present municipal buildings were erected, and since then the fire extinguishing apparatus belonging to the town had been housed in the market premises. The council now proposed to erect a station on the site of the existing stables, which were to be removed to another part of the town
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