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Name:Truro old fire station 1 site
Address:St Georges Road
Town:Truro
Brigade:Cornwall
Postcode:
  
Year Range: 1944-1969 (demolished)
  
Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude:
50.265729 North
05.061309 West
     
Further Information/ Provenance: 

Plotted from 1964/1967 1:2500 OS map, still on 1971/1973 1:10000 OS map, not on 1971/1976 1:2500 OS map


http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO54290&resourceID=1020
- National Fire Service Staion and HQ was located at Dreadnought (now Hendra) Park on St George's Road from 1939. It effectively incoporated the Truro Brigade and was itself superceded by the new County Brigade, later to the rear of Old County Hall, Truro in October 1969

"The History of Truro Fire Brigade" by Rodney Smith
- New premises were built in St Georges Road in 1944
 
 
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