| Name: | Truro old fire station 2 |
| Address: | City Hall, Boscawen Street |
| Town: | Truro |
| Brigade: | Cornwall |
| Postcode: | TR1 2LL |
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| Year Range: |
1846-? |
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Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude: | 50.262605 North
05.050586 West |
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| Further Information/ Provenance: | |
http://www.hallforcornwall.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=41238
Kelly's Directory of Devon & Cornwall, 1914, p356
- Market Hall under Town Hall and basement forms a general market. Here also is the Fire Brigade Station with an entrance in Market Strand.
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO54287&resourceID=1020
- integral to Town Hall, on right hand side on Boscawen Street entrance. Part of Truro City Volunteer Fire Brigade, founded in 1868
"The History of Truro Fire Brigade" by Rodney Smith
- In 1868 Truro Volunteer Brigade was formed and had 2 fire engines and an escape housed in a station in St Marys Street. The brigade moved its premises firstly to the Town Hall, and in 1882 a new fire station was opened in High Cross
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