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Name:Wells old fire station 2
Address:Market Place
Town:Wells
Brigade:Somerset
Postcode:
  
Year Range: ?-1937?
  
Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude:
51.209090 North
02.644597 West
           
Further Information/ Provenance: 

Hunt & Co.'s Directory of Dorset, Hants, Wilts, Som, 1851, p97
Kelly's Directory of Somerset, 1897, p442
Kelly's Directory of Somerset, 1889, p396
Kelly's Directory of Somerset, 1902, p457
Kelly's Directory of Somerset, 1914, p492
Kelly's Directory of Somerset, 1919, p467

Shown on 1886 1:500 OS map, still on 1930 1:2500 OS map


http://www.wells.gov.uk/index.php?page=history
- From 1923 until 1937, the city’s fire station was close by, housed in the south end of what was built as the Market House (now the Post Office and ‘Ask’ restaurant). [dates don't tie up with 1886 map or Kelly's]
 
 
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