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Description: | Photograph of a fire engine being cleaned outside the Alton Fire Station. The building on the left is Westbrook House built in the 1730s and in turn a charity school, a private lunatic asylum from 1833 to 1912, a billet for soldiers during the First World War then in 1919 a Young Men's Christian Association centre. In 1930 the Alton Urban District Council bought the premises and it was used as Local Government offices until 1976. The building in the right, the Fire Station, had been part of Westbrook House that was demolished by the local authority to widen Cross and Pillory Lane and then rebuilt as a Fire Station. The Fire Service moved into this new building in 1934 from their previous premises on the lower floor of the Town Hall and from here they moved to their purpose built station in Butts Road in October 1981.
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Hawkins, C. W. 1988 And Still We Serve 0951352911 | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Margaret Smith | Subjects: | work building fire station Westbrook House fireman fire engine Alton Fire Station | Temporal: | start=1981-01-01; end=1981-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Margaret Smith | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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