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Description: | In 1862 a biscuit factory fire engine attended a drapery shop fire in the Market Place, showing that the factory had its own fire precautions in place. In 1871 Alfred Palmer formalised arrangements and set up the factory fire brigade. The brigade consisted of over 100 men recruited from every department. The factory had an alarm system, hose reels, hydrants and booster pumps and small gear. Long service within the fire brigade was likely as many employees worked for the firm for over 50 years. Indeed an article which appeared in the Daily Mail in February 1914 details how over 50 employees within the firm had completed over 50 years service each and another 1,000 of the men had each completed between 30 and 50 years service. | 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 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers Fire Brigade | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | commemoratives W.J. Clark social history trade event working life fire services | Temporal: | start=1928-01-01; end=1928-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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