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Title: Fire Brigade drill, 1909 [Go to resource]
Description: This photograph was published in a Reading Standard article about the brigade on 30 October 1909. Gasworks Road was a private road that ran through the southern part of the Biscuit Factory to the Reading Gas Company's gasworks. The gas company bought its 13-acre site from William Isaac Palmer in 1880. You can see the huge gasholders in the distance. To the right is the chimney of Blake's Lock sewage pumping station that was built in 1870. The four storey buildings fronting this road were some of tallest in the factory, housing fitting and joinery workshops. The brigade was clearly well equipped with extendable ladders that were able to reach the tops of these buildings. 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: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: ladder
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fire servicesTemporal: start=1909-10-01; end=1909-10-31; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: S.Victor White Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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