Norwich Fire Service

Fire service 00 [ Map 1899 to 1934 ]

Fire service 01 [ Map after 1934 ]

Fire service 02 [ Pottergate: Fire station entrance, Fireman’s quarters, Bethel Street site (March 1933) ]

During the latter part of the 19th century the municipal fire engine was kept at the Guildhall below the old Sheriff’s Office. With the increase in size of engines and other equipment more commodious accommodation was needed, and in 1899 a transfer was made to the premises in Pottergate.

Fire service 03 [ Bethel Street site (March to July 1933) ]

Fire service 04 [ Bethel Street site (September to November 1933) ]

Fire service 05 [ Bethel Street site (November to December 1933) ]

Fire service 06 [ Bethel Street site (January 1934) ]

Fire service 07 [ Bethel Street site (May to October 1934 ]

Fire service 08 [ Bethel Street site (November 1934) ]

The new building, erected to the design and under the supervision of Mr Stanley G.Livock, F.R.I.B.A., a Norwich architect, was completed at a cost of about £33,000 by Simms Son and Cooke of Nottingham, and includes on the north side, offices of the City Weights and Measures department. It was officially opened on 8th November 1934 by the Lord Mayor Mr F.C.Jex when it was described as “one of the largest and best equipped fire stations in the country”, the old premises being referred to as “a disgrace and reproach to the city for many years”.

Fire service 09 [ Civic week June 1955 ]

Fire service 10 [ Civic week June 1955 ]

Norwich Civic week 18th - 25th June 1955, one of the more popular features of which was a fire display, twice daily, in front of the City Hall... Two fire engines arrive and the escape ladder is run up... a dummy is lowered from the escape ladder by rope... the ambulance arrives and stretcher bearers stand by ready to receive the “casualty”... who is then carried away... hoses are connected to the fire tender... firemen play their hoses to extinguish the flames... the escape ladder is lowered.

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