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Museum Collection: Fire Brigade
Bradford on Avon Museum, Wiltshire
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Helmets of the Bradford on Avon Fire Brigade, Wiltshire County Fire Brigade, cap of the County Brigade and a fireman’s axe
Bradford on Avon Museum holds items, including photographs, relating to two former members of the town’s fire brigade: Willson Moore and Sid Jones.
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Cap badges from the Bradford branch of the National Fire Service, which operated during the Second World War
A badge that would have been sewn on to the uniform of a member of the Bradford Auxiliary Fire Service which served at the beginning of the war and again in the Cold War period, 1948-1968
A cap badge from the Wiltshire County Fire Brigade, which came into being in 1948
An axe was an essential part of a fireman’s equipment and uniform. It hung, in a leather cover, from the belt
Before radio pagers and mobile phones the way to call out firemen to attend a fire was by an electric bell connected to the telephone wires