Fire Engine 'Catherine' with Crew, Stafford Fire Brigade

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Date:1913

Description:This photograph shows Stafford Fire Brigade with the motor fire engine named 'Catherine', possibly Stafford's first, manufactured by Leyland. Alfred Ernest Haywood, later Chief Officer, is at the wheel. His younger brother Thomas Edwin is the second fireman from the left standing on the engine, and Corporal J. Thorpe is the third fireman from the left standing on the ground.


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1600s
Scold's bridle
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1840s
Broadsheet  - Staffordshire Lent Assizes, 1845
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1880s
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
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1910s
Turner & Co., late Brookfields, Greengate Street, Stafford
Turner & Co., late Brookfields, Greengate Street, Stafford

When Brookfields department store closed in 1909 James Turner, one of the store's ...

1930s
Auxiliary Fire Service lapel badge
Auxiliary Fire Service lapel badge

The Auxiliary Fire Service was created in July 1938 to assist the Fire Brigade ...

1960s
Greengate Street, Stafford
Greengate Street, Stafford

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1980s
Midland Red Bus in Stafford
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2010s
Market Square, Stafford
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Image courtesy of: Mr Ajay Tegala

Donor ref:AHT-006 (37/45781)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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