| Name: | Builth Wells old fire station |
| Address: | Smithfield Road |
| Town: | Builth Wells |
| Brigade: | Mid & West Wales |
| Postcode: | LD2 3AN |
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Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude: | 52.147733 North
03.404800 West |
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http://www.websites.welshhome.net/builth/town.html
- A fire service started probably in the early 1890s, but for some odd reason, probably financial, it appears it was disbanded, to cost the town dear when a fire broke out, and neighbouring brigades arrived too late to save considerable damage. In 1910 a fire engine was purchased, hauled by a steam lorry (though one fireman from the AFS told me it was hauled by horses kept in a field at the old brewery), and this was in use until 1941! Pictures show the engine outside the old fire station in Smithfield Road.
Originally Brecon & Radnorshire Joint FB
Not shown on available maps December 2016
http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4012748/4012751/53/
- The Amman Valley Chronicle and East Carmarthen News 28/05/1914: Cllr Price had visited Builth fire station [so it existed in 1915, but not known if it was this building or an earlier one]
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