| Name: | Twyford (BKS) old fire station 1 site |
| Address: | High Street?/Wargrave Road |
| Town: | Twyford |
| Brigade: | Berkshire |
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| Year Range: |
1902-? (demolished) |
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Confirmed
Latitude/Longitude: | 51.477576 North
00.867212 West |
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| Further Information/ Provenance: | |
Kelly's Directory of Berkshire, 1899, p226
- no address given
Kelly's Directory of Reading, 1914, p485
- no address given
Kelly's Directory of Berkshire, 1915, p249
- no address given
Shown on 1932 1:2500 OS map
http://www.trlhs.org.uk/
- In 1902 a property was leased from Simond’s Brewery at the corner of Wargrave Road Bell Corner, previously a blacksmiths, which was turned into the new Twyford Fire Station. [website has picture taken 1903] Twyford retained its own fire engine up until 1945, when cover was then provided by Sonning and Wargrave engines.
Simond’s & Lawence (Parkers) Estate Agents now stands on this site at the new Bell Corner.
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