BOURNEMOUTH FIREMEN AT WAR
Written by Ted Hughes
Published by Dorset Publishing Company
in 1991
ISBN: 0948699094
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- DORSET
- WORLD WAR II
- FIRE ENGINES
- FIRE SERVICE
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Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- A new kind of service
- Memorable fires
- Emergency ambulance service
- The Brigade expands
- Fire cover - new resources
- The looming catastrophe
- A plan for action
- The drive for recruits
- The Phoney War - Bournemouth prepares
- Air Raid Warnings 'Red', Jerry overhead - Bournemouth hit
- The Blitz assessed
- Public involvement
- More bombs on Bournemouth
- End of the old Brigade
- The National Fire Service
- Local N.F.S. in action - the Sunday Blitz
- The final scene