Wickwar New Fire StationWickwar is a town developed during the 1950s and received it's first fire station in 1957. This was crewed by retained firemen and until early 1982 was allocated one water tender and one Land Rover. In late 1981 it was decided to build a new station that had room for expansion, at that point the Land Rover was long wheelbase series III RYD960K and the water tender was Bedford TK Carmichael WrL CYC130R. The new fire station opened in January 1982 and at this point the Land Rover was moved to Kingsdon. The Bedford stayed at Wickwar and can be seen inside the station. The Dennis F12 is preserved by Wyvern Fire Brigade. It was at Wickwar at the time of this photo because the Daughter of one of the firemen based at Wickwar was getting married and the Dennis was needed for "Limousine Duty".
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The fire station is the Bachman Scenecraft model released in July 2010 and replaces the model I built from a Superquick kit (a photo of the origional station is on this site). The Bedford is an Oxford diecast model I have tweaked while the Dennis is a Corgi Trackside model that has also had some modifications.
Picture added on 31 July 2010 at 19:46
Added by George Illingworth on 01 August 2010.