Former Fire Station

Plaque number 41 can be found at this location.







Plaque Number 41

Plaque Location

The plaque can be found above the doorway on the corner of Salt Lane and Endless Street.
The O/S grid position is SU 14505 East 30156 North.

Plaque Text

MCMXXXV (1935)

Further Plaque Details

Social services currently (2008) occupy most of the premises of the former fire station.
The large doors, behind which the fire engines were stationed, are still in place.
A more interest plaque is currently covered by a blanking plate above the doorway in Salt Lane.

Plaque Photograph


Former Fire Station opening


A hidden plaque!

Above one of the former fire station doorways along Salt Lane, there is a hidden plaque. When the new fire station was opened, this plaque was covered up. There were proposals to re-site this plaque to the new fire station.
In the Salisbury and District Directory 1897-8 by Langmead and Evans, Salisbury reference library number SAL916 82873, Bar Code 1 578992 000, there is reference to:

Salt Lane - (South Side).
From No 12, Endless street
Clark, G., coachbuilder
The City Volunteer Fire Brigade, Hobbs, Herbert, station keeper
Waterworks Stores
George, Ed. corn stores
Here is Rollestone-street.
...
...
(North Side).
33 Hobbs, Herbert, resident fireman and station keeper

Thus the Fire Brigade have been in Salt Lane long before 1935!

Former Fire Station opening





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