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Subject: Fire Station Author: Bill Smaje [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 05:44:36 02/09/03 Sun do any ex spekites remember the fire station in West Speke it was situated in All Saints Road, near All Saints Church,Also the first police station was also in All Saints Road, it was in the garage of one of the houses,Remember queing at Nursalls in the Crescent on a Sunday morning for cigarettes, sometimes you would be unlucky and get Pasha (Yuk)I have some information on recent happenings in Speke, I will divulge this at a later date. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Fire Station Author: No name [Edit] Date Posted: 19:25:38 04/19/03 Sat My wife remembers this well. Her dad (Jack Graham) was an officer in the fire brigade although he was stationed in Rootes factory. They lived at 11 Hale Road. Small World We left Speke 1948 and now live in Vancouver. CAN >do any ex spekites remember the fire station in West >Speke it was situated in All Saints Road, near All >Saints Church,Also the first police station was also >in All Saints Road, it was in the garage of one of the >houses,Remember queing at Nursalls in the Crescent on >a Sunday morning for cigarettes, sometimes you would >be unlucky and get Pasha (Yuk)I have some information >on recent happenings in Speke, I will divulge this at >a later date. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Fire Station Author: Tom [Edit] Date Posted: 13:54:28 05/03/03 Sat To the lady living in Vancouver ....from 11 Hale Road....Did your dad also have the chip van which used to be parked on Blackrod Avenue during the 1950's ....did you also have a brother named David.......I used to know the Graham family on Hale Road....an even smaller world....I now live in Ontario. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Fire Station Author: Tom [Edit] Date Posted: 11:27:20 09/22/05 Thu >My wife remembers this well. Her dad (Jack Graham) >was an officer in the fire brigade although he was >stationed in Rootes factory. They lived at 11 Hale >Road. Small World >We left Speke 1948 and now live in Vancouver. CAN > >>do any ex spekites remember the fire station in West >>Speke it was situated in All Saints Road, near All >>Saints Church,Also the first police station was also >>in All Saints Road, it was in the garage of one of the >>houses,Remember queing at Nursalls in the Crescent on >>a Sunday morning for cigarettes, sometimes you would >>be unlucky and get Pasha (Yuk)I have some information >>on recent happenings in Speke, I will divulge this at >>a later date. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Fire Station Author: ALAN BLACKMORE [Edit] Date Posted: 14:35:33 05/21/03 Wed >do any ex spekites remember the fire station in West >Speke it was situated in All Saints Road, near All >Saints Church,Also the first police station was also >in All Saints Road, it was in the garage of one of the >houses,Remember queing at Nursalls in the Crescent on >a Sunday morning for cigarettes, sometimes you would >be unlucky and get Pasha (Yuk)I have some information >on recent happenings in Speke, I will divulge this at >a later date. Right ..the police station was based in the first garage house in ALL SAINTS ROAD.... I think it's No.20. The family who lived there were the MILLERS. Ted miller was himself a policeman and they moved later in life to RUNCORN new town. I presume their son JOHN still lives there. The fire station was right opposite our house No 21 ALL SAINTS RD. It was made of wood and corrugated iron. At the back were the recreation[billiards]and sleeping quarters ..basically " huts". The first house No 10[I think].. was the mess/dining area ... later the WILLIAMS family lived there when the new station opened at CONLEACH RD. We used to play on the engines and I remember one incident when the fire engine was called out.We were playing on the 10 Tonner when we saw one of the firemen returning on foot to pick the waggon up as it contained extra hoses which they must have needed ..we panicked and hid in the back and off we went..My DAD realised what had happened and followed on his motorbike ..he managed to flag it down on the Dunlop Rd...and out we got!!! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Fire Station Author: Geoff Dearden [Edit] Date Posted: 12:09:45 06/01/05 Wed >Hi Bill, I remember the fire station well, and the EWS tank opposite, so that they could store the water to put the fires out that Adolf's men started. Remember the houses that were bombed in Western Avenue, where we all went out to see the damage. Many nights spent sheltering under the stairs. More importantly, I remember you at Stocktonwood Road School; teachers, Wade, Singleton, Perkins, Cresswell et al. We lived in the bottom half of Greyhound Farm Road from 1942 to 1951 when we moved to a sleepy village called Halewood....Not so sleepy now. Mind you Speke has changed a bit since. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]