Hampton Fire Station in Thames Street
Hampton Fire Station in Thames Street
Record No
164774
Title
Hampton Fire Station in Thames Street
Description
This view shows the old fire station at 42 Thames Street in the Hampton Village conservation area of Richmond-upon-Thames. Listed locally as a Building of Townscape Merit, it came into service in 1898 and is now used as the offices of BPS Broadcast and Production Services. Hampton's Volunteer Fire Brigade was formed in 1885 by Robert Graham (1845-1922), a sportsman and businessman who served as the brigade's captain for thirty-six years. The brigade and the fire station can be seen in action filmed as a staged fire at the nearby Red Lion Inn, which was due to be demolished for road widening. Made in 1908, 'Fire at the Historic Inn at Hampton' (16 mins / silent) can be viewed online via the BFI Player, complete with sequences showing horse-drawn steam pump carriages and hand-pushed ladder equipment emerging from the arched carriage doorway shown in the photograph. Signs of removed buildings at what would have been numbers 44 and 46 Thames Street are visible in the brickwork to the old fire station's flanking wall, partly covered in ivy.
Date of execution
1973
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_693_73_35_223_12A
London picture map location
Exact
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