Hampton Fire Station in Thames Street
Hampton Fire Station in Thames Street
Record No
164854
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. The climbing foliage to the Fire Station's flanking wall conceals evidence of adjacent buildings that once stood at number 44 and 46 before the post-war houses seen beyond the void were built. Also shown on the north side of the street, number 40 is thought to have been used at one time as a grocer's shop and is listed locally as a Building of Townscape Merit. Number 38 was at one time the Crown Inn. Built in the eighteenth-century, it was Grade II listed in 1983, listing number 1252978. A road sign on a post in the pavement between the old fire station and number 40 shows approaching vehicles the junction with the High Street with directions for the A311 for Twickenham and the A308 for Kingston. A motion blurred estate car is shown driving out of view to the right.
Date of execution
1977
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_693_77_120_618J_9
London picture map location
Exact
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