Lydney Fire Brigade 1940
Courtesy of: Margaret Watson. Uploaded:
Lydney
Fire Service early1940
From left to right:
Back Row: Lionel (Flash) Howell, 2.George
Bowen, 3. Jack Cauldwell, 4.Mr Simms, 5 , 6 Mr W?Davis , 7 Ernie Letheren
. 8 Percy Clark, 9 Ken Long. 10 Harold Cox.
Front Row: 1 Percy Lane, 2 not known,
3. Charlie Williams 4 Hubert Cox (station officer), 5 Albert Manns, ,6
,
7 Ernie
Letheren (brother to Fred Letheren)
Taken outside the Fire Station in Victoria Road Lydney.
David Long added (Augist 2011): "... I had ride on the engine, on the left hand side. You sat facing out and hit your head on the ladder. My dad was going to a hay stack fire. The fire was near the Severn rail bridge and he was going to watch it did not break out again on a Sunday morning. He was Ken Long".
Ian Powell added (December 2011): "... with regards to the picture ... Ernie Letheren is sat on the far right on the front row not Fred Letheren (now corrected) I know this as Ernie was my grandfather and I have copy of this picture with some of the names on it".
Thanks also to Bill Grant and to Ken Markey for recalling " both (Letheren) brothers used to have the Letheren Coaches. They used to do the factory runs etc. Fred eventually took over the coaches from his brother Ernie".
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