Brighouse Blog

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See - The history of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme; with monorial notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees : Turner, J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall), b. 1845 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Anyone interested in early Brighouse history should take a look at this excellent book https://archive.org/details/historyofbrighou00turn

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Wellholme Park Project

I will start this blog with a great presentation with permission from Chris Helme, who  regularly gives talks about Brighouse and surrounding areas. This is the first of a few presentations he gave in 2006 and it concerns the  Wellholme Park History Project 

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History Brighouse in its early years had a tremendous fire risk due to the large textile mills in the town. In 1855, Samuel Baines acquired a fire engine called Neptune to protect the town centre properties and the Victoria Mills Fire Brigade was formed.

In 1895 a disastrous fire burned down Sugden’s Flour Mill. Neptune could not supply the pressure of water needed for such a fire. Therefore, in 1897 plans decided to build a new steam fired engine, and to form a Borough Fire Brigade.

1906 saw old Neptune making its last journey through the streets of Brighouse to the scrapyard. It was becoming obsolete and past its best. Brighouse, in 1871, had replaced it at a cost of a staggering £1000. A fire engine today costs approximately one hundred thousand pounds. The station at its peak housed one whole-time fire engine, a turntable ladder and a retained fire engine. They operate in conjunction of the Brighouse 999 call information.

The present station on Lister Street was opened on the 12 June 1971 by Councillor J T Barraclough and County Fire Officer K L Holland.

The present fire engines respond on average to approximately 1000 fire calls per year. Because of the station’s location these are calls on a wide [unclear]. Halifax, Bradford and Dewsbury areas as a regular basis. Recently malicious fires and malicious false alarm calls have risen by 85% over the last year and are a major problem.

Brighouse Fire Station has an ongoing Community Home Fire Safety programme and firefighters have assisted hundreds of houses in the area, and a large percentage of these homes have had smoke detectors fitted by the crews. Accounting for this process, properties are entered into a database and reviewed in the future to ensure the safety of the occupants. This gives a firefighter a varied workload and shows that the fire station is an important element in the town it provides the services for.

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What buildings can you recognise from this drawing by Mr Stead?

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