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A view from the house opposite of the local volunteers at work - when the fire station was just along the road next to Saxonholme, where I gather history is about to repeat itelf.
As a child I used to love the smell of the laundry.
I was born in the flat above the laundry.
Mum would regularly send me to the laundry - either taking sheets down for cleaning or bringing them home, all neatly wrapped in brown paper and string. For a small young lad that was quite a hike from the top of Gibbon Road, along the whole length of Western Road and down Bay Vue Road.
I remember the fire, but can't recall the exact year. Mid 1960s, I think, but does anyone know the date?
I might be one of the kids in the first photo. I was amazed how close we were allowed to get. These days I'm sure they would have closed the road.
Can you have a guess at what year the fire was, Ron.
John -- Editor
I remember it well I must have been about 5 at the time, we walked down from Second Avenue to watch.
I think this could have been about 1965. the Bedford van in the first picture looks like mine and parked outside my grandfathers house.
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