My Father was a Fireman in the Horsham Fire Brigade during World War Two. I had been researching into our Family History and found that there is little knowledge, of the work Horsham Fire Brigade did at this time.
The Record Office at Chichester has very little in the way of documents.
Horsham Museum, told me that they have one wartime photograph, They suggested that I contact the Council, this I did. They were very helpful, but unable to come up with any information. It seems that when the fire brigade moved to Hurst Road, the council took over the building for offices. A skip was used to take away the 鈥 rubbish鈥, and lots of local History was lost forever.
I wrote to the Fire Brigade, it transpired that the Brigade had very few war time artefacts, No war time records, but a lot of interest in the subject, they agreed it would be nice to know more.
I thought it was time something was done to record this important part of Horsham鈥檚 History.
It was difficult to know where to start. So I began with my father, Robert Blake, with the help of his diary鈥檚, the Records Office, a few of my father's colleagues, and of course my very patient husband, I have put together, as much information as I have been able to find.But am always looking for more
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