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After nearly ten years, work began on the Northern Ireland War Memorial Building (also known as Memorial House) when a site was secured in Waring Street Belfast. 5-21 Waring Street had housed a number of commercial enterprises before being destroyed on 4/5 May 1941 during the Belfast Blitz Fire Raid.
The Belfast Fire Brigade came into existence in 1800, and until 1861 was managed jointly with the local police service. It then provided a dedicated firefighting service to the people of the city of Belfast until its amalgamation with the Northern Ireland Fire Authority on 1 October 1973, when it became the Fire Authority for Northern Ireland, today the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service ...
The firefighting units were later separated from the police to form the Belfast Fire Brigade. Until World War II, towns had their own fire services. In 1942, Northern Ireland's fire services were amalgamated into one, though they were separate from the National Fire Service that covered the rest of the United Kingdom. [3]
Belfast: Antrim: Military: Commemorates the fallen of World War I and World War II, life during the 1941 Belfast Blitz: Ormeau Baths Gallery: Belfast: Antrim: Art: Contemporary art Red Barn Gallery: Belfast: Antrim: Art: Photography gallery, also known as RBG Belfast Royal Ulster Rifles Museum: Belfast: Antrim: Regimental: Regimental uniforms ...
The NFS was created in August 1941 by the amalgamation of the wartime national Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) and the local authority fire brigades (about 1,600 of them). Prior to this, many police forces were charged with attending fires, with Liverpool City Police being an early example of a Police Fire Brigade. [2]
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Account of the Belfast Blitz from a history of "THE DUBLIN FIRE BRIGADE." By Tom Geraghty & Trevor Whitehead. Clydeside's Ordeal by Fire by M. Chadwick; The Government of Northern Ireland Archived 25 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine; Second World War NI (Learning resources from Museums Service, Public Records Office and others.)
Belfast Fire Command – Belfast; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Depot – Omagh; The Royal Ulster Rifles Depot – Armagh; Territorial Army 188th (Antrim) Independent Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery – Belfast; Antrim Fortress Royal Engineers – Belfast; The Supplementary Reserve. North Irish Horse – Belfast; 3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade ...