When horses drew fire engines - reminiscence with Brenda Hill

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Title When horses drew fire engines - reminiscence with Brenda Hill
Description Video interview discussing reminiscence - reminiscence with Brenda Hill, from the Masters House project circa 2015
Identifier MHV023
Format Video file
File format MP4
Creator Masters House project
Contributor(s) Brenda Hill
Date circa. 2015
Language English
Area Ledbury
Collection Holder Herefordshire Libraries
Transcription And um, but um, and he was also a fireman in Library. And when they were in the fire engine was drawn by horses.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

So, and, and that we, we, we, we've laughed at that because my youngest son Christian is a fireman at Lebury. And now he's retained and um you can't, I mean, all the technology they have now, but when they used to have the, um, the horses, the, the, the fire station was the bottom part of the British Legion, you see, that's where the engines were kept well, and these carts.

And where are the horses kept? Ah, that was another thing, the Royal Oak. So they had to go, they had to dash down for the horses, harness them up and run up the street.

Yes, yes, honestly, honestly, that's the truth. Yes, I can't remember what the, the, the, oh, I'll look in a minute, um, the gentleman who used to be the proprietor of the Royal Oak used to harness the uh the horses up and bring them down. The

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