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Firemen 008

1950s carnival re-enactment on King Street of an earlier Fire Brigade call-out. The horse-drawn steam engine, nicknamed 'Little Tich', arrived at Blackburn in 1901 and contined in service until the mid 1920s, despite the introduction of motorised engines in 1913.

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Image Height 549
Image Width 640
Image Copyrights Unknown
Image Location Unknown
Date 1951-1960
Image Format Newspaper Cutting
Place Blackburn
Subjects Fires and Fire Service
Image Collections Sumner, Michael