Talk:History of fire brigades in the United Kingdom

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[edit] References

Does anyone know of any references to the old brigades and the pre 1974 make up, I used information in the Fire Service College library, but not much to go on and took some sorting through. Anything in the way of other references would be useful. Geotek 01:00, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

You (we) could try the individual FRS webs - some, in their "about us" sections say from what older brigades the current FRS is comprised today. I think it follows that most FRS have absorbed smaller brigades. For eg, London incorporated West Ham, East Ham, Croydon and some other brigades. My guess is that it will be a tricky job. East Ham fire brigade consisted of two (maybe three) stations. Escaper7 07:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

I propose moving this article to "Historical fire brigades of the United Kingdom". This would keep it consistent with "Fire service in the United Kingdom" - there was a long discussion here about the use of caps in the title. Escaper7 07:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

On second thoughts, how about moving it to "History of fire brigades in the United Kingdom", that would fit better with the intro which could be written something like: The history of fire brigades in the United Kingdom etc etc. It flows better, and seems to fit the format of all other "history of XYZ" articles on Wikipedia. Escaper7 07:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I have no problems with re-naming the article to fit standard conventions Geotek 21:14, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Not much objection to the move, so I'll go ahed as per above. Escaper7 07:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)