On the Pathe News site there are at least 5 of these silent clips. They are all dated 1972. My late father appears in one of them doing BA training. I think these films were going to get turned into a Pathe News Reel item. However they never were. I suspect that what you are watching are the raw films showing Glasgow Fire Service appliances. I suspect what is being shown is in fact staged for the filming. This would explain why appliances that were not in this part of the City appear to be. My later father did wonder if the fires were in fact set for the filming. One of the issues at this time was the large number of Tenement Closes that had been vacated; but left to fall derelict by the Corporation of Glasgow. In the early '70's arson attacks (in Scotland arson is strictly called 'Fire Raising') on these vacant closes was becoming a ever larger part of the fire fighting duties of the Fire Service. I seem to recall being told that there was an appreciable number of closes in the City that had then stood vacant for up to 5 years! Glasgow Fire Service ended up urging the Corporation that to reduce the increasing number of Fire Raising incidents they should either repair or demolish. Glasgow Corporation preferring to simply demolish.
The second part feartures pumps from the East station in Soho Street which was replaced in 1983 by the Calton station.
The Leyland appliance at 2.27 is now in the Glasgow Transport museum
On the Pathe News site there are at least 5 of these silent clips. They are all dated 1972. My late father appears in one of them doing BA training.
I think these films were going to get turned into a Pathe News Reel item. However they never were. I suspect that what you are watching are the raw films showing Glasgow Fire Service appliances. I suspect what is being shown is in fact staged for the filming. This would explain why appliances that were not in this part of the City appear to be. My later father did wonder if the fires were in fact set for the filming.
One of the issues at this time was the large number of Tenement Closes that had been vacated; but left to fall derelict by the Corporation of Glasgow. In the early '70's arson attacks (in Scotland arson is strictly called 'Fire Raising') on these vacant closes was becoming a ever larger part of the fire fighting duties of the Fire Service.
I seem to recall being told that there was an appreciable number of closes in the City that had then stood vacant for up to 5 years! Glasgow Fire Service ended up urging the Corporation that to reduce the increasing number of Fire Raising incidents they should either repair or demolish. Glasgow Corporation preferring to simply demolish.
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