| Greater
Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Central Fire Station and Training Centre  The Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service have two facilities on an area of land defined by Thompson Street and Cassidy Close. One of those establishments, as you can see below, is the Central Fire Station.   This modern fire
station was built to replace the one that closed in
1980 on the corner of London Road and Fairfield
Street.
 ************* Behind the Central Fire Station, on Thompson Street, is the Fire Service's Training Centre.   A war memorial
incorporated into the boundary wall on Cassidy Close
reveals something about the area's history.
The memorial honours men of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Stores Department who died during
World War I.
 The plaque is here
is because Thompson Street was once on the margins
of the Oldham Road Goods Station and the complex of
warehouses and storerooms associated with it.
As you can see from the map below, from the 1840s,
the site of today's training centre was housing but
beyond was the goods yard.
 The aerial image
below, dated 1953, shows that after the 1840s the
housing was swept away and a large warehouse
building (indicated by the red arrow below) was
constructed beside Thompson Street. The Fire
and Rescue Training Centre occupies that site today.
 |