Museum Articles

Fire Museum

The Essex Fire Museum gives visitors the opportunity to take a fascinating look at the history of the Fire Service here in Essex. Housing a collection featuring historic fire engines, firefighting equipment, uniforms and photographs. Visitors to the museum will see for themselves how firefighting has changed over the years as the technology has advanced. Collected and curated by former Grays Firefighter Roger Pickett the Essex Fire Museum provides a fascinating look back in to the history of the fire service and the men and women

Museum Articles

‘All Fired Up’ is a new series of articles written by our Museum volunteers about the history of the fire service in Essex.

Volunteers spend many hours researching the collection, often uncovering untold stories and finding interesting facts that would otherwise be lost.

To share these invaluable snippets of history with you we are making some of this research available here.

Support Documents

1. A Bit of Gas by Mick Ford383kb
2. The Pump Escape by Murray Beale127kb
3. HK Hudson Abbreviated by David Hughes297kb
4. The Fire Brigades Act 1938 by Mike Smith446kb
5. All Creatures Great and Small by Mick Ford409kb
6. Hooked! by Murray Beale534kb
7. The Silvertown Explosion by D.P Hughes145kb
8. The Fire Brigade is on the Job! by M Smith371kb
9. Francis Charles Wilson.258kb
10. All Fired Up Hydrant Plates208kb
11. James Charles Diaper40kb