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Local Notes
Harleston is a small, attractive market town, sitting next to the Waveney River which runs along the Norfolk/Suffolk border. We are approximately 9 miles east of Diss, just off the main A143 Bury St Edmunds to Great Yarmouth main road. We are part of the Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service Retained and serve our local community as well as covering areas up to Pulham Market to the north, Earsham to the east, Thorpe Abbots to the West and assist Suffolk Fire Service to the south across the Waveney river. We have a team of 12 Fire Fighters and Drill every Tuesday night. This site is currently under construction. Please visit us again when we hope to have more content available.
Harleston Fire Brigade Rules and Regulations
A very interesting booklet which was given to fire fighters on joining the service. It is dated July 1911 and gives an insight into the rules and regulations of the fire service. To view the contents of the book Please Click Here
Captain Robert Pipe (1870 - 1928)
Robert Pipe was born in Harleston in 1870, the elder son of Thomas a head groom, and Margaret Pipe. Robert became a house painter and decorator. He joined the Harleston Fire Brigade, and became Captain, commanding fourteen men. On the 24th May 1928 Harleston Fire Brigade led by Robert Pipe was summoned to a fire at Syleham Mill. Whilst supervising fire-fighting operations, Captain Pipe was knocked down and a wall fell on him, fracturing his left leg. He was pulled clear by his colleagues and taken to hospital, but died on May 31st. He was fifty seven years old, and a post mortem revealed a blood clot in the pulmonary artery, probably caused from the severe leg injury.
He was buried at St Mary's Church Redenhall on 5th June 1928, given a full Fire Brigade funeral, with men of the Harleston Brigade acting as coffin bearers. On 23rd November 1987, a citation and photograph of Captain Pipe were unveiled at Harleston Fire Station in Swan Lane by the Chief Norfolk Fire Officer, in the presence of Ernest Emms, and two granddaughters of Robert Pipe. Pipe's heroism had been forgotten for over half a century, until the events of May 1928 were mentioned by Moreton Denny, and research was carried out by the Supervising Officer for Harleston, Mr R Crickmore.
Harleston Crew currently consists of:
WM Steve Woodgate
CM John Marjoram
CM Simon Golby
Ff Colin Broughton
Ff Carl Hickforg
Ff David Renaut
Ff Steve Cox
Ff Kevin Brown
Ff Jonathon Brown
Ff Daniel Jefferson
Ff Peter Marjoram
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