AGY-4067 | Richmond Fire Station

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The Fire Brigades Act 1884 was applied to Richmond in 1896. However, Richmond Volunteer Company (No. 28) was formed by April 1895 when the Fire Brigades Board approved a request to send an instructor. The Volunteer Company was registered with the Metropolitan Fire Brigades in 1898. Volunteers owned the original station. Its location is unknown. The Volunteer Company was subsidised from 1898. In June 1904 the Fire Brigades Board visited Richmond and reported that the station was a small wooden erection on a piece of the Police land and had no yard. Land was acquired by purchase by the Government at March Street in 1907, having a building of two floors thereon. The old fire station was removed to this property in March Street and was occupied in April 1908. (1)

At 1 June 1909 Richmond was listed as volunteer Station No. 28 at March-street, Richmond. The Captain was James Donohoe and there were eight other firemen. (2) Initially Richmond was part of the Sydney Fire District until 1910 when Richmond Fire District was created. (3) Prior to this Richmond had been part of the Metropolitan area. (4)

Repairs to the fire station were completed in 1912. (5) In 1964 contracts were let and work commenced on the erection of a new fire station at Richmond. (6) The new fire station was completed in 1965. (7) Richmond was active in the Windsor Fire District in 1984. (8)

In 1999 Richmond was located in the North West Region Zone 1 with brigade number 82. (9) In 2000 the station was located at the corner of March and Paget Streets, Richmond. (10)

In 2021 Richmond Fire Station was situated in the Metro West 3 (NW3) Zone and its address was 43 March Street, Richmond. (11)

ENDNOTES
1. Colin Adrian, Fighting Fire!: A Century of Service 1884-1984, Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1984, p. 257; Board of Fire Commissioners; NRS 580, Information relating to fire stations, n.d. [14/1737.2].
2. Fire Brigades Board; NRS 4264, List of Stations, Equipment and Personnel, 1 June 1909 [3/12946].
3. Adrian, p. 257.
4. Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales, Report for 1910, being the First Annual Report, p. 11.
5. Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales, Report for 1912, p. 2.
6. Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales For 1964, p. 4.
7. Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales For 1965, p. 5.
8. Adrian, p. 257.
9. NSW Fire Brigades Annual Report 1998/1999, p. 81. Copy on State Records File 00/384.
10. NSW Fire Brigades website: http://www.nswfb.nsw.gov.au/about/stations_all.asp?Search_string=GET+FULL+LISTING accessed 7/8/2000. Copy on State Records File 00/384.
11. NSW Fire and Rescue, Fire Station Finder https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/page.php?id=9210&station=252 (accessed 2 September 2021).