John Collins,
fire watcher, of 38 Tanymarian Road, Mayhill.
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Fire watchers tended to be people who couldn't otherwise serve," Ron explained.
He was a
fire watcher and was on hand, with his tin hat and shovel, to try to douse the flames sparked by the latest German wave of incendiary bombs.
Longtime tropical
fire watcher Christopher Uhl, also from Penn State, comments in the same journal issue that "fire adds a whole new dimension to tropical disturbance ecology." Long gone are the days when researchers observed that Amazon jungles didn't burn.
The most recent wartime
fire watcher's post has been discovered in the grounds of the former Newcastle Breweries offices in the city centre's Percy Street.
She had been there a number of years as a
fire watcher. She was just there doing her job and was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
After his retirement, he was a
fire watcher in the summer.
The Bruce Building, Newcastle University, which still has a Second World War
fire watcher's post attached to the > back of the building Emily Carey 270214BRUCE_001
The courts were obviously busy because a Gateshead man was fined 20s (pounds 1) for being drunk while on duty as a paid
fire watcher and, at Tynemouth, a lady was fined for selling a rabbit at a price exceeding the fixed maximum of 11d (fourand-a-half-pence) per lb.
Andrew Mealey of Coventry's Herbert Museum, said the pictures could have been taken by a
fire watcher looking out for incendiary bombs l More dramatic pictures, Pages 4 & 5; l Remembrance Sunday, Pages 6 & 7.
He plays a crucial health and safety role as a
fire watcher, preventing fires during open flame and high temperature processes such as welding.
I became a
fire watcher and had pictures given to me of all the German bombers so we could recognise their planes.
At Tyne Dock Engineering, near the market square, Jimmy's brother, Bob Bowhill, was on duty as a
fire watcher. At the sound of the alert he made sure the nightshift men went down to the cellar, but as he was having one final look around the yard a bomb exploded, sending huge lumps of concrete into the air.
"It was probably a
fire watcher looking out for incendiary bombs.
At night, he volunteered as a
fire watcher looking after the streets he loved so much.
