Yeovil's Virtual Museum

emergency services

The histories of Yeovil's emergency services

 

FIRE SERVICES

• Fires and the Fire Service
  Starting with leather buckets hung in the church

• AFS WW2 Fire Station
  A little-known Second World War fire station in Mudford Road

• AFS WW2 Garage
  An equally little-known Second World War fire service garage in Goldcroft
  

POLICE SERVICES

• The Tolle Hall
  The Watch-House and Yeovil's Lock-Up known as the Blind House

• The Town House
  Yeovil's first true police station
  
  

AMBULANCE & HOSPITAL SERVICES

• Hospital 1 - General Dispensary
  The first attempt at a hospital in Yeovil

• Hospital 2 - Fiveways
  Yeovil's first true hospital, later the maternity unit

• Hospital 3 - Isolation
  Intended for victims of smallpox, later used for 'difficult' evacuee children

• Hospital 4 - Newnam Hall
  Emergency hospital for First World War wounded

• Hospital 5 - General
  A new, larger hospital for the growing town

• Hospital 6 - District
  Today's hospital for Yeovil and the surrounding district

• Hospital 7 - Summerlands
  A specialist 'care for the elderly' hospital

 

The Yeovil Fire Brigade (most likely the full complement) photographed around 1880.