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Also surplus to requirements would be Lauriston Place in Edinburgh, although "steps will be taken to ensure continued public access to heritage assets in Edinburgh".
From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24239487
So, can we get on with opening the cycle contraflow on Lady Lawson Street then? (I use it anyway, but it would be nice to be legal).
Having often stared through the glass at an empty museum, I think
"Lauriston Place fire service museum to open?"
would be more like it :)
+1 for the cycle lane.
I went in one lunch time for a wander round, got a one on one guided tour by one of the volunteers. Well worth a wee look. I think your best to phone them in advance and find out when there will be someone there.
It's probably open this weekend for Doors Open Day.
I once phoned up to ask when it was open, but the answer I got was so complicated that I never actually went.
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Marion Williams, director of the Cockburn Association, said: “Everybody is devastated. There is an incredible pride that this is where it all started and it will be an awful loss if it is sold for flats – but no-one is listening.”
And she dismissed SFRS plans to relocate the museum elsewhere. “The whole point of it is being where it is. You can’t just throw it into some other building. It belongs there.”
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Would you go to the Royal Museum of Scotland of an afternoon, if it were relocated to the anonymous warehouses in Granton?
The SFRS plan to put it back to where it used to be. The museum was at MacDonald Road (hardly Granton) for many years.
McDonald Road will be handy for me. Never visited the one on Lauriston Place, might take the kids if it goes to McDonald Road. :-)
Oh it will be close to segregated cycle lanes on Leith Walk and some paint on McDonald Road too.....contrast to Lauriston Place which is a nightmare to cycle (though the Meadows nearby).
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24 September 2016 (10 am to 4 pm)
25 September 2016 (10 am to 4 pm)
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http://www.doorsopendays.org.uk/places/edinburgh/the-fire-service-museum/
Firecycle by andy a, on Flickr
Spotted at the fire museum today. Not one from their collection, but brought along by an enthusiast.
This curious velocipede is an ex-London Fire Brigade hose layer bike.
The vehicle in the background is a 1960s-era hose layer, a specialised fire appliance that carried huge quantities of hoses internally to connect distant fire hydrants or other water sources to the scene of a fire. It carried a trailer pump to assist in moving the water along. Such a vehicle would be dispatched to support a major emergency where local water supplies may be insufficient to fight the fire. Such was the expected distance between the appliance and the water sources, two of these bicycles were carried internally to assist in quickly towing the hoses to the hydrants and getting back again. The bike also carried connection pieces and a hydrant key.
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It brings together 130 staff under one roof and pools the experience and expertise of teams from across Response and Resilience, Prevention and Protection, ICT and Maintenance.
The new base combines three facilities that had reached the end of their operational life – Lauriston Place in Edinburgh, Maddiston in Falkirk and Thornton in Fife - ensuring the SFRS has the resource needed to ensure the safety of communities across the East.
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The Fife place was in the remains of the surface buildings of the Rothes colliery.
The papers on that are still locked up under the 70 years rule given the scandal surrounding the epic amounts of money quite literally sunk into a pit that only every produced water. And lots of it.
I thought it was the 30 and now slowly reducing to 20 years rule, unless there are serious state secrets involved?
Oh you are right it was 30. Hence released in 2000 as it closed in 1969. Shows how up to date I am!
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Edinburgh University is to buy the city's former fire service headquarters.
The Lauriston Place building opened as the service's headquarters in 1824 and currently houses The Edinburgh Museum of Fire.
Despite a campaign against the move, the museum will move to a new purpose-built location.
The fire building will form part of Edinburgh College of Art's plans to transform the area into a hub for arts.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-37519072
Could be worse...
A Tesco metro
Well that makes sense given that the art college surrounds the building. Good to it kept in educational use.
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FIRE bosses have confirmed plans to move the Capital’s Museum of Fire to a purpose-built facility at McDonald Road fire station.
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"Assistant Chief Officer Lewis Ramsay, who chairs the SFRS heritage committee, claimed the planned move back to McDonald Road meant the museum was “coming home”. "
Maybe I'm biased due to living locally, but I am looking forward to this!
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