Memories of my hometown that is Lewisham. How so many things have changed over the years.

crazy in those days all they had in the terms of protective gloves were everyday house hold gloves or gardening gloves that you pick up in B&Q and Wickes..

It would be really cool if they somehow brought back the look of the Melton cloth tunic and oilskin pants. Of course with different materials though. We don't want them melting like they used to

Nice one Paul thanks for that

It's nice to see how we still haul aloft the exact same today as we did back then

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

5 жыл бұрын

Lee Taylor why change something that works?

Love all the muck that comes out of the ERF's exhaust !!

Jesus.... looking back, I can't believe the antique equipment we used to use and the old Machines..... Happy days. :-)

@underbaked8689

2 ай бұрын

Might have been antique but we saved the lives and put the fires out and rescued the public from major incidents like Hither Green and Moregate etc., etc! We put our lives on the line for the general public - and quite rightly so!

Great discipline :)

@florjanbrudar692

4 жыл бұрын

???

@supertrinigamer

2 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here!

Watch this space Chuck... more to come ;-)

Senga saw! Green oil! 😂

Not to mention the two tone horn that was in use by the fire appliance during this era

@underbaked8689

2 ай бұрын

I'm still alive - just and I remember the BELL that the OIC used to ring as a forerunner to the two tones and I must not forget the flashing red fire light on the appliance. The good old days!!

The fuzz is louder then the two ton3s thats outrageous

When will we see more videos?

I'm guessing the hydrants were different 40 years ago, hence why they're turning them on and off the opposite direction

@paddingtonfire

2 ай бұрын

Before modern era hydrants, the older type, identifiable by a longer cover were opened clockwise and closed anti-clockwise. 😊

"Listen to what paul has to say" I would but whoever made the film didn;t use audio!

@florjanbrudar692

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't*

@m341ehw

4 жыл бұрын

@@florjanbrudar692 We all knew what the guy was trying to say, no need to belittle him.

@contactacb

4 жыл бұрын

Could be that the original tape or 16mm's sound track was in such poor condition the audio was stripped in conversion as the audio tracks were intermittent (I've experienced this with some old footage). Commentary sounds redubbed over more recently just like the music at the end.

That ERF looks great bet she sounded good too!

@freeganjustin6699

8 жыл бұрын

The body is shaped like that to carry an old fashioned wheeled escape ladder. When they were replaced with the 135 (13.5 metre) ladder shown in the film, the ERFs were downgraded to Pump, rather than Pump Ladder. I remember complaints about the ERFs as they were cramped to ride in and firefighters had difficulty getting their gear on in the small space.

@EnidAgnusDei

8 жыл бұрын

Very interesting reply Freeganjustin, were they cramped due to cab layout or large engine hump? please forgive my being stupid but I only ever saw one ERF in action as a TL based in York.

@freeganjustin6699

8 жыл бұрын

They were just smaller than the Dennis's and Shelvokes etc the guys had at the same time. Cab was shorter, narrower and worse had less headroom. Made it difficult to get dressed for firefighting on the move. Some people liked them. There was a big order of Dodge appliances about 1987 that replaced the ERFs and more. They had a 200 decibel motorway siren that quickly had to be disabled on the entire fleet as it was said to be capable of killing pedestrians.

@EnidAgnusDei

8 жыл бұрын

Very good information there, I thank you for it , out of interest what siren was it? was the Dodge a good machine? always liked Dennis myself.

@freeganjustin6699

8 жыл бұрын

No idea what the siren was, although it was one of the first US style wailers usec in the UK. The Dodges became controversial as they broke the LFB's policy of replacement every 12 years. They were durable enough to last for 20 years and the union said it was a disgrace.

17:50 - How to cause a burst water main!

To this day Lewisham still only has 1 pump, an FRU and a command unit

@LondonEmergency999

3 жыл бұрын

Lost the CU now...

@Charlzey1998

3 жыл бұрын

At Dockhead now

at 16:00 those gloves look like something out of wickes, Garden gloves, Thank god they moved on to more fireproof gloves today

@contactacb

7 жыл бұрын

The shortcomings of the PVC gloves and leggings was revealed in a major way at the Kings Cross Fire in1987, eventually modern fire resistant materials such as Nomex were adopted thereafter from 1990

Can't hear you Paul!!

it's like the 60s !!

@cobragaming7068

6 жыл бұрын

Yep it was well clean in Lewisham back then , right up until about the nineteen nineties.

@harrilewis18

3 жыл бұрын

@@cobragaming7068 1990s*

Gear to be cleaned BEFORE going off duty, not when you come on or it was nut roasting time from the boss. Neckerchief??? In our brigade call them snotter beckets to stop the snot running down your neck. 😀

@underbaked8689

2 ай бұрын

Depended on the Guv mine used to say he wanted your fire year spi c and span on watch change at start of shift plus your headlamps better be working - brightly! And when I was the Guv - I was a right bastard!

@underbaked8689

2 ай бұрын

Not headlamps you tube - handlamps - God this lot sucks!

@underbaked8689

2 ай бұрын

You tube listen you idiots, when I type FIRE GEAR don't print fire year!

Bet a lot of lads got badly burnt with those plastic drip pance

The music towards the end really doesn't need to be in this video...

Why wa's the fire engine's green in them day's?

@rapman5791

Ай бұрын

Those were the military fire appliances/. They used them in the London Fire Brigade during the multiple strikes the unions used to call back in the day. They were manned by members of the military to provide fire service for Londoners when the firefighters walked off the job looking for more money.

Blasted hell, everything looked a lot more smarter, neater and with pride back then - look at everything now - absolute crap

@LondonEmergency999

5 жыл бұрын

You can't really say that...

@raysmith6891

5 жыл бұрын

The pump lockers are almost empty! Look in a modern pump now

how is the women with the broken neck 😵

SO WHAT WAS PAUL SAYING? OR SINGING WAS IT SILLECE IS GOLDEN

3:15 shit??

@harrilewis18

3 жыл бұрын

SHIFTS you deaf boy

its not fire engine, it is fire appliance

It has ALWAYS been illegal to measure distances along a Road in the UK in metric units. "Two lengths of large diameter hosecan be laid at speed for a distance of almost One Kilometre." at 9:40 NOT IN THE UK. It is only standard 3" branch hose anyway. Who are you - Remoaners?

@harrilewis18

3 жыл бұрын

oh sorry were you alive in 1983? you may have been but most likely very young yet my dad, born 1961 was most definitely alive during that time it was different. and it's not illegal...