London Fire Brigade Sidcup Fire Station
London Fire Brigade Sidcup Fire Station
Command District: Southeastern
Borough: Bexley
Station Callsign: E40
Opened: 1914
Address: 156 – 158 Main Road, Sidcup, Kent DA14 6NZ
Allocation
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Notes
Sidcup Fire Station was constructed on this site by the Foots Cray Urban District and opened in 1914.
The station was built on the site of the previous 1902 station which was poorly constructed and had to be demolished.
Ownership passed to Sidcup Urban District in 1921, before passing again when Chislehurst and Sidcup UDC was formed in 1934. This new ownership extended the rear of the station premises to provide more facilities in that year.
World War II saw the station pass to the National Fire Service in 1939 and this lasted until 1948, when the NFS was disbanded and the station passed to Kent Fire Brigade.
With the creation of the Greater London Council and the redrawing of boundaries, the station passed to ownership of the London Fire Brigade in 1965.
In 2009, the station underwent an expansion and refurbishment to allow larger fire engines to be stationed here. The resulting new appliance bay was constructed at the rear of the existing building.
Can you confirm that in the 1980s Sidcup Fire Station caught fire. I was driving past the Fire Station late one evening and saw a lot of smoke coming out from under the eves and upper windows but no flames and there appeared to be no Engines in the Garage area, I carried on to the Police station just along the road and reported what I saw, but to this day I still don’t know if it was on fire.