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Fire Stations during WW2

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Patrick Higgins

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My father was in the AFS and lived in New Spring Street. My mum remembers walk to the station with my sisters and she thought it was not a long walk. The only station I could find was at 99 Vauxhall Rd. I know there was a station at Moseley Rd but I think that may have been too far away. I live in Australia and have never been to England so can only go off google maps. Maybe someone might be able to help me.
 
Patrick Higgins said:
My father was in the AFS and lived in New Spring Street. My mum remembers walk to the station with my sisters and she thought it was not a long walk. The only station I could find was at 99 Vauxhall Rd. I know there was a station at Moseley Rd but I think that may have been too far away. I live in Australia and have never been to England so can only go off google maps. Maybe someone might be able to help me.
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The nearest train station to New Spring St would have been Hockley, a ten/fifteen minute walk.
What number New Spring St did your parents live at?
 
There is a long thread about the AFS:

Auxiliary Fire Service

Hi Shirley, I dont remember him ever mentioning that name, but I was only 2 when the War ended and Dad carried on with his normal full time occupation in the Co-op Grocery Dept. He became a Grocery Branch Manager, and I can clearly remember two of them, one was at Slade Road, Erdington and the...
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Maybe some information is there?
 
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