Beschreibung:

Fire Record Book of the Firemaster at No 1 Darnley Station, Renfrew, kept by James Whitelaw, Watchroom Attendant, on behalf of Firemaster Charles Angus, beginning on 10 January 1939 and running until 9 November 1948, the entries for opening 68 recording cases for 7 to 14 May 1941, namely on 7 May the deployment of a motor pump to extinguish fire on grassland at the Castlemilk Estate caused by "Children playing with fire"; on 9 May another deployed to extinguish a fire caused by "Spark from open joint in vent"; 10 May "Motor Pump AFS. Unite No 4" deployed to extinguish fire caused by crash landing ("...Firemen with 1st Aid Reel from Dennis Pump, and Soda/ Acid Extinguisher..."), returning at 0106 hours on 11/5/41, with a fuller account of the incident entered under the column headed 'Description of Building and Damage': "Messerschmidt [sic] 110. Twin Engine Monoplane Fighter. Aircraft partly destroyed by fire, and effect of crash landing. The Pilot Deputy Fuerhrer [sic] Rudolph [sic] Hess, who was the sole occupant of the machine, baled out just before the aircraft crashed. He was taken to Floors farm House suffering from a broken ankle, and was detained pending the arrival of a detachment of the Home Guard, when he was removed to Maryhill Military Barracks..."); and 14 May when a "Common Chimney fire" at 13 Florence Drive, Giffnock, was extinguished by a fireman deploying a stirrup hand pump; the volume also covering the air-raids on Renfrew and Barrhead on 13-14 March 1941 (see note below), most other entries of a more domestic nature ("...Electric cooker setting alight to cooking fat/ Spark from passing Locomotive/ Children playing with matches..."); kept in a single hand throughout, with index (later entries of which in a different hand), stationer's ticket of Alexander Gardner Ltd., Paisley, dated 10/1/[19]40, some 200 numbered openings (c.400 pages), light dust-staining, and thumbing to Hess entry, half-calf, folio, No 1 Darnley Station, Renfrew, 10 January 1940 to 9 November 1948