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Paisley Fire Brigade

Fire station locations over the years
1800 – Meal Market, Weight House Close, High Street
1834 – Engine House, Gilmour Street
1853 – 32 High Street
1877 – Rear of Moss Street
13/4/1899 to 28/3/1973 – 16 Johnstone Street, PAISLEY
28/3/73 – Canal Street, PAISLEY, PA1 2HQ

Paisley Fire Brigade

Some good advice in 1834

GENERAL REGULATIONS
1st In the event of a Fire breaking out, the person in possession of the premises shall give instant notice of it at the Police Office, county Buildings; and in the meantime, the utmost care shall be taken, to exclude air, by keeping all doors and windows closed.

2d. The Fire Engine house is situated in Gilmour street, adjoining to the Police Office, and the keys are deposited at the Police Office, and with the Captain of the Firemen.

3d. Individuals having wells on their premises, in the neighbourhood of the Fire, are expected to afford access thereto to the Firemen, and otherwise to aid in procuring as plentiful a supply of water as possible, for the Engines.

4th. Persons residing in Flats in the same Tenement in which the Fire breaks out, or in adjoining properties, are recommended to conduct themselves with as much composure and presence of mind as possible, and to shut their doors and windows,* and on no account to allow them to be opened, or their Goods or Furniture to be removed, unless the Captain of Firemen, or person acting in his absence, shall order otherwise.

5th. Spectators are requested to stand as far back as, possible, to preserve a free passage up and down the street for water, and not to press on the Firemen, nor interfere with them in any manner whatever.

* The propriety of this precaution cannot be too frequently enforced. nothing adds more energy to a Fire than giving access to the air, by opening doors, windows, &c. A Fire will sometimes smother itself and go out, if the air can be excluded.