Walking group visits Fire Museum

The Walking Group braved the elements this week to visit the Fire Museum /Workshop in Champion Road, Newport. We saw a great collection of vintage fire vehicles, both powered and horse drawn, and fire memorabilia including helmets, uniforms, air tanks and badges. Some of the items are on loan from private owners.

Many trucks are operational and used for special displays and parades, events like Good Friday Children’s Hospital Appeal and Country Fire Station milestones. We also saw the workshops and storage sheds - what a daunting challenge is ahead without sufficient volunteers to give their time to assist with the restoration. Thank you to Mike and Graham for taking us around – appreciated your passion for what you are doing. We are lucky that this aspect of our history and heritage has been reserved for us to enjoy. Of course the highlight of our visit was a short ride on a fire truck!!!

Lunch was up the road at Marks Cakes where the temptation of a cake or pie was too strong to ignore and we then walked back to Newport Station just in time to avoid the rain.

Thanks to Mararet Bond for supplying this report.