
St Ives architect David Pitts has designed the new building in traditional
style, with a timber structure and a lead roof. We hope it will be
put up in the early summer and will enhance the Museum garden, as
well as giving us the chance to display the Earith fire engine properly
- for the first time after 70 years. Thanks to the Friends of the
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The Friends have pledged to meet the entire
cost of a new building in the Museum garden. It will house and display
an important item in the Museum's collections, an 18th-century fire
engine from the village of Earith.
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| This unusual piece of local history was
given to the Museum in the 1930s, but lack of space meant that it
languished in a shed in the Museum garden until 1991. Then it was
sent to London to be restored before being put on display with other
historic fire engines at Ely Fire Station. Lack of space at Ely forced
the Fire Service to send it back to us last year, so we're now taking
steps to provide a purpose-made building to keep it safely and display
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The Friends Committee will be meeting in
February to plan our events for 2009.
We're planning to hold our annual coach trip in May, when we shall
be going to the historic Dockyard at Chatham in Kent.
And later in the summer our ever-popular barbecue will take place
in the picturesque surroundings of the Museum garden. |
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Photograph by Michael White |