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Your request has caused me to spend quite a while to mentally shift tidbits of memory around to see what I could recall from my childhood. Unfortunately it's not much and it's not what you require.
During the 1940s and 1950s we lived off Spring Bank West near Calvert Lane and my mother joined the Auxiliary Fire Brigade sited on Anlaby Road corner of Calvert Lane. I remember my father didn't sound too pleased with the idea when she first broached the subject and as I never seemed to do what I wanted I was surprised a few days later seeing her setting off for the interview. There was a delay of several days before she found that she'd been accepted and I think that would be the time I discovered that she was 5ft 6.1/2 inches tall.
It seemed a long time before she received her full uniform and I especially remember the shoes which weren't the shiny gleaming footwear worn by the soldiers we used to see practicing marching up and down the main road. These were dull black pimply leather, extremely heavy and the leather was thick, hard and unforgiving. I remember she spent hours each day "bulling" the shoes using spit & polish which she rubbed in with the bone handle of one of our dinner knives in an attempt to get a remove the "pimples" and get a smooth sheen; apparently we were supposed to be able to see a reflection of our faces in the toecap if she bulled them sufficiently. I've never seen a photo of my mother in her auxiliary FB uniform. I'm pretty sure she would have bought a copy of a group photo if there had been one
I've had a look through the Hull Daily Mail newspapers on GenesReunited to see if I could find an advert for recruits specifically for our local fire station but there were too many general calls for volunteers. I did see that the local Priory Cinema at the other end of Anlaby Road was also used to request people to volunteer.
Below is a 1944 call for recruits to defend the city but at that time we were in Brierfield, Lancashire awaiting the birth of one of my brothers.
"Hull Daily Mail East Riding of Yorkshire, England
21 Mar 1944
HULL FIRE GUARD SERVICE
HULL FIRE GUARD SERVICE Appeal for Volunteers The Fire Guard film was again shown, together with news and propaganda films at the Priory Cinema, Hull. The attendance of the public was particularly good, no doubt indicating the growing interest being taken"
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