Galway Co.Co./ Environment/ Fire Prevention / Fire Stations / Galway Fire Station
Galway Fire Station: File of correspondence, primarily internal, relating to the maintenance and repair of the building, also in relation to the removal and purchase of equipment the property of McNally & Co. Ltd (in Voluntary Liquidation), stored on Council property (1962); use of the Station for training purposes by various organisations, such as Order of Malta (Jan 1963), and Vocational Education Committee’s (VEC) and others, includes for instance copy letter from the County Manager to the VEC advising ‘it would be quite impracticable to make accommodation available for your classes in the forenoon. In fact, the granting of the facilities sought by your committee at any time will be an embarrassment, and I should much prefer if your committee could possibly meet its requirements otherwise. If you are definitely unable to obtain other accommodation, the accommodation in the lecture room in the Fire Station could be made available from 2.0 pm to 5.0 pm., but even during these hours there may be interruption of your classes in the case of fire alarms being received during those hours, as the firemen would have to pass through the lecture room’ (25 Oct 1965); construction of a store (1967); proposal for additional required accommodation, recommended that ’Firemen: Sleeping accommodation for up to 12 men. Officers: Sleeping accommodation for 2 officers. Offices: Chief Fire Officer and Second Officers (2)’ together with toilets, kitchen and recreation facilities (27 Sept 1973); includes architect’s drawings for the Station extension (April 1974); quotations for a television for the Station (1977); quotations for portable accommodation for office accommodation (1978); storage of Galway Sub-Aqua Club equipment (1983); and handwritten letter from the Chief Fire Officer (O'Shaughnessy) to S. Keating, Co. Manager, relating to possible use of part of premises at Sandy Road, Galway as a Fire Station, include annotation ‘noted and agreed that location poses many problems’ (7 May 1985).