Glenhaven Rural Fire Brigade is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and I have three gifts for the Brigade and the Glenhaven community to help celebrate this milestone.
Our family have held a 16mm film reel of footage from the January 1975 bushfire that swept through the area, but never knew exactly what was on it. I’ve had it digitised. It is raw film recorded for the Channel 10 news. I offer the footage to you, seen for the first time in 51 years. Do you know any of the people appearing in this film or recognise a location?
We also held 8mm footage of Glenhaven in the 1960s and 1970s, and I’ve added it to the video.
Lastly, I have prepared a website presenting the entire history of the Glenhaven RFS Brigade, drawing on earlier work from 25 years ago but updated with new photos and the video. It paints a comprehensive picture of the history from the 1940s until the early 2000s and contains many scans of key documents and photos from the archives.
Happy birthday, Glenhaven RFS!
That can be found here:
MINSTREL SHOW
Jan. 7, 1976
From left, top: Tom Muston,
Bill Cooper
Below: Norman Bent, Harry Holland, Cliff McMaster