After the new station opened, the brigade asked for the sign to read “Glenhaven Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade”. A letter of 4 April 1979 stressed the importance of residents understanding that this was an unpaid activity.
Council suggested “Glenhaven Fire Station 1979” instead. The brigade wrote again in June to insist on its preferred wording. Later that month Council reported that the incorrect sign had been removed and a new one would be erected.
It is a small dispute with a clear purpose: to make the volunteers behind the building visible. It also belongs beside the archive’s many records of donated labour, fundraising, working bees and equipment kept serviceable by members.
Read the evidence
Open the original record at the supporting passage.
- this is an unpaid1979-1989.htm
- Glenhaven Fire Station 19791979-1989.htm
- incorrect station sign has been removed1979-1989.htm