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Here is our Shand Mason Two Cylinder Double Vertical 200GPM Fire Engine, newly refurbished to it's former glory. 

The tender was received for the Steam Fire Engine on 11th December 1912, and was purchased for £345

A spark arrester was also purchased for £3-3-0, and an alarm bell for £4-0-0.

The Shand Mason was replaced with a motor fire engine in 1938.

Tenbury's hand-drawn hose-cart (above) fitted with solid rubber tyred wheels, carried eight lengths of canvas hose, standpipes, keys and two branches and a dividing breeching, it carried two oil-lamps, fixed to the front.  With this hose-cart a fire could be quickly tackled using water under pressure from the water mains.

Below is a picture of a Bedford Fire appliance that was based at Tenbury from 1963 to 1979.  The picture of the appliance and crew putting the hosereel away was taken in 1963.

Above is a picture of the 1970 crew at Tenbury.

Below : 531 Water Ladder and 533 Water Tender, taken on the auction yard in 1983.

Below you can see the opening of the new (current) fire station, with the two appliances (D911 BUY and KNP 442T)

Above : A decommissioned fire appliance (D911 BUY), that served most of it's time based at Station 53 Tenbury Wells, has been given to the people of Sri Lanka to replace one lost in the Tsunami that devastated the eastern coast of the island on Boxing Day 2004.

CFO Paul Hayden handed over the keys to two Sri Lankan cricketers - Mitttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas, who were playing cricket at Worcestershire Cricket Club on April 28th 2005.  They formally accepted the appliance on behalf of the Sri Lankan government.

The appliance was at Tenbury from new, when the current fire station was built in 1987

Above : Dennis Sabre (M284 KWP) At the time when this appliance served at Tenbury as callsign 532, we had Dennis SS - J668 BUY serving alongside as 531.  The appliance left Tenbury at the end of May 2006, to go into service at Stn 23 Bewdley - Callsign 231. It was replaced with a newer Dennis Sabre (VX53 JEU).

Dennis SS - J668 BUY (above) served at Tenbury up until January 2007, when it was replaced with a Dennis Rapier.  It served as the frontline pump, alongside M284 KWP (pictured above).

Above you can see a Dennis Rapier, L293 UWP, that served at Tenbury as the frontline pump alongside Sabre VX53 JEU. It took over service from Dennis SS J668 BUY.

The rapiers were very fast machines that handled extremely well, but were dated by the time this one entered into service at Tenbury.  This appliance was one of the last Rapiers in Hereford and Worcester to be replaced, ours being replaced in February 2010 with a Dennis Sabre X781 CUY.

Above : Dennis Sabre VX53 JEU.  This appliance came to Tenbury in 2006 after serving at Bromsgrove.  It gave 5 years service before being replaced on 14th April 2011 with a brand new Scania appliance, registration VX60 AKG.  The Sabre continued its service at Station 48, Eardisley Fire Station.