Station Dedication
Constructed: 1880, decommissioned 1975
Status: Inactive, private residence
Architect:
Previous Locations: 550 Commissioners Rd W
160 Bruce St
London, ON
Brief History or Facts
160 Bruce Street
1880-1975
Converted to private residence.
Vehicles
Original apparatus were drawn by horses
Station News:
July 2013
Station 3, then and now
Source: Facebook -Vintage London, Ontario
August 1975
Epitaph of a Firehall
London’s oldest fire station is now an empty boarded-up building at 160 Bruce St.
June 1975
Bruce Street loses family friend
Old No. 3 firehall on Bruce Street has been boarded up after serving its neighborhood since 1880.
May 1975
‘Uncles’ all gone
By Sam McLeod of The Free Press Many a fond memory is all that’s left to reflect upon for five-year-old Mary Rogers and hundreds of other children who lived in the Bruce Street area of...
May 1965
November 1959
October 1956
Unit 20 at Station 3
Sitting on the apron of old Station 3 on Bruce St is the 1954 International R185/Bickle Seagrave 500/500 pump that London acquired when Byron was annexed in 1961. It continued to run from the Byron hall as Engine 6 until the mid seventies. It then was a spare pump for a few years. It is filling in for Engine 3 in this pic.
