Yesterday Today | Bathurst Fire Station in 1902

By Alan McRae
August 19 2019 - 6:30am
FUN AND GAMES: The members of the Bathurst Fire Station obtained a fine billiard table in May 1902. There were plans to challenge the School of Arts at billiards.
FUN AND GAMES: The members of the Bathurst Fire Station obtained a fine billiard table in May 1902. There were plans to challenge the School of Arts at billiards.

OUR photo this week shows a busy scene in front of the Bathurst Fire Station in William Street around 1902. There are two horse-drawn vehicles, one drawn by a pair of horses and the other by one horse.

The fire captain at the time was Captain Butcher, who said the Bathurst Brigade was the best equipped country brigade in NSW in the way of firefighting appliances and amusements for the men.

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