Vintage fire engines bought via an auction website will feature in a re-enactment marking the 70th anniversary of Nottinghamshire’s worst wartime bombing raid.
The National Fire Service Display Group, whose members include, left, Mr Rob Leese and Mr David Moore, is taking part in a re-enactment at Nottingham this coming weekend.
Mr David Moore, of Station Road, Lowdham, a member of the National Fire Service Display Group, will take his two vehicles to Nottingham this weekend for the re-enactment.
Mr Moore bought the vehicles, a 1943 Austin K4 Turntable Ladder and a 1941 Fordson Escape Carrying Unit, on eBay.
He has been a member of the display group for about three years and travels across the country taking part in 1940s re-enactments.
The group will take over the main appliance room and training yard of Central Fire Station, Nottingham, at the weekend.
On Saturday they will take part in demonstrations, including a re-enactment of a fire caused by a German bombing raid at the Council House, Old Market Square.
On Sunday morning members and some appliances will attend a memorial service for those who died in the Nottingham raid 70 years ago.
The event is raising money for a permanent memorial to the Nottinghamshire firefighters and civil defence workers who died in service during and since the war, including those who died at the raid on Ransome and Marles in Newark.
The display group, whose members are mainly from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, will also be at Clumber Park in June and Rufford Park in September.
Their aim is to bring the wartime National Fire Service back to life with displays of equipment used to put out fires during the blitz.
Although they cannot use live fires or bombs, they set up a wartime sub fire station and offer training in the use of the vintage equipment.
As well as Mr Moore’s two engines, the group also owns a 1941 Austin towing vehicle, a number of trailer pumps, and a range of other equipment, including uniforms, breathing apparatus, axes and stirrup pumps.
Mr Moore said the group’s attention to detail went as far as using period cups, urns, trestle tables and type writer.
Mr Moore, 49, a director of a company that develops electronic counting machines, began his collection of fire engines with a 1955 Bedford Green Goddess being sold by the government.
He also owns a 1961 Austin Gipsy.
Before joining the fire display group Mr Moore had been involved in 1940s re-enactments as a civilian using a pre-war car.
