London Fire Brigade-Soho Fire Station Late 1980s

[@DMHS77]

This is what the London I came to for work from Ireland in the 80's still looks like in my mind. Was like another world from small village I'm originally from. Hard work, good people by and large and great craic.

[@iainv4092]

Lighting was shocking in those days but the sirens were always better.

[@JoeStudd96]

Finally some Soho footage of A781 TYO. The only LFB SS to be fitted with wailer sirens rather than two tones and the only one currently in preservation. EDIT: A781 TYO is currently the only fully restored LFB SS, however the North East Emergency Vehicle Society are currently restoring NYV 705Y and NYV 729Y using parts from NYV 700Y. 700 is intact but is not in a great way so she is being broken to help get 705+729, which are both in much better nick, to pristine condition. Also interesting, in this, A781 TYO is the pump ladder with A795 TYO as the pump, as I assumed it was throughout the late 80s and very early 90s. In your other Soho videos, mind, 795 is the pump ladder with 781 nowhere to be seen despite the fact she was the Soho PL in 1987 and at least into the mid 90s, so maybe she was in the workshop on the days you'd filmed the station, where 795 had been 'promoted' or however you describe it.

[@donnaphilbin6563]

SO 💎

[@jamesfrench7299]

Give the mate who put you up to this a high five for me will you? Love the roar of the V8 mixed with the siren. I grew up with Aussie built Internationals with petrol V8s roaring with a loud siren, so this is so relatable.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I wasn't too keen at the time filming lorries and fire appliances but now i'm glad i did!

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus so are several hundred viewers and counting.

[@danshillabeer9523]

Drove that one when it first came. Playing with the wailers - so much fun. Got bollocked by a PC for doing an extended siren test at change of watch with the bay doors open. Public relations we called it

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Typical nosey copper.......

[@OdesaRescue]

Thank you for cool old videos!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

M y pleasure......

[@ezzyfiretv8922]

I haven't seen a HP in years, good old days with the two tone siren

[@user-TROOPER42]

Dagenham station still has a Volvo hp I service mainly used as a spear

[@kevinward3088]

Thanks for posting. As featured in the first Londons Burning episodes. This was the London I remember , having worked in the Big Smoke for a short while. Later , lugging heavy Army & personal kit , from Aldershot - Waterloo , then to Kings Cross , via the tube , then home. Good job we were Para fit , often the only way back up was the lenghty flights of stairs.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks for your memories.... I've walked up plenty of stairs on the Underground in my time working for them.....

[@pauldevenish]

00:34 - Flashback seeing the old Mercury phonebox!

[@clansman66]

Brilliant video, does look odd looking back at no reflector strips, chevrons etc on the back of any of the engines, a few years to go until they were introduced.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, they are a real snap-shot in time.....

[@adamcrane1436]

Hello @@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@adamcrane1436 hello Adam.....

[@billlybunter]

Only just discovered your channel my friend, brilliant!!! Straight back to my teens growing up in the area😊

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you... plenty of heritage uploads still to come.....

[@joemcconnell2674]

I remember the part time fire stations in the uk back then. I remember out playing in the street and hearing the air raid siren. Blasted for around two minutes before lowering down and fading out.

[@greigshearer5614]

They are like the dirtiest pollution, loudest things ever, you have to love it! 😂🚒🚒🚒🚒

[@hayleywilliams8750]

Is thus the same soho that responded to the kings cross fire 1987 and lost staition officer Colin j townley

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, this is the station......

[@hayleywilliams8750]

​@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus thanks

[@EnidAgnusDei]

Listen to those beautiful Perkins V8 engines!

[@EnidAgnusDei]

And the HCB-Angus X reg Dodge looks a well-abused old machine by the dints in it.

[@BumberenzoThePumperTruck]

1:49 I like those yelps and two tones!

[@BumberenzoThePumperTruck]

I can’t believe that these sirens are slowly being thrown away. They’re beautiful.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Very interesting targa top Mini cabriolet there behind the Kentish Bus Olympian 2:19

[@sirjohnbuoy8159]

Looks like a sandal

[@supertrinigamer]

London's burning anyone? :)

[@robv7340]

Close call at 4:43 did the bus driver even check his offside mirror ?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Probably not!

[@Aberdeen999videos]

Great video of the good old dennis's! One question was it filmed around 1989?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it was around that time.....

[@Charlzey1998]

I'm guessing mid-late 89 as they changed the callsigns that year?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I wouldn't really know, it was my mate that had me film these.....

[@Charlzey1998]

And i must say for the 80s thats quality footage as most people where i lived at the time told me they had barely enough to buy one of them Super Cine 8 things 😂

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@Charlzey1998 I was lucky enough to buy a camera that took full sized E180 VHS tapes. So unlike the small video 8 system, i never had to copy my films off onto larger tapes. That kept the quality up, and transfering to DVD didn't loose any quality either!

[@captured911]

Awesome clips :O

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.....

[@david-stewart]

Great weather too 😊👍

[@sirjohnbuoy8159]

Fair play to them. Must have large underpants to drive round London at that speed, even back then.

[@firejam78]

Busier than a knocking shop door

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

This station is right in the centre of London. Lots of tall buildings around, so any calls to a high-ish building the TL automatically gets called out....

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Never seen a Shelvoke SPV HP before!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I think the LFB had a few of those, but it was my mate who was the FB enthusiast.....

[@YelpBullhorn]

West Midlands FS had a couple of them too, a half cab and one with a crew cab. Both SS263s.

[@JoeStudd96]

Shelvoke WY hydraulic platform. The LFB had 10 of those in addition to their 48 WX pump escapes.

[@samanli-tw3id]

The wail/yelp invasion had just begun than.

[@Mbard333]

Do you have any of the dodge pumps turning out

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Possibly, i will have to check. The TL/HP got a lot more calls due to all the high buildings in central London....

[@Mbard333]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus would have been nice to see the Essex ones turning out one of their HPs got written off in 1994

[@YelpBullhorn]

Proper appliances. Not like the shit we have nowadays.

[@paxundpeace9970]

12 new 30 Meter ladders 3 new 64 Meter ladders.

[@YelpBullhorn]

@@paxundpeace9970 ...... yeah but on the shit Scania platform - to go with the shit Mercedes platforms that the pumps are built on. Today only Volvo come anywhere *close to the Dennis, Shelvoke & Drewry, and Dodge chassis that LFB’s extensive fleet was built on. Largely these were purpose-built fire appliances - tough, capable and reliable, and not badly-converted HGVs by mediocre fire appliance bodybuilder firms. *And when I say, “anywhere close to”, I’m being generous!

[@AndreiTupolev]

Convenient location, but a ******** to get in & out of, there.