Liverpool Fire Hall, Main Street, Liverpool, Nova Scotia

The Second Parade School - site of the Liverpool Fire Hall

The Liverpool Fire Hall was located on Main Street in Liverpool for many years where Main Street Kwik Way is presently located, but in the 1970's plans were made to build a new fire hall. Further up the street at the corner of Main St. and what was then Shipyard Lane, stood an old school in an area of Liverpool known as the Parade. The building had not been used as a school for years so the Town of Liverpool Public Works Department used the old red brick building. Large equipment, plows, and trucks were a common sight behind the old school. But around the mid 1970's the building was demolished to make way for a new Fire Hall. The new fire hall was much larger and very modern, compared to the previous building and besides having an area to keep the fire trucks and ambulance, it also had a Firemen's club house upstairs and a kitchen and an area to hold functions, dances, etc. downstairs. The building was originally 2 colors. I believe the area where the fire trucks were kept was green and the area of the building where the hall area is, was yellow but several years ago the entire building was painted blue. The kitchen was moved to the rear of the building to a larger area and some years ago a monument was added at the front of the building with the names of departed Firemen and Ladies Aux.

The Liverpool Fire Hall in October 2011

members on it. The Liverpool Fire Department and Ladies Auxiliary has always been a volunteer organization and a group that has always been greatly appreciated and respected by the residents of Liverpool and Queens County. Many of the familiar faces of this organization, that I fondly remember when I was younger, have passed away. Who could ever forget people like Bazil and Margie Horton, Jackie and Edie Lloyd, Anna Whynot, Claude and Thelma Thorburne, Tony Whynot, Doug and Pat Wathen, Myrtle Boudreau, James Schrader, Lambert Roy and his mother Mae Whynot, Arnold Stafford, Butch Lilly, Bud Huey and so many more who were valued members of the Liverpool Fire Fighters Association and Ladies Auxiliary.