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===Information found in Reports of Annual Dinners===
Speeches given at HVFB Annual Dinners at the time sometimes provide additional insight into the Brigade’s workings including fires attended, several outside the District, some involving work with the Chester VFB. In 1908 at the Bromfield Arms in Hoole, new uniforms, purchased with public contributions, were worn for the first time. In 1914 it was stated that the Council had provided a recreation room and a billiard table, also "The Brigade had done well in competitions".
====Fires Attended====
At the annual dinner in 1913 it was reported that some 50 fires had been attended since the Brigade's formation, nearly 20 years earlier, most of them outside the District . The low incidence of fires within Hoole itself was ammunition for those opposed to expenditure on the service. They advocated the use of the Chester Volunteer Brigade instead and on a wider scale complete amalgamation with Chester Town Council for all of its functions, but HVFB continued despite this.
Some of the fires and related incidents appear below:
April 1897 Chester Town Hall - worked with CVFB and Duke of Westminster's
Brigade from Eaton Hall.
Illustration FS 8 The fire at the Town Hall 1897
1897 Tomkinson Street house fire
1899 Chester Leadworks - worked with Leadworks own brigade and CVFB
Guilden Sutton haystack fire - new engine used
1900 Thornton Green- Thomas Jeffs - hay, cart and lurry ablaze
1903 Lawton's Coachworks, Chester - worked with CVFB
1909 Thornton-le-Moors church belfry
Hare Lane, James Richardson's farm haystack fire
1913 Wrexham Road, Edwards' farm haystack fire
1914 Picton Hall Farm haystack fire
Densons Store, Northgate Street - worked with CVFB
1916 Wervin, Chapel House Farm
Shotwick New Hall
1917 Parkgate House, Shotwick, dutch barn fire- with CVFB
Mossford Farm, Tattenhall, haystack fire
1918 Plough Lane, Christleton, hayrick fire - "because Mr Hallmark's horses
were drawing a carriage at a wedding attendance was delayed "
====Synopsis of Equipment 1899-1914====
===Other events and activities===
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