Pounds Park

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Pounds Park, named after the City's first Fire Officer, John Charles Pound (c.1833 - 1918). Opened 3rd April 2023, on the site of the former South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Command HQ, Wellington Street Fire Station, Wellington Street.

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Dedication of a Plaque in Pounds Park, 27th May 2023. Tom Hunt, Leader of Sheffield City Council and Gordon Smith, great-grandson of Sheffield's first Fire Officer.

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John Charles Pound (c.1833-1918), Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, c.1870s

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Pound was born in Sittingbourne in Kent c.1833. In the 1850s he was a fireman at Lambeth; He relocated to Sheffield c.1870. In the 1880s he was living at Balm Green with his wife and seven children.  His first two children were born in Surrey – the remainder in Sheffield.

During his time at Sheffield he applied to join Birmingham and Glasgow fire services but presumably was unsuccessful. He resigned from the Sheffield Fire Service in September 1895.

He died on 25th October 1918 and was buried in the Sheffield General Cemetery.

 

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Command HQ, Wellington Street Fire Station, Wellington Street. 1st May 1987. Now the site of Pounds Park. 

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