{"id":62365,"date":"2010-01-25T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=62365"},"modified":"2024-05-27T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:42:21","slug":"loftus-fire-crew-1978-at-ici-wilton-on-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=62365","title":{"rendered":"Loftus Fire Crew &#8211; 1978 &#8211; at ICI Wilton on exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Loftus-Fire-Station-Crew-001-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62364\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9792746113989638;width:806px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Loftus-Fire-Station-Crew-001-a-1.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Loftus-Fire-Station-Crew-001-a-1-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Loftus-Fire-Station-Crew-001-a-1-147x150.jpg 147w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Loftus-Fire-Station-Crew-001-a-1-400x409.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Loftus Fire Station Crew on exercise at ICI Wilton in 1978.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Back row: Ken Verrill, Colin Gallilee, Ivan Gallilee (Station Officer @ Loftus), Jerry McElvaney.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Front Row: Bill Hicks, Keith Gallilee.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bill Hicks worked at ICI Wilton as a fireman and subsequently became Station Officer @ Loftus, replacing Ivan Gallilee. ICI Wilton were very supportive of local retained fire crews and offered additional training sessions. Ivan was father of Colin and Keith.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Preston advises: &#8220;The Gallilee family had had a long firefighting tradition, Ivan\u2019s dad (my step grandfather) Fred was also in the brigade and I can recall him telling stories of having to catch the horse to pull the pump.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Eileen Hicks, thank to John Preston for the update on the Gallilee family.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Loftus Fire Station Crew on exercise at ICI Wilton in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Back row: Ken Verrill, Colin Gallilee, Ivan Gallilee (Station Officer @ Loftus), Jerry McElvaney.<\/p>\n<p>Front Row: Bill Hicks, Keith Gallilee.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Hicks worked at ICI Wilton as a fireman and subsequently became Station Officer @ Loftus, replacing Ivan Gallilee. ICI Wilton were very [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-service","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78732,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365\/revisions\/78732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}