Look back at the station | Digging up the past

By Digging Up the Past
November 24 2021 - 5:00pm
HISTORY: In 1873 the volunteer fire Brigade became incorporated into the Country Fire Brigades Board and became known as the Stawell Fire Brigade.
HISTORY: In 1873 the volunteer fire Brigade became incorporated into the Country Fire Brigades Board and became known as the Stawell Fire Brigade.

When the disastrous "Great Fire of Main Street" occurred at the top end of Main Street, Reefs, Pleasant Creek (as Stawell was then known) on February 20 1866, it resulted in the formation of the Pleasant Creek Volunteer Fire Brigade.

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