One of the auxiliary fire centre set up in Nottingham in the run up to the Second World War was based on Triumph Road. After the war the National Fire Service decided to close their Triumph Road base. When Nottingham City Council resumed responsibility for the fire service in 1948 it decided to reinstate the Lenton fire centre although it moved to another site on Triumph Road. Back in 1949 the Corporation wanted to build a new replacement fire station on Abbey Street but couldn't get Home Office approval for it until 1958. This photograph shows work on the Dunkirk Fire Station on Abbey Street nearing completion in 1960.

After a few months spent bedding in, an official opening ceremony was held at the fire station on 6th April 1961 when the guest of honour was Henry Martin Smith, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of the Fire Service.

When Dunkirk Fire Station opened it had three appliances based there. These were a Commer water tender, a Rolls Dennis pump escape and an old open-bodied Merryweather turntable ladder. All of which can be seen in this photograph. After a short while the turntable ladder was exchanged for a tiny Commer. This was needed if a call came in from Dunkirk Industrial Estate as it was the only appliance small enough to pass beneath the railway bridge on Dunkirk Road

A 1986 photograph showing a Dennis Simon Snorkel, with its hydraulic platform, parked in the yard at the back of the Dunkirk Fire Station.

In this photograph, almost certainly taken at the same time as the previous photograph, the Dennis Simon Snorkel is parked up alongside another Dennis fire vehicle, which were both produced by Dennis Specialist Vehicles of Guildford, Surrey.

In 1988/89 one of the three fire engine bays at Dunkirk was converted into dormitories along with office space for the Fire Prevention team. The filled in bay can be seen in this 2005 photograph.

This photograph was taken from the top of the fire tower at Dunkirk Fire Station in 1986 and focuses on the first Dunkirk flyover which was erected in 1968/69.

A new £4.7 million Highfields Fire Station based on Hassock Lane, Beeston, was officially opened in February 2009 by the Princess Royal. This meant the end of both the Dunkirk Fire Station and Beeston Fire Station on Station Street, Beeston. This photograph shows the exterior of the Dunkirk Fire Station all boarded up in 2009 and waiting for its subsequent demolition in 2012.

A close-up of the Dunkirk property in 2009 - no longer required by the fire service.

A third shot of the boarded-up fire station. We don't have a shot of it but no doubt the rear of the building was boarded up in a similar fashion.

This photograph was taken by Alan Murray-Rust in June 2012 when the demolition men had finally moved on to the site. The original version of this photograph can be viewed by clicking here.

Taken by Alan-Murray-Rust at the same time as the previous photograph we can see that all that remains of Dunkirk Fire station are the various piles of rubble. The original version of this photograph can be viewed by clicking here.

Now occupying the site of of Dunkirk Fire Station is the Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology [NUAST] which now caters for 11 to 19 year olds and which first opened in 2014.