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Internally, the central vehicle bay has a concrete floor with timber floors to the locker room, recreation area and offices on each side. The ground floor walls have tongue and groove boards, the ceilings are boarded and a recessed bay with mottled glass panels opens off the vehicle bay to the locker
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The Ithaca Fire
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room. The first floor has tongue and groove boards to the walls, fibro-cement ceiling, terrazzo floors to the bathroom and toilet, and timber floors elsewhere. Some of the original fire station fittings survive.
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engine room / appliance bay (fire station), store/s / storeroom / storehouse, recreation area/room/building/hall/centre, wall/s – retaining, residential accommodation – staff quarters
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The fire station functioned until August 1992, when it was vacated. It was the longest operating fire station in the
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The ground floor of this timber and fibro-cement building was erected in 1918–19 as the headquarters of the Ithaca Fire
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on 2 March 1993 having satisfied the following criteria.
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