Richard Ilderton
Richard belongs to: Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade
Richard is an Advanced Technician with the Ambulance Service. He joined the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade in 1993 and is a Section Leader.
Richard was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 18 January 2006. The interview took place at Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade and lasted 12 minutes and 17 seconds.
Familiar sounds
"I'm at the point where I’m quite sad, living on the coast and working for the ambulance service"
I'm at the point where I’m quite sad, living on the coast and working for the ambulance service, I’m now able to recognise an ambulance siren and a fire brigade siren and also ours as well. So if I’m not on pager or my pager hasn’t gone off, and I hear our siren for, the lads normally stick on the air horns as well if they’re trying to get through traffic, then I know it’s them and I ring up and I’ll find out what’s going on. So I guess the air horn on the Landrover, and Michael’s a bit over-zealous with the use of that just to make sure everyone knows he’s coming to get out the way.
Richard has 8 memories in the memorynet:
Richard's memories with a Community theme:
Joining the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade- The importance of volunteering with the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade
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Sounds and Smells
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