Fire crews return home after building upgrades

Crews are now back again working from The Mounts Fire Station

Firefighters have returned to their original home after essential work was completed.

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue moved crews from the Mounts in central Northampton to Mereway on the edge of town on 18 August - and returned on Monday.

The station, the oldest in Northamptonshire, needed urgent electrical upgrades that could not be carried out safely while the crews were operating from the building, the service said.

The Mounts fire station in Upper Mounts opened on the site of a former jail on 30 July 1935.

The Mounts fire station in central Northampton is 90 years old

The Mounts station had its facade restored earlier this year.

Some of the Bath stone used in the original construction was worked on, with repairs also carried out on a Northampton crest above the bay doors.

The electrical repair work started on 18 August and took about four weeks to complete.