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Toora Fire Brigade Station

Location 20 Gray Street TOORA, South Gippsland Shire Level Demolished/Removed

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The Toora Fire Brigade Station, designed by the Country Fire Brigade Architect and constructed by Seton & Snell in 1933 and the bell tower added in 1938, at 20 Gray Street, Toora.

Why is it Significant?
The Toora Fire Brigade Station is of local historic significance to South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, it is significant as the oldest fire brigade station in South Gippsland Shire and demonstrates the beginnings of volunteer rural fire brigades. The bell tower commemorates the official inauguration of the brigade in 1938 by the Country Fires Brigade, the predecessor of the Country Fire Authority. (AHC criteria A4, D2 and H1)