Handsworth Community Fire Station

Okay — the boring basic stuff about this place is that it’s not JUST a fire station, but as a community venue it has local businesses based there, and rooms available to hire out for conferences with all the usual shenanigans you might expect.
What is AWESOME about this particular station is the ‘Red Hot Education Centre’ which I managed to have a quick look around when I was doing some work in Handsworth. They’ve built a pretend house inside the station which you get to explore to try to identify the risks of fire — and after trying to identify them, you get to witness through windows looking in what actually could happen to such a house. Scary, and exciting, and totally engaging! Definitely worth a visit — particularly if you’re doing work with groups about fire safety in the home. Plus the guys who work there are really very friendly and helpful (though don’t be surprised if they pester you incessantly about getting a smoke alarm test done!)