Historical information

The Sunshine Metropolitan Fire Station, built in 1927 at the corner of Hampshire Road and Hertford Street, served as Sunshine’s main fire station for decades. Designed by noted architect Cedric Ballantyne, it is one of the suburb’s most ornate public buildings and a key symbol of Sunshine’s rapid expansion during the inter‑war period.

It closed around 1990 and was later restored and repurposed as the Tobin Brothers “Legacy of Life” Chapel.”

Significance

The Sunshine Fire Station on Hampshire Road is one of Sunshine’s most historically significant civic buildings, a landmark of the suburb’s inter‑war growth, its industrial identity, and its long relationship with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.

These photographs were taken after the fire station closed and relocated to McIntyre Road in Sunshine North, but before the building was restored and repurposed for use by Tobin Brothers.

The residential part of the fire station, the adjoining house in Berkshire Road has been demolished.

Physical description

Digital scans of black and white negatives

Inscriptions & markings

State Of Fire Station Hampshire Rd Sunshine