A fire officer who rescued five people from a fourth-floor ledge during a blaze at a city centre department store was laid to rest on Monday.
In 1960, a then-31-year-old George Taylor was the 'leading fireman' at Hatton Garden Fire Station in Liverpool city centre. On June 20 of that year, a fire broke out in the Henderson's department store on Church Street.
The store was full of hundreds of staff and customers as the fire tore through the building. George ascended a 100 ft. turntable ladder to rescue people stranded on an exterior ledge of the fourth floor in their effort to escape the raging flames and smoke within.
