More Info →Palmerston North Volunteer Fire Brigade

The Palmerston North Volunteer Fire Brigade was established in 1883. Shown here is the first proper fire station, which was located in Coleman Place and in use from the late 1880s to 1910, when a new brick Fire Station was constructed in Cuba Street. On the upstairs windows of this building can be seen “Circulating Library”, a reminder that the Fire Brigade operated a lending Library at a time when there was not a Public Library provided by the Borough Council. The Coleman Place Fire Station stood on land owned by the Borough Council after the Fire Brigade shifted to new premises, the building was moved back on its site to make way for ‘Everybody’s Theatre’ to be constructed. The building then housed the museum of the Manawatu philosophical Society. After fire damage in 1927 the building was replaced with a block of brick shops. The bell tower was then demolished and the bell installed in a new tower behind the Cuba Street Station.