On 12 June 1961, Mr C M A Kebbell's two-storey home near Ashhurst was badly damaged by fire. Furniture and other personal effects were retrieved from the house by neighbours and firefighters, until the strengh of the fire became too severe.
This i...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Date: June 1961
Manawatu Photorama was published between 1959 and 1964 by Frank Goldingham. It featured social occasions, sports events and city events and perfomances photographed both by Mr. Goldingham and contributing photographers.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: September 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.
Caption: “The Rosebowl Tearooms Foxton, which were extensively damaged by fire. The dining room was almost completely destroyed.”
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Foxton
Date: September 1960
These images were likely taken by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine. Two were published in the June 1960 edition.
Caption: Photographs of the fatal fire at Motuiti Road, Foxton, in which Mrs Rere Moana Kauri and her 4 1/2 year old...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Foxton
Date: June 1960
Manawatu Photorama was published between 1959 and 1964 by Frank Goldingham. It featured social occasions, sports events and city events and perfomances photographed both by Mr. Goldingham and contributing photographers.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Manawatu and Horowhenua
Date: April 1963
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 8 September 1976 with the caption, "Detective Sergeant Mick Glynn of Palmerston North CIB searches through the ashes under the grandstand's canteen counter." Since publi...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: September 1976
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 8 September 1976 with the caption, "Detective Sergeant Mick Glynn of Palmerston North CIB searches through the ashes under the grandstand's canteen counter." Identified ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: September 1976
Trees and flax caught fire in The Square at 4.45pm on Friday 16 July, 2020. The fire brigade had it quickly under control, preventing the fire spreading to the adjacent City Council building and restaurants. The source of the fire was unknown and ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Library
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: July 16, 2020
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 February, 1964. "Ashhurst and Woodville firemen "mopping up" small pockets of fire from the road in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday. Engines from three brigades attended the f...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 February, 1964. "Ashhurst and Woodville firemen "mopping up" small pockets of fire from the road in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday. Engines from three brigades attended...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 February, 1964. "Ashhurst and Woodville firemen "mopping up" small pockets of fire from the road in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday. Engines from three brigades attended the f...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 February, 1964. "A double-ended grinder (right) was the only thing left standing after this woolshed was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon on the property of Mr A...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 June 1961 "Furniture, household fittings and personal effects are seen hurriedly placed out of the way of the fire in front of Mr. C.M.A. Kebbell's two-storey home ne...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ashhurst
Date: June 13, 1961
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 February, 1964. "Ashhurst and Woodville firemen "mopping up" small pockets of fire from the road in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday. Engines from three brigades attended the f...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 July 1958, page 6: "Late on Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in the factory of Metalcraft Industries Ltd. At the corner of Church and Snelson Streets. The fire was...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Church and Snelson Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 14, 1958
[Side view of house with firemen and firehose aimed at blaze. Image not found in collection]
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: North Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 24, 1956
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 April 1961 "A Horowhenua Electric Power Board faultman (Mr. B. Naef) removing fuses from the box adjoining the razed Cash Drapery shop and the burned-out Alan Newbold...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Otaki
Date: April 12, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 April 1958, page 10: "The Kainga Moe Rest Home had scaffolding erected where painters were working, when the fire broke out which razed the building to the ground. By...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Long Melford Road, Palmerston North
Date: April 10, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 November 1956: "Firemen of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade had a difficult fight to gain control of the flames which gutted the upper storey of this house in Colleg...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: College Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 24, 1956
This negative was found loose in a packet from August 1969, but does not seem to be related to the other images in the set. It was taken by a Manawatu Evening Standard photographer.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1969
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 July, 1959. "Mr and Mrs N. E. Jennings, with two of their six children, Marion and David, stand against the background of their house which was destroyed by fire yest...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Okuku Road, Shannon
Date: 1959-07-29T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 July 1958, page 6: "Late on Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in the factory of Metalcraft Industries Ltd. At the corner of Church and Snelson Streets. The fire was...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Church and Snelson Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 14, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 July 1961 "The remains of the Whakarongo Soap Company's premises seen today still smouldering and small fires burning hours after the initial alarm was raised. The fa...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Whakarongo
Date: July 10, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 July, 1959. "This heap of rubble, ash, twisted iron and two chimneys was once the nine-roomed home of the Jennings family in Okuku Road, near Shannon. The family los...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Okuku Road, Shannon
Date: 1959-07-29T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 June, 1959. "Amid the ruins of the office portion of the premises, Mr C. W. Teppett (right) and Mr F. J. King, Junr., are here sorting out legible records from the ch...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Date: 1959-06-26T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 June 1961 "During the height of the fire in the top storey of Mr. C.M.A. Kebbell's home at Ashhurst yesterday Palmerston North Fire Brigade members hosing down the ha...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ashhurst
Date: June 13, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 April 1961 "…Yesterday morning's fire at Otaki Railway. On the left a grocer on the opposite side of the road points to a crack in his window caused by the intense he...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Otaki
Date: April 12, 1961
Fire at High Flyers - Old Post Office Building corner of Main St and The Square
Creator: Philippa Elphick
Place: The Square
Date: October 2021
Fire at High Flyers - Old Post Office Building corner of Main St and The Square
Creator: Philippa Elphick
Place: The Square
Date: October 18, 2021
This photograph shows smoke billowing from the front of the building that housed the Alan Bramwell Drapery. It is unknown where this building is, but based on photographs that are in the same collection it is estimated the fire happened in the 1950s.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: unknown
Date: 1950s