Lyndhurst Street was a Mr Frederick Bryant subdivision. His wife, Mrs Mary Ann Bryant, was born near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, and the Bryant family moved there in 1899. This road is named after the st...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2025
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 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 December 1962, "Children over-ran a house during a fire alarm last night in Clyde Crescent. As soon as the engine arrived children were there in force. Firemen said...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Clyde Crescent, Palmerston North
Date: December 14, 1962
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 July, 1963. "Soon to be in service in the city is the Palmerston North Fire Board's new fire engine, valued at £4,900. It has now only to be fitted out with fire fight...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1963-06-27T00:00:00+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 1st February 1966 "A drenched fireman empties his boots after the water battle between Bunnythorpe and Palmerston North firemen at Milson Airport last night. (Report and...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date: February 1, 1966
A fireman can be seen at the top of a wooden extension ladder. Possible part of the parade/event in the Square with the display of vintage fire engines.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1970s
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
This photograph was part of a set of smaller photographs, showing portraits of the firemen in uniform. The following information is found on the back of the photograph: 'Present to Mrs D.H. MACARTHUR [wife of the Member of Parliament for Palmersto...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1888
Aerial photograph of the outdoor area of the Fire Brigade premises. To the left can be seen the holding pond which holds water used to wash the fire engines and for hose training. The Fire Brigade was established in Palmerston North in 1883, and t...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Cook Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 11, 1977
The Fire Brigade was established in Palmerston North in 1883. The Cook Street station was opened in 1977, at a cost of $1.8 million, and at the time was said to be the most up to date in New Zealand and Australia. The 25 metre tower is used to dry...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Cook Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 10, 1977
The Queen Elizabeth College gymnasium was built in 1966. The three year old building was destroyed by the fire during the day.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 7, 1969
The fire at the showgrounds was the largest of several mysterious fires in Palmerston North early on Sunday 15 May 1977. It destroyed the cattle pavilion, which was being used to store wool for Feltex Wools Ltd. The fire destroyed or damaged $1 mi...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 15, 1977
Albert Tingey (1863-1925) was the local manager of Messrs R & E Tingey, Painters and Decorators, Palmerston North. He served as a Borough councillor for Palmerston North 1893-1896, and was also Captain in the Fire Brigade for 25 years 1883–1908, i...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1888
This fire station was built in 1926, replacing an earlier one near by which was in use 1910-1926. The Fire Brigade was established in Palmerston North in 1883.
Creator: H Billens and Co.
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1930s
This fire engine replaced the old GM which was sent to Tangimoana, where it was in service until 1979. The Volunteer Fire Brigade was formed in 1955. See Campbelltown Rongotea (Ver Hunt, 2011) for more information on the fire service in Rongotea.
Creator: Morris Shailer
Place: Rongotea
Date: 1961
Firemen pulling a chemical extinguisher through Foxton, re-enacting fire fighting of the past.
Creator: The Times
Place: Foxton
Date: October 22, 1955
28 Ranfurly Street is a Category Two Historic Place. At the time of photographing, the house was due to be demolished after several fires damaged the property. It was built in 1905 by Frank Kirk....
Creator: Heather Glasgow - PNCC
Place: Ranfurly Street
Date: February 19, 2018
At the first Cuba Street Fire Station, Palmerston North, situated near the corner of George Street, 1910-1926. From left. On the Clydesdale engine: Unknown (rear); 'Paddy' Prentice; Coleman; Unknown (rear); Superintendent Barnard (seated); Unknown...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1922
Councillor Gordon R Kear turning the first sod for a new Fire Station which was constructed in Cook Street.
Creator: John Cleland Photo Studio Ltd
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 2, 1975
This factory was relocated in Palmerston North from Wellington three years prior to the fire. The company manufactured electric blankets, hair dryer’s, electric motors and cookware. It also specialised in plastic moulding and extrusion and applic...
Creator: M J Costello - Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 12, 1970
Painting of the fire that destroyed the Occidental Hotel in Palmerston North. The Occidental Hotel was on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square. this was the second building and after destruction a new Public Library was built on the sit...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square
Date: 1927
The old gasworks building was located near the railways sheds on Church Street West, which are possibly the ones on fire here. For a full account of the event, see Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9562, 5 August 1913, Page 5 in an article enti...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1913
This photograph shows smoke billowing from the front of the building that housed the Alan Bramwell Drapery. Also visible is Victor Dry Cleaners (left), a fruiterers (right) and a hairdressers that begins "Ray Barn-". It is unknown where this build...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Date: 1950s
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
This major fire severely damaged the Ralta Factory. Ralta manufactured electrical consumer goods, and some industrial goods.
Creator: Ross Setford - Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 12, 1970