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

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of Siberia, once a grand homestead located about 16 kilometres from Ashhurst.

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          September 14, 2019

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 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 house at 490 Church Street, which was built c.1900, burned down during the evening 12th of April 2020 - during the alert level 4 lockdown of the Covid19 outbreak. News reports say it is being treated as suspicious, as a man was seen runnin...

Creator:      Benjamin Foster
Place:          490 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 26, 2020

This house was damaged by a fire which was started by grass under it in the early hours of 21st of March 2020. Another house down the road (number 490) also burned down sometime after.

The property was for sale for re-development at time...

Creator:      Benjamin Foster
Place:          516 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 26, 2020