Fire stations
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
(10) Tay Street with Old Royal Hotel and Fire Station, c.1865
Component — Box ICC-0998: Series S2752
Identifier: S27520001_010
Scope and Contents
Tay Street - South side crossing over Nith Street and along to Clyde Street showing the first Ott family cottage, Old Royal Hotel and Fire Engine House and Belltower. Block XII Sections 1, 2 and 3.
Related photos are 78, 70, 62, 68 and 32.
Related photos are 78, 70, 62, 68 and 32.
Dates:
c.1865
BAKER, Alexander Donald (Donny) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 48
Identifier: H0533
Overview
Donny is one of a handful of residents in the Te Anau basin who can provide first hand accounts of the life and times of the district as far back as the 1930s. As he said off-tape, it is difficult to give a complete picture of events in just a couple of hour’s conversation. However, his comments and come of his early photographs illustrate much of a bygone era.
Dates:
2004
Fire Station, Tay Street. After Fire., 1900
Item — Box 1: Series S0078; Series S0094; Series S0308
Identifier: S00780002
HANCOX, Harold Godfrey interviewed by Gloria Elaine McHutchon
Record Group
Identifier: H0654
Overview
In this interview, Harold talks about how his family came to Tapanui. He describes his childhood, education, and his work at the local garage. He describes the setting up of the Blue Mountain Search and Rescue in 1965, is role as a convenor, working with the police, and his work in the community as a councillor, Justice of the Peace member of Presbyterian Support Otago. Harold details the changes in the area brought about by "Rogernomics": closing of two saw mills and loss of people and...
Dates:
2024
Invercargill Fire Station, Tay Street, c.1895
Item — Box 2: Series S0079; Series S0094
Identifier: S00940035
Scope and Contents
Posed group photo of the Invercargill Fire Brigade in uniform with their horses and equipment outside the Tay Street Station. Photographer is Karl Gerstenkorn, Invercargill.
Dates:
c.1895
Invercargill Fire Station, Tay Street
Digital Image
Identifier: D00940035
Dates:
c.1895
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Old Fire Station [5 b/w photos], c.1950s
Item — Box 13: Series S2726
Identifier: S27260010
RADFORD, Walter George interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 49
Identifier: H0537
Overview
George's introduction to Te Anau coincided with his involvement in the development of the Te Anau glow worm caves in 1948. The town was still village-sized when he and his wife Alma decided a year later to set up a small grocery shop amid the handful of cribs that existed between the manuka scrub on the lakefront. George has been a founding member of a few organisations in the town and instrumental in forming the Te Anau Volunteer Fire Brigade which in 2004 celebrated its 50th anniversary. In...
Dates:
2004
Tay Street with Old Royal Hotel and Fire Station
Digital Image
Identifier: D27520001_010
Dates:
c.1865
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
VON TUNZELMAN, John Russell Francis interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 48
Identifier: H0532
Overview
In this interview John talks at length about his family origins in Estonia and the lives of his forebears who came to New Zealand in the 1850s. John was born in Otautau and moved to Dunedin after he started primary school. John’s family later moved to Waitati and it was here that John’s involvement with deer hunting started. John started with the Forest service in 1959 and in the early 1960s John and his wife Aloma moved to Te Anau. As well as hunting, John describes his role in search and...
Dates:
2004