Items in 1965 - 1969 Christchurch Star photographs

Eric Holland operating a hose winding machine for fire fighting at the Central Fire Station at 200 Kilmore Street.

Firefighters moving hoses into a paddock off Kingsford Street, Burwood, during a training exercise at the edge of Bottle Lake Reserve.

Firefighters moving hoses into a paddock off Kingsford Street, Burwood, during a training exercise at the edge of Bottle Lake Reserve.

Dawn Jack (left), Torino Lyne and children outside the flats behind the fire headquarters where they live to be closer to their husbands' work at the Central Fire Station at 200 Kilmore Street.

Starlet Christine Sheehan (left) and Mark Crump, the first two students on the roll on the opening of Casebrook Intermediate School, with the head teacher Mr G. H. Watson in the school library.

Tests of flame proof children's nightwear at the Consumers' Institute on Durham Street.

Water being pumped from the flooded Falsgrave-Mowbray street subway.

Flooded park on Beachville Road.

Flooding at St Joseph's Cathedral School, Ferry Road.

Ted Howard, Hugh Elstrob and Albert Danick clean up flooding in a house on Herberden Street.

Flooding on Ebbtide Road, South Brighton.

Council traffic patrol car drives through Richardson Terrace in flood.

Float with decorative aeroplane made from flowers.

A. Hardaker, a pumping station attendant, recharging the feeder hopper at the fluoridation plant, Jeffreys Road.

Harvards fly over the laying of a wreath at the Citizens' War Memorial to commemorate the Battle of Britain.

Former Australia and New Zealand Bank stables on Hereford Street.

Former Caxton Press printing press on display at Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery during New Zealand library and book week, 1969.

A group of former residents of Disraeli Street in Addington at a reunion they hold every year in each others homes. Pictured are, from left, I. M. Craddock, J. Nickle and G. Trowbridge, with S. M...

View of fountains on the Avon River between Worcester Street and Cashel Street during the Pan Pacific Arts Festival.

Carrying vehicles lined up outside Canterbury Court to transport freight during the railway workers' strike.

Carrying vehicles lined up outside Canterbury Court to transport freight during the railway workers' strike.

Carrying vehicles lined up outside Canterbury Court to transport freight during the railway workers' strike.

A freight container being loaded on to a trailer at the Carlyle Street premises of Freightways.

Frozen meat in an insulated container being loaded into the hold of the Hauraki at Lyttelton.