Female volunteer firefighters at Brunner rolling out a hose. Pictured left is Nancy Wylie.
A burst water hydrant floods Durham Street outside the Methodist Church.
Images from the Star copy prints collection, 1980. Image credit: John Truesdale uses a gas stove to cook dinner after the Municipal Electricity Department (MED) cut the power. CCL-StarP-02985A. The...
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.
A Labour Department explosives store, near to the one which exploded in Cass Bay.
The remains of a Labour Department explosives store in Cass Bay which exploded.
A detective and a post office official examine an exploded postal box at the Walker Street post office.
The Walker Street post office where a bomb was placed in the postal box.
View of the feeder hopper where the fluoride is added to the water supply at the fluoridation plant, Jeffreys Road.
Inspectors of the Department of Internal Affairs, G. Persen (left) and H. Richards, with a box of gelignite found in a woolshed on a property at 309 Mount Pleasant Road. It was unclear who put the...
Explosives for the New Zealand Army being unloaded from the frigate Blackpool at Lyttelton.
Captain E. D. Gerard, of Army District Headquarters, an explosives expert, handling a 3in mortar bomb found by police divers in the Avon River near the Wainoni Bridge. It turned out that it was a...
Rocks falling from a cliff above Moa Bone Point Cave at Redcliffs following a dynamite charge explosion in an attempt to dislodge a rock outcrop in the area.
A hydraulic platform is used to place dynamite charges at a cliff near Shag Rock and Redcliffs.
Sergeant I. M. Russell (left) and Lance Corporal J. Ryal with the remains of a 19th century shell dredged from Lyttelton Harbour and then cracked open at West Melton where it was found to not have a...
Demonstration of rescue techniques at linemen's school.
Labour Department explosives consultant, Laurie Stephenson (left), watches P.O. Nee, a department safety inspector, fit a fuse into a stick of gelignite, during the final day of a course in the safe...
Remains of a damaged building at Anderson Limited after an explosion of a gas cylinder.
Damage to the bitumen delivery and blending tank at Shell Oil Company's bulk bitumen installation in Lyttelton, after it exploded.
Sue Cooke and Stephen Gleeson selling art work from a cart to raise funds for their friend and fellow artist Marian Maguire to study at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico.
John Fisher with father, David Fisher, of H. Fisher and Son art dealers at 691 Colombo Street.
View of sculptor, Llew Summers.
A sculpture made from timber offcuts for a "Trash-into-Art" display at the Christchurch Arts Centre. Pictured are, from left, Sinead O'Hanlon, Maria O'Connell, Fiona O'Hanlon, Taryn Newton, Kirstie...
Steel towers, discontinued by the New Zealand Electricity Department, stock piled at the Gilberthorpes Road depot.