Gisborne<\/a> and Tolaga Bay stations. Glossy photos and histories of each abound, as well as chats with some of the personnel.<\/p>\n![\"Andrew]()
Andrew Shelton is pictured at the Tolaga Bay station in a new Kiwi book on fire stations by retired volunteer firefighter George Lockyer.<\/p>\n
London-born Lockyer lives in Governors Bay, Canterbury. <\/p>\n
He is the author of six books, including Iconic Kiwi Pubs, Kiwis on Harleys, The Long and Winding Aotearoa, Kiwi Garages and Living the Dream: Kiwi Bikers. <\/p>\n
He said he decided to write a book about fire stations \u201cbecause I\u2019d never seen a similar book in bookshops and thought it was high time\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough the book\u2019s title says Fire Stations, it\u2019s really about firefighters and their stories. And as a former firefighter, I had a feeling that there\u2019d be some good ones. And without stories, a verbal history, we have nothing.<\/p>\n
It was also noted that he rode a \u201ctrusty Kawasaki KLR 650 to many of the stations\u201d. <\/p>\n
Lockyer has already written a new book called Travels with Chog “about a motorcycle adventure my friend and I took in 1983-84 overland from the UK to India and [it] also contains reminiscences of growing up in working-class London in the 60s and 70s”. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to get it published for about 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statement adds: \u201cFire Stations of Aotearoa New Zealand also offers a glimpse into the evolving role of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1443,12889,1561,2108,489,1887,156,5071,2079,53851,12856,12506,78,8454,53853,117,111,139,69,1118,3227,25319,3757,12418,53852,7563,13115,7571,80],"class_list":["post-66753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-about","tag-aotearoa","tag-bay","tag-book","tag-books","tag-countrys","tag-entertainment","tag-feature","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-george","tag-gisborne","tag-in","tag-including","tag-lockyer","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-published","tag-retired","tag-seasoned","tag-stations","tag-storyteller","tag-those","tag-tolaga","tag-volunteer","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}