This 18-20 roomed house was built by William Coomb’s wife Alice upon returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. Known by the family as 'Birchanger', it was designed by C W Blackbourn as a replica of their Hawkes B...

Creator:      Nina Coombs
Place:          544 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1912

This 18-20 roomed house was built by William Coomb’s wife Alice upon returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. Known by the family as 'Birchanger', it was designed by C W Blackbourn as a replica of their Hawkes B...

Creator:      Nina Coombs
Place:          537 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929

This 18-20 roomed house was built by William Coomb’s wife Alice upon returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. Known by the family as 'Birchanger', it was designed by C W Blackbourn as a replica of their Hawkes B...

Creator:      Nina Coombs
Place:          544 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929

This 18-20 roomed house was built by William Coomb’s wife Alice upon returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. Known by the family as 'Birchanger', it was designed by C W Blackbourn as a replica of their Hawkes B...

Creator:      Nina Coombs
Place:          544 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929

Marriage of John Elliot Lindsay Gardner to Nina Edith Coombs. Nina Coombs was the daughter of Alice and William Coombs. The photograph is taken on the dining room steps of the Coombs home, 'Birchanger' in Featheston Street, built c1908, which late...

Creator:      J E Lewis
Place:          544 Featherston Street, Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1925

Alice Coombs, the wife of William Coombs. lived in Hawkes Bay until returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. She died in 1940 at the age of 82. The photograph was taken prior to Nina Coombs wedding in 1925.

Creator:      Nina Coombs
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929