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Firehouse Restaurant Nightclub entrance at 293 Colombo Street, Sydenham, Christchurch, showing the distinctive arched awning and a doorman in bow tie

The Fire House Nightclub

The former Sydenham Fire Station at 293 Colombo Street had two lives as a music venue: Wayne Manor from 1979, hosting Christchurch’s early punk and post-punk scene in a BYO cavernous station space, and The Firehouse Nightclub from 1985 — a more polished club that survived a bomb attack and a gunman before ironically being destroyed by fire around 1990.