{"id":1515,"date":"2010-04-06T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:58:46","slug":"manorburn-dam-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Manorburn dam history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fishing through my families old photo albums and found the following photos of the Manorburn dam from the past that some of you may find interesting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1517\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1517\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1517\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0015-440x269.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/nannas_writing_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1517\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1522\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/nannas_writing_1-440x231.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Auntie Lynn, Ronald Hellyer, Pamela Hopkins, Uncle John, Dad and Robyn on the central basin of the Manorburn dam in 1954. The hand writing is courtesy of my Nana.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1516\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1516\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1516\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0005-440x326.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/nanas_writing_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1516\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1526\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/nanas_writing_2-440x247.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left is Ronald Hellyer, my Dad, some random guy, Phylis Hellyer and John Hellyer on the Manorburn dam in 1952.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1518\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1518\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1518\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0059-440x440.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dad on the Manorburn dam some time around 1970.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1520\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/scott_19840038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1520\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/scott_19840038-440x433.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dad on the Manorburn dam some time around 1970.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1521\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/scott_manorburn_dam_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1521\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1521\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/scott_manorburn_dam_1-440x564.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"564\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is my brother Scott on the tiny ice cube they called a rink which sat beside the Manorburn dam. This would have been around 1984 I think.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1519\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/scan0105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1519\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1519\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/scan0105-439x327.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And this is Scott demonstrating why I&#039;m the one who&#039;s still skating!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fishing through my families old photo albums and found the following photos of the Manorburn dam from the past that some of you may find interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,13],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-manorburn","tag-skating","last-post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Manorburn dam history - Ryan Hellyer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manorburn dam history - Ryan Hellyer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been fishing through my families old photo albums and found the following photos of the Manorburn dam from the past that some of you may find interesting.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ryan Hellyer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-06T00:06:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-12T20:58:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0015-440x269.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ryan Hellyer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ryan Hellyer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/\",\"name\":\"Manorburn dam history - Ryan Hellyer\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0015-440x269.avif\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-06T00:06:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-12T20:58:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/#\/schema\/person\/a2dbb3835ebf13f64495544ac7e2483d\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0015-440x269.avif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2010\/04\/dads40th_0015-440x269.avif\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2010\/manorburn-dam-history\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Manorburn dam history\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/\",\"name\":\"Ryan Hellyer\",\"description\":\"One man. 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