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The Bell Tower, Cooks Garden in Wanganui.

This is a wooden structure with an octagonal peaked iron roof and balcony is on the site of the old York Stockade, and houses the original 1874 Sheffield fire bell and four bells from the Post Office Clock tower. Each night the fire brigade watchmen climbed to the top, and when a fire was spotted rang the bell, the number of strokes indicating where the fire was burning. The 6m high tower contains a central staircase which give access to the bells.

The hill in Cooks Gardens was the site of the fighting Pa, Patupohau. Taranaki people occupied this pa while Whanganui and Taupo tribes were visiting Kapiti Island in 1839. The Reserve was set aside in the original purchase plan of Wanganui and later the York Stockade was built on the hill in the reserve. This was occupied by officers and men of the 65th (Yorkshire) Regiment from July 1847. On the base at the foot of the hill the Commissariat grew vegetables which the cooks would harvest each day to meet their requirements, hence the name Cooks Gardens. On the hill was built the Bell tower.
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