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75th Anniversary 1987 - Basil Young cutting cake, staff in fancy dress, window displays and shop interior (during celebrations), Peter Jordan retirement (1985 (sales manager), Basil Young retirement from Board of Directors (1985) Ian Shearer retir...
Date: circa 1938 to 1987
This photograph Part A of three part panorama of the Square. the photograph looks across the Church Street side of The Square. In the centre back can be seen the former BNZ on the Corner of Fitzherbert Street, and on the left back can be seen the ...
Creator: F W Young
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1912
The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...
Creator: Ronald Grammer
Place: Bainesse
A panorama in three parts of the Manawatu A and P Show of 1915. The first Agricultural and Pastoral Show in Palmerston North was held in 1886, at the Showgrounds.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
These pages look like are originally from an album. The pages show: Broadway Avenue, Cherry Blossoms in the Esplanade, Grandstand in the Showgrounds after the 1936 gale, "Wrecked Motor Shed" after the 1936 gale, The Square and The Lakelet.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1936
These photographs were taken at the launch of the "Women's Place" pamphlet and exhibition in 1993. Photo 1: Group outside Square Edge. John Thornley (far left), Pamela Benson (12th from left, brown jacket/fair hair), Roni Fitzmaurice (15th from le...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1993
A panorama of The Square, 1937.
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1937
The Grammer family were early residents of Ashhurst. This album is one of several artefacts created during World War Two by Ron Grammer.
Creator: Ron Grammer
Date: 1939 to 1945
"A view of the south-western corner of The Square towards Coleman Place. Down the street, through the middle of The Square can be seen from left: Childs Hotel; Henderson’s Chemist; A de Luen and Co. Tailors; Hepworths; C M Ross Bon Marche store, B...
Creator: L Martin, Bookseller
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Mr Edwin Berry, in Main Street, as E. D. Berry General Engineer. As they grew, they moved to Ferguson Street, then to Ashley Street, and sons Frank, Zean and Edwin Jnr joined the business. They manufact...
Creator: Berry Engineering
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1970 to 1989
Unidentified people visit the "Hydrabad" wreck. The "Hydrabad" went ashore on Waiterere Beach on 25th June 1878 in gale force winds while on voyage from Lyttleton to Adelaide. It was a full-rigged iron ship of 1250 tons net register, built in Scot...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Waiterere Beach
Date: 1966
Photograph album mainly consisting of photographs of pupils and activities of Craven School, Palmerston North. The names written in ink were added by Lorna Playford, who donated the album to the Ian Matheson City Archives. Alongside views of life ...
Creator: Annie Dalrymple
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1903 to 1915
This photograph album depicts the Creighton Family of 5 Donnington Street, Palmerston North. It shows a range of different locations around Palmerston North and the surrounding area, ranging from 1940 to around 1943. The woman in most of the pictu...
Creator:
Date: 1940 to 1943
This album documents the Western Brewery Co. Ltd. premises in Bates Street, Whanganui. Photographs include: the despatch office; racking room; cask washing stage; racking machine; fermenting cellar; weiss cylinders; cask pitching room; gyle room; ...
Place: Whanganui
Date: circa 1946 to circa 1955
This album documents hotel buildings in the lower North Island (excluding the Wellington region), listing them alphabetically by the name of the business.
The hotels shown include the: Albion Hotel, Patea; Albion Hotel, Shannon; Albion Hotel, Wha...
Date: circa 1955 to circa 1960
This loose page from a photograph album contains 8 photographs of Craven pupils, one named '1911 Cricket Team' and another named 'Sports 1911'.
Creator: Annie Dalrymple [?]
Date: circa 1911
The Regent Theatre was built by the Australasian cinema and theatre chain J.C. Williamson Limited. Williamson's began its New Zealand operation in 1926. The theatre, one of several Regents built throughout New Zealand and Australia at this time, w...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: November 8, 1996 to June 5, 1997
A photograph and newspaper album compiled Richard Everitt (Dick) Moxon. Photographs include: family and friends, Palmerston North Rangers Association Football Club, Chatteris Engineers Reserves. Clippings pertain to sporting achievements, marriage...
Creator: R.E. (Dick) Moxon
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to 1911
This photograph album spans the years 1903-1911 and showcases the life of young women at boarding schools in the late 19th Century.
Creator: Annie Dalrymple
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1903 to 1911
This 1930s photograph album belongs to the Barrow Family, of Palmerston North. Subjects include family members, pets, airplanes, the 1935 flood, cars and car crashes, the Esplanade Gardens and other local landmarks.
Creator: Barrow Family
Date: 193X
Dated from the 1920s and 1930s, this photograph album depicts events on the Manawatū Gorge road including construction and repairs of the road, removing slips, car accidents etc. The album also contains images of Napier following the earthquake of...
Creator: William Brockie
Place: Manawatū Gorge
Date: 1925 to 1935
These photographs show the Scandinavian Club taking part in the opening of the Vasa Exhibition at the Manawatu Museum. The man in the centre of the second and fourth images is Professor Keith Thomson.
Creator: Reg Rushbridge
Date: 197X
Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Mr Edwin Berry, in Main Street, as E. D. Berry General Engineer. As they grew, they moved to Ferguson Street, then to Ashley Street, and sons Frank, Zean and Edwin Jnr joined the business. They manufact...
Creator: Berry Engineering
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1970 to 1989
These photographs depict a special celebration held around the Christmas / New Year period sometime during the 1980s. People came from all around the Central North Island to attend this celebration. The location is thought to be Waituna West, poss...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1980
A variety of activities are shown in the photograph album created by the Ashhurst Scout Group, including examples of bush craft, a handicraft expo, games and several Field and Cub Days. Group photographs are also included.
Creator: Ashhurst Scout Group
Date: 1967 to 1973
Section 1: The Crown Studios; Pegdens Furniture Warehouse; H.S. Porteous, grocer; DM George, draper and clothier; Wacker's Zealandia Shoe Repair Depot; B.H. Just, nurseryman; Bert Pratt, Hairdressers and Tobacconist; Occidental Hotel - built in th...
Creator: L Martin
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1915
This photograph album contains photographs of the Seifert flaxmills Weka and Miranui. Flax workers are pictured cultivating, gathering, drying and processing the fibres. Details of the transport operations undertaken by cart and barge are als...
Creator: Alfred Seifert
Date: August 1917 to October 1917
The "Hydrabad" went ashore on Waiterere Beach on 25th June 1878 in gale force winds while on voyage from Lyttleton to Adelaide. It was a full-rigged iron ship of 1250 tons net register, built in Scotland in 1865. Length 229.5 ft, beam 32.2 ft, dep...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1966
These photographs comprise a 7 part panorama taken from the top of what was the Public Library on the corner of Main Street East. It shows what The Square looked like at 9.30 am on a very clear, windy morning in the winter of 1983.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1983