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Back Row: P. Perry, E. Cowley, L. Mummery, D. McLeod
Middle Row: D. Gray, M. Dick, S. Bartlett, D. McDowell, F. Bailey, G, Page, B. Plimm...
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1952
Marx Voss (c.1850-1923) and Maren Voss (c.1854-1934) emigrated from Denmark with Bishop Monrad's scheme in 1874. They settled and farmed in Karere, where they raised their nine children.
This image is derived from a copy negative, made from a phot...
Date: circa 1910
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 February 1961: "Winner of the open diving event, W. Pratt seen competing during the Queen Elizabeth Technical School swimming sports yesterday."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1961-02-17T00:00:00+00:00
The camping ground was established in 1925, adjacent to the Victoria Esplanade. It is now called the Palmerston North Holiday Park.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planni...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Dittmer Drive, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960 to circa 1979
Creator: Ralph Body
Date: February 24, 2024
Creator: Ralph Body
Date: February 24, 2024
Finale event in the Victoria Esplanade for children who had completed the programme. The Summer Reading programme gets kids to come in to the one of the Palmerston North libraries to report about books they had read.
Creator:
Date: January 21, 2016
Cars are parked by flower beds in bloom at the Victoria Esplanade.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
Pat and Jan playing in the garden of the Hayes family home at 11 Anderson Street, Palmerston North.
Creator: Thomas Hayes [?]
Place: 11 Anderson Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
Photo taken over summer at Foxton Beach, Manawatu
Creator: Anna York
Place: Foxton Beach
Date: December 27, 2017
The display window features summer fashions in a beach setting, entitled 'Season in the Sun'. An existng business was reorganised into the PDC in 1915 when bought by James Wallace, and a new 3 storey building was constructed in 1929. The business ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: December 1959
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 December 1955. The pupil chosen as Dux was Dianne Law, sister of Jeff and Ronald Law.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 15, 1955
The craft group "Wooly Riot" claimed responsibility of the yarn bombing of Charles Monroe statue. The group also yarn bombed the "Who's Afraid" sculpture in front of The Regent Theatre, the entrance to The Esplanade, and the concrete boulders at t...
Creator: Robyn Wilson
Place: 326 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 24, 2012
An air-operated coal crane at the Palmerston North railway yards. On the foreground: railway worker Jim Daley.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 1964 to August 1964
Colour postcard showing buses travelling arund The Square.
Place: Palmerston North
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, is presumed t...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Gallipoli
Date: July 1, 1915
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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 January, 1959. "Im so frightened. I don't know how I am going to do the part," confides Niki in 17-month-old Lynette Owen-Taylor at the Opera House yesterday. Niki ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 28, 1959
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. In 2020, the prospect of large numbers of citizens catching Covid-19 and dying as a result drove the government to mandate a nationwide lockdown to halt the spreading of the v...
Creator: Karis Evans
Place: Manawatū
Date: May 31, 2025
The women in this photograph are Vera Cox (left), who married John Boman, and Vera Burr who married Courtney McLennan. After Vera Boman (née Cox) and Courtney McLennan had passed away, the two surviving partners - Vera McLennan (née Burr) and John...
Date: 1946 to 1954
The woman on the right is Vera Burr (1916-1999), who later married Courtney McLennan, and following his death married John Boman. She went on to author several local history publications under the name Vera McLennan-Boman. The woman on the left is...
Date: 1946 to 1954
The woman on the left is Vera Cox, who later married John Boman. The woman on the right is unidentified.
The residence is the home of Mr and Mrs A K Drew. Alfred Kingsley Drew (c.1882-1953) married Elsie Gordon Flyger in April 1908. He served as...
Creator: Vera L McLennan-Boman, attributed to
Date: 1946 to 1954
The women in this photograph are Vera Cox (left), who married John Boman, and Vera Burr who married Courtney McLennan. After Vera Boman (née Cox) and Courtney McLennan had passed away, the two surviving partners - Vera McLennan (née Burr) and John...
Date: 1946 to 1954
He hui mō te whakamaumaharatanga o te taenga mai o ngā tauiwi i te tau 1871. I tū te hui i muri i te whakaritenga karakia ki YMCA Stadium. Ko Meihana Durie ko te kaumātua o te iwi Rangitāne me Ngāti Kauwhata. Ko ia hoki e whaikōrero ana. I noh...
Creator: John Cleland Photo Studio Ltd
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1971
A photograph of an unidentified banquet from around the time of end of World War Two. The Chinese fought alongside the Allied Forces. The patriotic posters display the likenesses of the leaders of the Allies and read, "Come then... Let us to the t...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Masterton
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
This postcard has an image of the middle of The Square surrounded by a calendar for the year 1911.
Creator: Aldersley Series
Date: 1910
This 19 minute video shows a variety of events that employees of the Palmerston North City Council took part in during the 1950s. The film was made by Mr Kenneth Wynks, who worked in the Municipal Electricity Department from 1947-1984.
It be...
Creator: PNCC
Date: 1950s
A school float leaving Railway Lands down Church Street towards The Square.
Creator:
Date: December 4, 2016
Creator: Ewan and Shirley Drake
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: December 25, 1971
Creator: Ewan and Shirley Drake
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: December 25, 1971
This postcard was send by someone named "Wessie". The back reads, "Wishing you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year." It is possible the man on the postcard is the sender. The photograph was taken by A Rickard, Palmerston North. Newspaper ads for a p...
Creator: A Rickard
Date: 1910 to 1915