This video shows local events that took place in Palmerston North in the mid 1930s. Subjects include chariot racing, fun in the Esplanade, 50th jubilee of Palmerston North parade in 1937 and footage of a Springbok vs Manawatu match. NOTE: There is...
Creator:
Date: 1935 to 1937
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
The former C M Ross Company Ltd building, built in 1927 - 1928, was bought by the Palmerston North City Council in 1993, to become the new Central Library. It was opened in 1996. The former public library on the opposite side of The Square was on ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square
Date: 1993 to 1996
The former C M Ross Company Ltd building, built in 1927 - 1928, was bought by the Palmerston North City Council in 1993, to become the new Central Library. It was opened in 1996. The former public library on the opposite side of The Square was on ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square
Date: 1993 to 1996
The former C M Ross Company Ltd building, built in 1927 - 1928, was bought by the Palmerston North City Council in 1993, to become the new Central Library. It was opened in 1996. The former public library on the opposite side of The Square was on ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square
Date: 1993 to 1996
A movie about the 2nd Palmerston North Industries Fair, held at the Showgrounds. The fair was organised by the Public Relations Association, with commercial displays, demonstrations and activities for the family. Produced by Guy Burgess for the NZ...
Creator: Guy Burgess Production
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1961
Image of one of the bridges on the 7.6km He Ara Kotahi pathway which connects cyclists and pedestrians between Palmerston North and Linton Military Camp, Massey University and Food HQ. The name means a pathway that brings people together.
There ...
Creator: Drone image - Alexander Robertson, for PNCC
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2019
Filmed by Robert (Bob) Nicholson, a dairy farmer from Awahuri.
Includes footage of: Cherry Blossom time in the Esplanade; Nicholson brothers at play at home in Awahuri; Andrew, Jeffrey, John Nicholson and mother Margery Nicholson (Andrew Nicholso...
Creator: Bob Nicholson
Place: Awahuri and Oroua Downs
Date: 1952 to 1953
The inaugural meeting of the Palmerston North City Council in 2013.
Includes the Chief Executive, Paddy Clifford, Mayor, Jono Naylor and Councillors, Lew Findley, Adrian Broad, Duncan McCann, Leoni Hapeta, Jim Jeffries, Tangi Utikere, Susan Baty,...
Creator: PNCC
Place: Palmerston North City Council Chambers
Date: October 30, 2013
Home video made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Ashhurst Post Office, now the Ashhurst Community Library, and the opening of the Historic Photograph Gallery by Mayor, Paul Rieger.
Includes: interview with Jim Curry, former postman; ma...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst
Image of the 190m long He Ara Kotahi bridge with viewing platform in the centre, that connects the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, to the other side of the Manawatū River.
The design inspiration for the bridge is a karaka tree, with its '...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: He Ara Kotahi Bridge, Palmerston North
Date: 2019
Wallace (Wally) Smith of Palmerston North was a keen home movie maker.
Movie footage includes: New Zealand Centennial pavillion in Wellington 1940; Otago Centennial in Dunedin 1948; Palmerston North 75th jubilee 1952 - includes centennial train, ...
Creator: Wallace Smith
Place: New Zealand
Date: 1940 to 1960
Wallace (Wally) Smith of Palmerston North was a keen home movie maker.
Movie footage includes: The Square; neon lights; Memorial Park skating; steam train through The Square; horse racing at Awapuni Showgrounds; net fishing; car racing; Changing...
Creator: Wallace Smith
Place: Manawatū
Date: 1940 to 1970
Home movie including: climbing radio masts; flooding; opening of Awapuni Sewerage Treatment Plant; Massey University open day; aeroplane (NAC) at Milson Airport; beach activities; ballooning; family and home activities.
Filmed by Wallace Smith.
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Creator: Wallace Smith
Place: Manawatū
Date: 1960 to 1975
A New Zealand Newsreel, entitled "Through the Years".
Includes segments on: Roxborough Childrens' Health Camp; Feilding Polo Championship; Rakaia River in flood; Temuka - Memorial Pa to Ratana; Dunedin cable car loses trailer; Franz Joseph Glacie...
Creator: New Zealand Newsreel
Place: New Zealand
Date: 1920 to 1949
Centennial activities including the skyhawk display, Regent Street lights, Tokomaru Museum, fireworks display, activities in The Square, re-enactment of the arrival of Louisa Snelson at the Manawatū River, fly past, parade of floats, marching girl...
Creator: Wallace Smith
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1971
Home movie compiled and believed to be all filmed by Wallace Smith.
Colour movie around The Square, including showing stages of the construction of the new Civic Administration building on the corner of Main Street and The Square, late 1970s.
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Creator: Wallace Smith and others
Date: 1940 to 1980
Home movie of the Smith family during summer.
Includes footage of working around home - making a trailer, concreting, dismantling a car; weddings; a 'pop group' in a studio and playing in the The Square; Victoria Esplanade Gardens; city lights at...
Creator: Wallace Smith
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
Footage of New Zealand army, navy and air force personal during WWII, in New Zealand, Egypt and the Pacific.
16mm film. Length: 4 minutes, 35 seconds. Sepia. Sound of movie projector running.
Creator: NZ National Film Unit
Date: 1940 to 1945
Filmed by Mr S. A Free who was a daffodil breeder.
Movie includes: picking daffodils; sheep in paddock; Lamb and Calf Day at school; Napier beach front scenes, fish.
Length: 4 minutes, 21 seconds. Colour. Silent. Poor quality.
Creator: S. A. Free
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1963
Compilation of movie footage and still photographs of the construction and opening of the Miniature Railway in the Esplanade Gardens, put together by Vernon Smith. Movies were taken by Vernon Smith's father, Wallace Smith. Notable people who atte...
Creator: Wallace Smith and Vernon Smith
Place: Victoria Esplanade Gardens
Date: 1960s
Leslie and Clarice Weston-Webb lived in Bunnythorpe with their three children, Roland (b.1932), Barbara (b. 1935) and Audrey (b.1937). Leslie Weston -Webb ran the Bunnythorpe Garage. After he died in 1942 the family moved to Palmerston North. Lesl...
Creator: Leslie Weston-Webb
Place: Manawatū
Date: 1930 to 1945
Leslie and Clarice Weston-Webb lived in Bunnythorpe with their three children, Roland (b.1932), Barbara (b. 1935) and Audrey (b.1937). Leslie Weston -Webb ran the Bunnythorpe Garage. After he died in 1942 the family moved to Palmerston North. Lesl...
Creator: Leslie Weston-Webb
Place: Palmerston North, Feilding and Bunnythorpe
Date: 1930 to 1945
Leslie and Clarice Weston-Webb lived in Bunnythorpe with their three children, Roland (b.1932), Barbara (b. 1935) and Audrey (b.1937). Leslie Weston -Webb ran the Bunnythorpe Garage. After he died in 1942 the family moved to Palmerston North. Lesl...
Creator: Leslie Weston-Webb
Place: Foxton and Palmerston North
Date: 1930 to 1945
Wallace Smith of Palmerston North was a keen home movie maker.
Movie footage includes: central Palmerston North; neon lights; Terrace End skating rink; railway line through The Square; Awapuni races; wreath laying and PNBHS Guard of Honour; Grand...
Creator: Wallace Smith
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1979
Image of one of the bridges on the 7.6km He Ara Kotahi pathway which connects cyclists and pedestrians between Palmerston North and Linton Military Camp, Massey University and Food HQ. The name means a pathway that brings people together.
There ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2019
Image of one of the bridges on the 7.6km He Ara Kotahi pathway which connects cyclists and pedestrians between Palmerston North and Linton Military Camp, Massey University and Food HQ. The name means a pathway that brings people together.
There ...
Creator: Drone image - Alexander Robertson, for PNCC
Place: Arapuke Forest Park
Date: 2019
Image of one of the bridges on the 7.6km He Ara Kotahi pathway which connects cyclists and pedestrians between Palmerston North and Linton Military Camp, Massey University and Food HQ. The name means a pathway that brings people together.
There ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2019
The Wesley Broadway Church was originally called St Paul's. It was designed by James Bennie in 1911 and was the third Methodist church on this site. In 1989 the two Methodist churches in Palmeston North (the other in Cuba Street) combined to becom...
Creator: Daniel Straman
Place: 264 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: March 23, 2020
An interview with author, Garry O'Neill, about his book 'Hokowhitu". The book explores the history of the suburb of Hokowhitu in Palmerston North (search 2015Pa_IMCA-DigitalMaster_011129 on Manawatu Heritage for e-copy).
Interviewer: Richard Ma...
Creator: Richard Mays
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: June 2015