A group of men on horses. Original of this image not held so no details are known of its origin.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          194X

Johan Kristian Richter was born in Norway. He anglicised his name to John Christian Richter after migrating to New Zealand.

Creator:      Billens and Bunting, attributed
Date:          1996

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 26th May 2020. John Ward, Alison Mildon, Don Esslemont and Stuart Birks in the 6th week of Covid-19 lockdown, describing the experience. Don had falls and was taken by ambulance for treatment twice. Distancing...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 26, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic people across the country placed teddy bears in their street-facing windows and gardens, allowing local children to “hunt” for bears in their neighbourhoods.

Creator:      N Kilpin
Place:          Kelvin Grove
Date:          April 4, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic people across the country placed teddy bears in their street-facing windows and gardens, allowing local children to “hunt” for bears in their neighbourhoods.

Creator:      N Kilpin
Place:          Kelvin Grove
Date:          April 4, 2020

Papaioea Park closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo taken on an Huawei GR5 mobile device.

Creator:      Daniel Straman
Place:          Papaioea Park, Palmerston North
Date:          March 29, 2020

Prepared for lockdown.  Stockpiling library books 

Creator:      N E E Kilpin
Place:          Kelvin Grove
Date:          April 4, 2020

 Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 2nd June 2020. Tom Romley, Part 1 of 5.  Born 1934. Only child. 1938 moved to Ashhurst. Other family in the area. Wood range in the kitchen, open fire in the lounge. Outdoor toilets. Started scho...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 2, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 16th June 2020. Tom and Colleen Romley, Part 3 of 5.  Apprenticeship as a fitter-welder in early 1950s. Making horse shoes. Wagon wheels, forge welding. Training at PN Tech. Driving test. 5 year apprent...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 16, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th June 2020. Tom Romley Part 5 of 5.  Buying Ashhurst Engineering. Colleen in the office, children in a caravan. Running the business. Early issues. Hardware shop also. Switch to metric measures fro...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 30, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 9th June 2020. Tom and Colleen Romley, Part 2 of 5.  Leisure activities. Soccer. Learning to swim in the river. Diving off the bridge. Dentists. Sunday School. Pocket money as a boarder. Cinema. Scouts...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 9, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 23rd June 2020. Tom Romley, Part 4 of 5.  Working on the Upper Yarra Dam, living in a camp. Sleeping bags, dead snake inside. Shift work. 2 “lives” and you were out. How got to Australia. Workers from ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 23, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 5th May 2020.  Workers Education Association in NZ from 1915, but died away. UK origins. Revived in Palmerston North by Merv Hancock. John active mid-1980s to mid-1990s. Funding. Objectives, topics and...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 5, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 25th February 2020.  John Ward and others discuss the 1941 and 1953 Palmerston North floods. Hokowhitu School largely submerged. Guy Avenue flooding. WWII bomb shelter in the garden full of water. Blac...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 25, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th April 2020. Part 1 of 6.  Student at Massey Agricultural College in 1949. Milk testing. Student life, hostels, returned servicemen. Female students, C J Monro’s house. Hostel raids. Capping week. A...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 7, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 18th February 2020. Part 2 of 2.  Don’s early childhood, lost 2 mothers in childbirth, then father died, raised by step-mother. Siblings, family relationships. Moved from Ashburton to a farm in the far ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 18, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 11th February 2020.   Part 1 of 2. Insurance loss adjuster, developed own business in the South Island. Handled major insurance events. After retired 10 years, moved to Palmerston North 10-12 year...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 11, 2020

Roller figure skating team after competing at the National Championships in Hastings January 1959.

Back row left to right: Ingrid Rumsey, Jennifer Coss, Raymond Burgess, Mr Hale (Manager), Brian Eckersley, Fay Wallis, Marilyn Burgess.

Front row ...

Creator:      Ingrid Dunckley
Place:          Memorial Park, Palmerston North
Date:          February 15, 1959

Back Row: Colin Hart, Michael Young, Douglas Bruhn, Lawrence McCallum, Michael Connell, Gary Thomas, Bernard Montgomery, John Whitehead, Kenneth McKenzie, Roger Dalton, ??. Miss Zinsley (became Mrs Rene Gordon). Third Row: Raewyn Pike, Don...

Creator:      Laurie McCallum
Place:          Russell Street Primary School by the old ngaio tree
Date:          1956

 Nuwyne Te Awe Awe Mohi, the kaikaranga stands next to Warren Warbrick (Te Awe Awe) who is playing a pūtatara - a traditional trumpet at the start of a ceremony to raise flags on Waitangi Day in Te Marae o Hine (The Square), Palmerston Nor...

Creator:      Virginia Warbrick
Place:          Te Marae o Hine
Date:          February 6, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 19th May 2020.  Part 2 of 2. Palmerston North Defence Heritage Advisory Group activities. Anniversaries and commemorations. Military history presentations. Recordings of talks at <a href="https://www.n...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 19, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 12th May 2020.  Part 1 of 2. Defence Heritage work since 2015. Coordinating defence heritage activities, ANZAC Day, Military Tattoo, etc.. Participants in the Heritage group. Attendance on ANZAC Day. B...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 12, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 31st March 2020.   Friends of the Regent set up in 1995, volunteers to support the renovation and running of the Regent Theatre. Raised $1.7m in just over a year. Earlier use of the theatre. Authe...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          March 31, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28th April 2020.  Part 2 of 2. Teacher training in Christchurch from 1951. Catholic Youth Movement. Teaching at Hokowhitu, then Marton Junction (51 children in the class). Then to Terrace End. Other ac...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Date:          April 28, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st April 2020. Part 1 of 2. Why writing local history? Gestetners. Palmerston North Historical Society booklets. Early research on NZ tour of Gemini space capsule. School histories. Parish history. Brian ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 21, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th March 2020. Arnie Evans, life as a regional radio and TV reporter, part 2 of 3. Broadcasting facilities, 1970s and 1980s. Use of phones. Comparison with TV. TV more costly and more prescribed. Mistake ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 17, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th March 2020. Arnie Evans, life as a regional radio and TV reporter part 3 of 3. Broadcasting in the 80s. Freezing works and other closures, maternity hospitals, factories (caravans). Other stories, jetb...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 24, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 3rd March 2020.   Part 1 of 3. 1969-1990 work at NZBC. To Manawatu in 1977, radio station 2ZA. Changes to local broadcasting. Getting news stories. Comparison with TV. Journalism training in 1970s...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 3, 2020

A house on Boundary Road (now Tremaine Avenue) rented by Leslie and Clarice Weston-Webb prior to moving to Bunnythorpe.

Place:          Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1929

A flower garden in The Square planted to celebrate the Women’s Suffrage centennial.

Creator:      Patricia Keiller
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1993