Children stand on the railway sidings at Longburn. The sidings were a short distance north-west of the freezing works (visible in the background) and used for loading and unloading sheep and cattle.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
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
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
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 "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
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
A panorama of The Square, 1937.
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1937
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
A photograph of the late Sgt. P. Hill, who served in the Army and Air Force in the Second World War. He mounted a collection of 200 medals and service badges which was presented to the Palmerston North City Council at one of its meeting of the 28 ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1945
Mr Arthur Harding initially leased the property, then in 1906 his wife Isabella bought the land and together they build the 18 roomed 'Siberia' homestead. Also built on the property were stables, garages, sheds, stores for livestock and agricultur...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitzherbert East Road, Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: circa 1909 to circa 1915
This photograph shows the remains of a Royal Australian Air Force F-111 swing-wing aircraft after being taken to a hangar by truck. It crashed at the southern end of the runway. The plane was taking part in a Tasmanex exercise, the work crew membe...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ohakea, Rangitikei Region
Date: August 1979
Avon House was built for the Sisters of Mercy, and opened by Archbishop Redwood 8 December 1904. The architect was Frederick de Jersey Clere. It was used as a convent by the Catholic Church until 1925, when a new convent was built in Fitchett Str...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: September 17, 1979
These unidentified Australian airmen were entertained in Palmerston North by the Palmerston North City Council, when visiting Ohakea Air Force Base during the Second World War. The Mayor, A. E. Mansford is standing in the front row extreme left. ...
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1942
The Mayor of Palmerston North, A. E. Mansford, (fifth from left in the back row), Councillors, offical staff and visiting Australian Airmen at Ohakea during World War II.
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place: Rangitikei Region
Date: May 17, 1943
Flooding at Awapuni, at the end of the Palmerston North Racecourse. In the centre, the two storied gabled house is the Women’s Division of Federated Farmer’s Union rest home “Kaianga Moe’, which later burnt down in 1958. This house, formerly 'Shal...
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place: Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: January 1953
Image shows flooding at the Fitzherbert Bridge. The flood gauge read 19 feet 2 inches.
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place: Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date: May 4, 1941
Photograph shows flooding of the new housing are in Takaro, including Clausen Crescent and Featherston Street.
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
Photograph shows flooding of the new housing area in Takaro, including the flooded Mangaone Stream. Streets shown are Birmingham, Gloucester, Seddon and Botanical Roads.
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place: Takaro, Palmerston North
Date: January 1953
The photograph shows flooding at the edge of Hokowhitu. Streets shown are lower Ruahine, Windsor, Salisbury and Eton Place.
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 1953
Image showing flooding around Hokowhitu Lagoon looking out towards the Manawatū Gorge and Wharite Peak in the background.
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 4, 1941
This photograph shows a replica of the United States Apollo landing craft on display on the corner of Fitzherbert and Church Street near The Square.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1970
Commercially sponsored gondolas on Hokowhitu Lagoon during the “Carnival of the Lake’ festival. The Carnival of The Lake, centred around Hokowhitu Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years in the early 1...
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: January 1963
The caption on the original photograph reads, "New fountain, 2/1978".
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1961
The elephants, from Bullens Circus, carried 5 ‘leading personalities’, as they raced for the ‘Carnival Cup’ at Carnival Track (thought to be at the Esplanade). The Carnival of the Lake was centred around Centennial Lake, and was an annual event or...
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: The Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: January 18, 1963
The Main Street Railway Station was closed in 1963 and replaced by the Milson Railway Station in October of 1963. This shot gives a good view of the racks with Hopwood Tower in the distance.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960 to circa 1969
This colour image of The Square shows the quadrant nearest to the corner of Church Street West.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1977
A goods train with a full head of steam moves through the Square. The last train was in 1963, after the Milson Deviation was finished.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960
West End School, College Road, was opened on 1 July 1913 to cope with the burgeoning school age population of the town. Mr A O Buchler was appointed headmaster; Mr F C Campbell , first assistance; Miss H Park, Infant Teacher; Mrs Finlayson, Custod...
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Corner of Botanical and College Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 1973
The Coronation Memorial Fountain was built in 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII, and also commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Borough of Palmerston North, and the achievement of city status in 1930.
It was originally sited near the...
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 1978
Work men removing the railway tracks from the Square. The last train went through the Square in June of 1964 and later that month work men started to remove track joints and lines from the Square. Milson Railway Station opened on 21 October 1963. ...
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1964