The float, created by the Palmerston North City Council, is pictured in Cuba Street. A procession of nearly 100 floats took place as one of the highlights of the celebrations of 75 years since the establishment of the Borough of Palmerton North.
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 15, 1952
The original Terrace End School was situated in Main Street but its exact locality and original use are not known. Mrs Harvey was the first teacher. In June 1884, the School was moved to Deard's Hall in Main Street and Mr A Matheson was headmaster...
Creator: Ernest R Whalley
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
Stained glass windows as photographed from the inside of the Wesley Methodist Church. The two-piece stained glass memorial window is in honour of John Cunninghame, of Palmerston North department store Collinson and Cunninghame fame.
This church...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 264 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1970
Stained glass windows as photographed from the inside of the Wesley Methodist Church. The two-piece stained glass memorial window is in honour of John Cunninghame, of Palmerston North department store Collinson and Cunninghame fame.
This church, ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 264 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1970
Flooding in the Turitea Valley as seen from the top of Harts Road looking across Turitea Road.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Harts Road, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1965
This building was one of the first European houses in inland Manawatu, erected 1867 by European carpenters employed by Ditlev Gothard Monrad, the Lutheran Bishop and ex-Premier of Denmark who settled at Karere in 1866. To the right of the house c...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Karere, near Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1867
Senior non-commissioned officers of the 6th Manawatu Mounted Rifles at Foxton Camp. The 6th Mounted Rifles was formed on 17 March 1911. They were mobilised during the Great War as a squadron of the Wellington Mounted Rifle Regiment.
Creator: S C Smith, Wellington
Place: Foxton
Date: 1928
This photograph was taken on the corner of Cook Street and Main Street West. On the corner is a BP petrol station and Clausen's Plating Works. The intersection of Cook Street and Cuba Street can be seen in the distance, beyond the trees.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Cook Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1968
The Palmerston North City Council administration building was designed by Reginald Thorrold Jaggard and built in 1944-1945. The Council had occupied the same site in the former Colonial Bank of New Zealand building until it was demolished to make ...
Creator: F A Tier
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
This brick Adminstration Building of the Palmerston North Hospital was erected in 1936. It was the main entrance to the hospital off Hertaunga Street. The building remains within the hopital complex but is no longer the main entrance, which is off...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Heretaunga Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1936
Interior of the Wesley Methodist Church. This church, originally called St Paul's, was designed by James Bennie in 1911 and was the third Methodist church on the Broadway site. It closed in February 2011 after the Christchurch earthquake and was d...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1970
This church, originally called St Paul's, was designed by James Bennie in 1911 and was the third Methodist church on the Broadway site. It closed in February 2011 after the Christchurch earthquake and was demolished in 2020.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1970
The old flag was found in the records room by the School's Executive Officer, Mr John Cairns. A label indicates it was made in Konigsberg, now part of Poland. German teachers at the school feel it is an imperial flag of the second Reich era (aroun...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1980
This building stood on the corner of Cuba and Rangitikei Streets and was destroyed by fire in 1895. This photograph shows the Cuba Street frontage of the building, with workers, some children and dogs outside. William Arthur Browning and Thomas To...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1891
A group of men scything wheat by hand in a paddock said to be in the Foxton area. George W Hughes is second from the right.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1900
This photograph shows the retrieval of the derailed freight engine KA 951, derailed into the Manawatu Gorge. The accident happened 20 August 1946. Two of the three crewmen were killed - B. Craighead and the fireman, R. Hoskins, while the guard, R ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: August 1946
Samuel Jickell was Palmerston North Borough Engineer from 1904-1919. This reservoir was formed when the height of the second dam on the Turitea Stream was raised to 50 feet in 1912.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1913
Mrs Clarke's Transport Depot was located in Douglas Square, Rongotea. This business was later sold to N.I.W. Brown and Company Ltd.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: 1920s
This photograph shows a view of Church Street East and The Square. Tuckers sample room is on the far right, on the left side of Church Street East. The photograph must have been taken before 1902 as Millar and Giorgi was built in that year, but it...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1901
The view is taken from the top of the Band Rotunda in the Esplanade. This sportsground was first owned by the Manawatu Sporting Association. It was later bought by the Borough Council.
Creator: Ernest Denton
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1909
W.W. Corpe (1836 - 1923) was one of the pioneers of the dairy industry in the Manawatu. He arrived in the Feilding district about 1881 and was a sawmiller for some years before constructing a butter and cheese factory at Makino, near Feilding. M...
Creator: Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1880 to circa 1885