Family photograph album, including images of family members, scenes around Palmerston North, animals, music, sport, soldiers, "Huanui" (boat at Foxton), Foxton, Maori Battalion (1940) and farm scenes.
Creator: Newth family
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1950
Philip Fowler travelled to England to serve as a pilot with the Royal Naval Air Service, during World War One.
This photograph album appears to hold images from his life not long after his return to New Zealand, when he went on to fly passengers...
Creator: Philip Fowler
Place: New Zealand
Date: 192X
Photograph album containing images of the activities of the Ashhurst Arts Centre. Includes: - Arts and Crafts Exhibitions 1971 - 1975 - Centennial Exhibition (Palmerston North) 1971 - Drama Group and other productions 1971 - 1975 - Mrs Ashhurst co...
Creator: Ashhurst Arts Centre
Place: Ashhurst
Date: 1971 to 1975
Photograph album containing photographs of Samuel and Margaretta Macaulay and their family, including Nita, Lena, Elizabeth, Sarah, Joe and Emilie Macauley, and family friends. Also Campbell Aitchison, Thompson home on Milson Line, Aitchison home ...
Creator: Various
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1930
Album of the Linton Branch of the Country Women's Institute (CWI), containing a photograph and report from each President of the Branch during their term in office. Also includes newspaper cuttings, show certificates and photographs of Branch birt...
Creator: Linton CWI
Place: Linton, Manawatū
Date: 1931 to 1993
An autograph book used as a photograph album. Photographs document Huia Mackrell's service overseas during World War One, including shipboard life, Egypt and Gallipoli. Signed, inside front cover; "Some snaps during my travels, H H Mackrell".
Creator: H H Mackrell
Date: circa 1914 to circa 1918
The first meeting of the Kairanga Girl Guide Company was on 3 April 1954. Kairanga is a farming district on the outskirts of Palmerston North.
The album, entitled 'Camping Days' contains photographs of camps at Himatangi Beach and Kowhai Hut and ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: 1964 to 1966
This photograph is from the Manawatū District Aero Club archives. The Manawatū Aero Club was established following a public meeting in November 1928, with the objective of promoting aviation in the district. In September 1937, they became the Midd...
Creator: Royal New Zealand Air Force
The Overseas Ladies' Club was formed in Palmerston North in 1947 as a support group for the wives of New Zealand servicemen who migrated to Palmerston North after the Second World War. The group continued to meet regularly until 1982.
This scrapb...
Date: 1947 to 1960
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened on 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned as unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened...
Creator: Ray Carter
Place: 380 Church Street
Date: October 1996
A walking trail that celebrates the vital role women have played in the development of Palmerston North, through sites particularly associated with women. This brochure was prepared by Gaynor White to mark New Zealand's Women's Suffrage Centennial...
Date: 1993
Ernest (Ernie) Vilhelm West (1885-1961) was a Palmerston North architect and member of the Middle Districts Aero Club. His first flight was in 1909, when visiting the Crystal Palace, London, he flew in a Farman box kite. However, West did not lear...
Date: February 1938
This photograph is from the Manawatū District Aero Club archives. The Manawatū Aero Club was established following a public meeting in November 1928, with the objective of promoting aviation in the district. In September 1937, they became the Midd...
Date: circa 1936
The figure on the left is Ernest (Ernie) Vilhelm West (1885-1961), a Palmerston North architect and member of the Middle Districts Aero Club. His first flight was in 1909, when visiting the Crystal Palace, London, he flew in a Farman box kite. How...
Date: 1938
This photograph is thought to show an event at the Milson Aerodrome.
This photograph is from the Manawatū District Aero Club archives. The Manawatū Aero Club was established following a public meeting in November 1928, with the objective of promoting aviation in the district. In September 1937, they became the Midd...
Date: 1938 to 1939
This photograph is from the Manawatū District Aero Club archives. The Manawatū Aero Club was established following a public meeting in November 1928, with the objective of promoting aviation in the district. In September 1937, they became the Midd...
Date: circa 1938
J. Linklater (M.P. for Manawatū and the aero club's president), J. G. Coobe (Minister of Defence) and club member D. F. Smillie pose in front of a World War I Bristol Fighter. The Bristol, a R.N.Z.A.F. Machine, had been flown up from Wigram Air F...
Date: December 1931
This photograph is thought to show an event at the Milson Aerodrome.
Date: 193X
This photograph is from the Manawatū District Aero Club archives. The Manawatū Aero Club was established following a public meeting in November 1928, with the objective of promoting aviation in the district. In September 1937, they became the Midd...
Date: circa 1955
The Palmerston North Flying School was formed in 1966 by Alexander Brian Milne (a former RNZAF Pilot Officer in WWII and 'A'Cat pilot) and Syd Jensen.
Date: circa 1970
This photograph is from the Manawatū District Aero Club archives. The Manawatū Aero Club was established following a public meeting in November 1928, with the objective of promoting aviation in the district. In September 1937, they became the Midd...
Date: 199X
This photograph is thought to show an event at the Milson Aerodrome. It may show the opening of the Middle Districts Aero Club's new twin hanger and clubhouse in December 1938. Unfortuantely, on 17 February 1939 in a large fire which destroyed th...
Date: circa 1938
The Middle Districts Aero Club acquired its first Tiger Moth in 1938 and by the end of 1949, had a fleet of six Tigers. These were considered the most practical aircraft for training new pilots. In 1958, Champions began replacing Tigers as the pre...
Date: 1965
Members of the aero club and a large group of boys stand around a landed aircraft.
Date: circa 1940
This photograph shows members who were prominent in club affairs at the time standing in front of a hanger and three aircrafts at Milson Aerodrome. From the left: A. Chandler, J. Penny, R. McDonald, G. W. Dixon, H. E. Edmunds (president), R. L. Mc...
Date: 1935
From left (seated) are: M. Nathan, L. Stannard, H. E. Edmunds and Miss Shannon. Standing are: K. G. Chamberlain, J. B. Smillie, N. R. Lecher, R. L. Forrest, A. Radford, R. Linklater, A. H. Honeyfield, E. W. Pearse, R. L. McGaffin, J. Penny, G. W. ...
Date: 193X
The street in the centre of the photograph, running towards the Manawatū River, is Victoria Avenue. Broadway Avenue runs parallel to the lower edge of the photo, with the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit visible in the lower righthand corner.
Date: 1976 to 1977
This photograph is from the Manawatū District Aero Club archives. The Manawatū Aero Club was established following a public meeting in November 1928, with the objective of promoting aviation in the district. In September 1937, they became the Midd...
Date: 1976 to 1977
Work on the foundations for the Civic Administration Building is visible in the upper right of this photograph, suggesting a date of about 1976 or 1977.
Date: 1976 to 1977