Explore - Manawatū Heritage

Argosy Aerial - Hokowhitu, looking across Manawatū River towards Aokautere Drive and the Pahiatua Track

Manawatu Street runs from left to right across the foreground of this aerial photograph. Crewe Crescent forms a T intersection with Manawatu St in the lower left of this image. Buxton Place is the cul-de-sac that branches off Crewe Cres in the cen...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1974

Argosy Aerial - Hokowhitu

Manawatu Street runs on a diagonal from the centre lefthand side towards the middle of this photograph, where it turns into Ruahine Street. Erin Street is the street with grass berms toward the lower left of the image.

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Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1974

Argosy Aerial - Hokowhitu

Waterloo Crescent is the cul-de-sac in the lower righthand corner of this photograph, with Dorset Crescent next to it slightly further up. Manawatu Street is the longer street that runs parallel to Dorset Crescent on a diagonal, through the centre...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1974

Argosy Aerial - looking towards Hokowhitu

This aerial photograph shows Manawatu Street running horizontally from the centre to the righthand side of the image. Waterloo Crescent is the cul-de-sac that branches off the Manawatu St towards the river bank.

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Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1974

Argosy Aerial - Hokowhitu

This aerial view of Hokowhitu shows Tilsbury Avenue in the lower right corner of the image. Ayr Place in the cul-de-sac that branches off Tilbury Ave to the left. Manawatu Street runs on a diagonal from the lower right towards the centre of the im...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1974

Argosy Aerial - Hokowhitu

This aerial photograph shows Waterloo Crescent near the lower left corner and Dorset Crescent in the lower centre. Manawatu Street appears on the righthand side of the image. Albert Street connects to Manawatu Street with a T intersection, then ru...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1974

Argosy Aerial - Hokowhitu

In this aerial photograph, the street running from the lower centre left of the photograph into the distance is Manawatu Street. Part of Albert Street is visible in the lower left hand corner of the image. Erin Street is visible in the lower centr...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1974

Carondale Flats, 262 Rangitikei Street

These flats were designed by Reginald Thorrold Jaggard, a local architect, for Mrs M S Curle in 1938. The flats, on the corner of Rangitikei Street and Wellesbourne Street, stand beside Palmerston North Boys' High School. Plans are held in Ian Mat...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939

Pipe Band and Marching Girls, Palmerston North 75th jubilee

In 1952 Palmerston North celebrated 75 years since being proclaimed a Borough. Heading the procession down Cuba Street are four marching drum “Majorettes”. Directly behind them is the Scottish Society Pipe Band, followed in turn by a group of marc...

Creator:      Bruce Watt
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1952

Palmerston North War Memorial, The Square

The cenotaph, constructed 1926, was unveiled by the Prime Minister of the day Mr J F Coates. The memorial, a copy of one found in Folkstone, England, was for the men who died in the First World War, (WWI) and as such faced north-west towards the b...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 7, 1926

Palmerston North War Memorial, The Square

A war memorial to commemorate local soldiers who died in World War One was erected in the centre of The Square, Palmerston North, in 1926. The figure that sits atop the memorial was based on a similar one in Folkstone, England. Today it also comme...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 7, 1926

Palmerston North War Memorial, the Square

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 7, 1926

Palmerston North War Memorial, The Square

Creator:      Crown Studios
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 7, 1926

Jubilee float for Palmerston North's 75th celebrations

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

Float, as part of Palmerston North 75th Jubilee celebrations

There was a week of events to celebrate Palmerston North being granted Borough status in 1877. Celebrations began on Saturday and included a display of floats. Shown here is Garners department store float in Cuba Street.

Creator:      Bruce Watt
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 15, 1952

“Kiwi women coast to easy victory”

This image was taken (but not used) by the Evening Standard on 21st of January 1982. It depicts the New Zealand women’s cricket team taking on the International XI women’s team in a limited over match for the Hansell's Vita Fresh Women's World Cu...