Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 16th December 2025. Part 2 of 2. Mary describes British dogs as well-socialised and common in pubs.
 She found smoking in London widespread compared with New Zealand.
 Some travellers cros...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 16, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 9th December 2025. Part 1 of 2.
Mary Proctor describes her first trip to Britain at age 70.
 She felt an immediate sense of belonging in Scotland.
 Her ancestors left in the 1850s, and ...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 9, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 2nd December 2025. Dianne McConnell, Anne Weir, Mike Lawrence, Stuart Birks. Saturday shopping was banned in NZ from 1945 to give families weekends off.
 Friday night became the main shopping and ...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 2, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 25th November 2025. Part 2 of 2. Franco Vaccarino grew up in South Africa in an Italian family that spoke no English.
 He began working in a corporate bank where he set up literacy classes for sta...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 25, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 18th November 2025, Part 1 of 2. The City Mission began in the 1970s as the Anglican Social Work Trust in Palmerston North.
 It started a Friendship Centre for isolated seniors with transport and ...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 18, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 11th November 2025. Part 2 of 2. Jyoteeka began with strict meditation at 6 a.m., learning mindfulness in daily life.As a yoga teacher, she keeps a steady morning practice before class.<d...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 11, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 4th November 2025. Part 1 of 2. Jyoteeka Cummings shared her lifelong attraction to yoga, which resonated alongside her Catholic upbringing. She was drawn to Hindu ideas of reincarnation and divinity with...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 4, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28th October 2025. Part 2 of 2. Eric Bodell transferred from Wellington to Radio 2ZA in Palmerston North, working with 15 technicians on valve-based equipment.
 Technicians supported announcers un...

Place:          Feilding
Date:          October 28, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st October 2025. Part 1 of 2. Eric Bodell’s family migrated from Derbyshire to New Zealand after World War I.
 His grandfather and father were bricklayers, settling mainly in Wellington and Palm...

Place:          Feilding
Date:          October 21, 2025

Lions Club Souvenir ticket and certificate for the final excursion from the Main Street Station, Palmerston North, on the 1st of June, 1964. Griffiths collection.

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 1, 1964

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

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.

Argosy Studio (Argosy Indu...

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

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

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.

Argosy Studio (Argosy Industrial P...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North
Date:          January 21, 1982

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...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North
Date:          January 21, 1982

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...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North
Date:          January 21, 1982

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...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North
Date:          January 21, 1982

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...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North
Date:          January 21, 1982