Broadcast on Manawatu People’s Radio, 24th October 2023. Part 1 of 2. Career as a pharmacist. In Dagenham until 26 (1962). Young child in WWII. Memories of the blitz, DC3s towing gliders, Morrison shelter, Anderson shelter, V1s, V2s, rationing. Po...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Date: October 24, 2023
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
This register for the Palmerston North Municipal Opera House and Coronation Hall records bookings from 1940 until 1945, for performances, meetings and the activities of community groups. During the Second World War, these venues were also used to ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council, Treasurer's Department
Date: November 1940 to October 1945
This register for the Palmerston North Municipal Opera House and Coronation Hall records bookings from 1935 until 1940, for performances, meetings and the activities of community groups. The Municipal Opera House, designed by F J Wilson and built ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council, Treasurer's Department
Date: October 1935 to October 1940
Creator: Royal New Zealand Airforce
Date: 1944
Henry Jackson's survey plan of 1872 shows a large gravel pit occupying the future ...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2024
Japan surrendered to the allies of World War II on 15 August 1945. Immediately schools and businesses in Palmerston North were closed and celebrations, many informal, began. A thanksgiving service was held that afternoon, followed by a victory par...
Creator: Unknown
Date: August 16, 1945
The image is a derivative of this City of Palmerston North District Planning Map from 19...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2025
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Māori Battalion trains at the Palmerston North showgrounds in 1940.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 22, 2006
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. When local author Private Jack Gallichan (1908-1984) was imprisoned in a German prisoner-of-war coal mining labour camp in Poland during World War II, he started a weekly news...
Creator: Murray Brown
Date: August 31, 2024
Bruce McKenzie has been a local identity in book selling for many years. He spent 26 years with G H Bennett & Co Ltd on Broadway, Palmerston North, 12 years in publishing sales in Wellington, and in 1996 opened Bruce McKenzie Booksellers, in Georg...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 24, 2021
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. From 1941, lighting restrictions were put in place in Palmerston North and elsewhere. Under the Emergency Precautions Scheme, street lights, shops, factories, offices, vehicle...
Creator: Margaret Tennant
Place: New Zealand
Date: April 20, 2024
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
Military camp at Waiouru preparing soldiers for WW2
Creator: Denise Gunn
Place: Waiouru
Date: 1939
This photograph shows Bernard Cox in uniform, taken while he was stationed in Rome during WWII.He (1905-1970) was a well known Palmerston North architect. He was born in Dunedin where he studied architecture, before leaving to study and work in th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rome
Date: November 20, 1944
Bernard Cox (1905-1970) a well known Palmerston North architect. He was born in Dunedin where he studied architecture, before leaving to study and work in the USA and Canada in 1928. Bernard returned to New Zealand, settling in Palmerston North in...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 1946
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Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Māori Battalion trains at the Palmerston North showgrounds in 1940. Abridged from original article, 22 April 2006.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 21, 2006
Tiger was a Great Dane belonging to Captain Harding Waipuke Leaf (Ngā Puhi), of the Māori Battalion. Harding and Tiger trained at the Palmerston North Showgrounds between January and May of 1940. The images were taken by Keith Collinson, of the fa...
Creator: Keith Collinson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The story of the dog Tiger, a great dane, mascot of the Māori Battalion during World War 2. Tiger was the companion dog of Captain Harding Waipuke Leaf (Ngā Puhi). Tiger staye...
Creator: Tracey Armstrong
Place:
Date: September 16, 2023
This image was taken by Keith Collinson, of the family who owned the Collinson & Cunninghame's department store. He was a Sergeant based in the Records Department at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. The Māori Battalion trained at the Showgrounds ...
Creator: Keith Collinson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940
This image was taken by Keith Collinson, of the family who owned the Collinson & Cunninghame's department store. He was a Sergeant based in the Records Department at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. The Māori Battalion trained at the Showgrounds ...
Creator: Keith Collinson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940
This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 2, April 1988 with the caption, "Two-year-old Christina Koot has a final cuddle with adoptive mother Bertha Zurcher." Bertha Zurcher worked in Wellington Hospital during World War Two. After ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 1988
Staff from G. Bramall & Co, manufacturers of waterproof clothing, including 'Bramac' rainwear. The company employed women during the second world war and manufactured school uniform raincoats for nearly fifty years before closing in August 1981. E...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
Joe Hollander has over 40 years experience in building and construction, engineering, design, planning and development, operations, logistics and deployment management and governance, management and mentoring in New Zealand and overseas, within th...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 7, 2021
Staff from G. Bramall & Co, manufacturers of waterproof clothing, including 'Bramac' rainwear. The company manufactured school uniform raincoats for nearly fifty years before closing in August 1981. Eleven employees, many of whom had worked for th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Taonui Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1945
Joe Hollander has over 40 years experience in building and construction, engineering, design, planning and development, operations, logistics and deployment management and governance, management and mentoring in New Zealand and overseas, within th...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 28, 2021
This memorial and reserve behind it commemorates local soldiers who lost their lives during World War Two. The memorial is located on Lawton Road, behind the old school on Milson Line between Feilding and Palmerston North.
The plaque rea...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: Te Arakura
Date: May 15, 2021