This image of Joyce Una Baker is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a private maternity hospi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Ruahine Street and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

This image of nurses is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a private maternity hospital for m...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

This image of the exterior of Rostrata Maternity Home is from a series of slides that shows life at that private hospital in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a p...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1958

This image of the exterior of Rostrata Maternity Home is from a series of slides that shows life at that private hospital in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a p...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

Pat and Jan playing in the garden of the Hayes family home at 11 Anderson Street, Palmerston North.

Creator:      Thomas Hayes [?]
Place:          11 Anderson Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1953

Looking down Fitzherbert Avenue, on the left corner is what was once the public library, on the opposite corner is the premises of Firestone. On the right corner is the Bank of New Zealand.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 6th October 2020. Part 3 of 5.  Marriage, parents approval, wedding and reception. Moving to Palmerston North, teaching at West End School for 3 years, 1950s. Wife working, then family. Travel to work....

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 6, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People’s Radio, 17th October 2023. Always lived in Palmerston North. Started school about 1950. Catholic school. Playing behind the YMCA in Grey Street. Family bought State house in Ascott St. Building standards then and now....

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Date:          October 17, 2023

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 11th October 2022.  Listening to the radio in the 1950s. Aunt Daisy, Children’s Hour, Lone Ranger. Reception problems. 2ZA locally, Garners and shopping reporters. Song requests, hit parades. In the Ba...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 11, 2022

Three barefoot, bareback riding boys. Horse paddock, Carnarvon School, 1959.

Stan Holmes was Headmaster of Carnarvon School from 1955-1961. He was a keen photographer and these are his photos taken during those years.

Creator:      Stan Holmes
Place:          Carnarvon School
Date:          1959

Carnarvon School pupils watch sheep dipping on visit to Burne's Farm, 1956.

Stan Holmes was Headmaster of Carnarvon School from 1955-1961. He was a keen photographer and these are his photos taken during those years.

Creator:      Stan Holmes
Place:          Carnarvon
Date:          1956

Carnarvon School swimming pool and changing rooms.

Stan Holmes was Headmaster of Carnarvon School from 1955-1961. He was a keen photographer and these are his photos taken during those years.

Creator:      Stan Holmes
Place:          Carnarvon School
Date:          1957

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st December 2020. Part 2 of 4.  Ballroom dancing – learn at school in 1940s, dances in the 1950s. Debutants. Formal dress. Athletics. Milk bars. Drinking age, pubs. Smoking. Neil getting a pipe. Young...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 1, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th April 2020. Part 1 of 6.  Student at Massey Agricultural College in 1949. Milk testing. Student life, hostels, returned servicemen. Female students, C J Monro’s house. Hostel raids. Capping week. A...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 7, 2020

Broadcast on 28th January 2020. Part 1 of 2.  Father’s memories of Palmerston North from early 1900s. Horse-drawn tram carrying metal for roads. The 1941 flood. Stop banks, dredging. Father grew flowers in nursery (A J Shailer). Flown comm...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 28, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 12th November 2019. Part 2 of 3.   Moving into a state house. Father getting rehabilitation of wounded soldiers, then office work. Brian and brother getting odd jobs while at school (9 years old)....

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Feilding
Date:          November 12, 2019

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 19th March 2024. Part 1 of 2.   Sunday roast dinners. No refrigerators. Perishable food was kept in safes with air flow. Roast chicken only for special occasions. Difference between European and A...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 19, 2024

This image is believed to depict a section of Fitzherbert Avenue. The original Plane trees are visible on either side of the road, and the stucco and chain fence in the middle-right of the image could be from the Esplanade.

The image comes from a...

Creator:      S. A. Free
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          195X

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 November 1958: "Nothing is left to chance when an R.N.Z.A.F. flight is arranged. Here L.A.C. W. Meldrum, a woman signaller on the staff at Ohakea, is seen at the radi...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ohakea
Date:          November 19, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 September, 1959. "Major R. M. Martin, the commanding officer of a week-long refresher course for warrant officers at Linton Military Camp, chats with several of the c...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Linton Military Camp, Palmerston North
Date:          September 18, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 December 1958: "The nurses of the Palmerston North Hospital entertained the patients by singing carols through the wards on Christmas Eve. Here is a scene of the nurs...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 26, 1958

This photograph shows Edward (Ted) John Randolph and Doreen Ettie Patricia Woodmass, who were married in 1950.

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Shannon
Date:          1950

This photograph shows the wedding of Edward (Ted) John Randolph and Doreen Ettie Patricia Randolph in 1950.

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Shannon
Date:          1950

The display window features summer fashions in a beach setting, entitled 'Season in the Sun'. An existng business was reorganised into the PDC in 1915 when bought by James Wallace, and a new 3 storey building was constructed in 1929. The business ...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1959

Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 30 July, 2019. Kevin Burrows and Rod Watt, Part 1 of 2.

Time at school together from 1948. Polio epidemic. Discipline, mischief. Palmerston North Technical College. Burning the teacher’s cane. Palmerston Nort...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 30, 2019

Broadcast on Access Manawatū on 9 April, 2019. Cliff Simpson, part 2 of 3. Focused on sport in school, athletics, rugby. Middle distance running, training methods, successes up to 1950 Empire Games. Racing Australian half-mile champion. Rugby for ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 9, 2019

Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 30 April, 2019. Tom Stoneley, part 2 of 2. With Gwen Stoneley. Gwen left school in 1950. Office work. Tom had identical twin brother. Little social life. Worked long hours. Ewe fairs. Holding paddocks. Size of ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 2019

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 4 December 2018.

Alison Mildon. Summary: Family cars. Restrictions on overseas currency. Primary school. Localised communities. World War Two and ages of children. Getting to secondary school (Freyberg). Drivi...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Date:          December 4, 2018

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 July 1958, page 10: "Some of the delegates from a wide area who are attending the sheep farmers' conference which is being held in the Opera House."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          382 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 2, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 December, 1959. “A party of Army cadets arrive by truck at Linton Camp for the weekend instruction course.”

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Linton
Date:          December 15, 1959