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, 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 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
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 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
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 April 1958, page 14: "At Manawaroa Park on Saturday afternoon last in the Nurses v. High School Old Girls game a High School Old Girl is a moment too late with her bl...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Huia Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 24, 1958
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
Plans for renovation work undertaken on the Regent Theatre.
Creator: L.G. West Son and Callendar Architects
Place: 53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: April 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 was taken by the Manawatu Evening Standard to illustrate fashion, but it was not used. The women are unidentified, but the location appears to be the Woodville Racecourse.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 13, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 July 1958, page 10: "The Fifth Form school certificate art class at the Girls' High School today visited the "Manawatu Standard" accompanied by their mistress, Mrs. S...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 23, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 May 1958, page 9: "The Kia Toa and Manawatu line-out specialist, W. Hearn, reaches far greater height than any of his team mates or opponents in a match between Old B...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: May 19, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 March 1958, page 4: "Intent on her task of conducting a test for true type in white clover, Mrs. J. Reid, a technical assistant at the Seed Testing Station, fails to ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 14, 1958
Roy Street, near Tremaine Avenue intersection, 1953 flood.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1953
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, 30 October 2018. Margaret Beere. Summary: 1951 to State House in Ross Block (now Roslyn), could buy. “Ross Block kids”. Primary schools, zoning. Then Intermediate, long way to go. Get meat from butcher first t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: October 30, 2018
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 Manawatū People's Radio, 1st October 2019. Keith Clark, part 3 of 4. Teaching experience. Bulls, then to a sole charge school. 22 children, 20 coming on horseback. Monthly school trip to Taumarunui. Injured kiwi at the school. Using t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: October 1, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 19th March 2019. Lorraine Holtham, Part 4 of 5. Work after left school, early 1950s. Going on strike. Common to marry in teens. Big families common. Rollerskating. Dress code at work. Dressing smartly ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 19, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 26th March 2019. Lorraine Holtham, Part 5 of 5. With young children, part-time work on the Tote. Husband building concrete tanks. Older children at home until school age. Job assembling venetian ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 26, 2019
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