This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard. It depicts employee Alan Dickson with Christmas food pacels. Alan was employed at the newspaper from 1987 until 2003. He started at the front counter, then moved to circulation then ad...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 1988
Looking north over the city from the top of the old Public Library building on Main Street. In the distance at right can be see the multi storey Palmerston North Hospital. St Patrick's Cathedral spire is the other notable landmark. The building on...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
Ropes divide off the New Zealand Collection from the remainder of the reference collection and a sign tells borrowers why. The City Librarian, Ian Malcolm, estimates that 3-4% of the collection is disappearing off the shelves. This means that betw...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1982
This building was constructed as the fifth Palmerston North Public Library, opening in 1965 as a multi-purpose complex with shops on the street fronts and upper floors rented out as offices. By 1992 the Library occupied all but the third floor and...
Creator: Matt Ryan
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1988
The first image in this set was published in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Saturday, April 27 1985 with a caption but no accompanying story. The other images were not published.
“Feilding Gay Task Force members flank the Salvation Army Centenn...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Feilding
Date: April 27, 1985
Prince Charles visited Palmerston North during the day of 2 April 1981. As part of his visit he opened the newly built Manawatu Sports Stadium. See also "Evening Standard Souvenir of the visit of HRH Prince Charles, April 2, 1981".
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 2, 1981
Lombard Street is one of the older streets of Palmerston North. The land this house is on was listed as being owned by Thomas Hall, a wheeler, in the 1897 Valuation Roll. The house probably dates from about this time, and was owned by William Sidd...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 25 Lombard Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The Andrews Building on George Street was constructed in 1929 for S. Andrews.
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: 36 George Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 1988
The H.L Young building on Broadway Avenue. Henry Llewellyn Young (c1877-1954) established a printing business with Lindsey Buick in 1901, Buick and Young, in Cuba Street, Palmerston North. When Buick dropped out of the business in 1912 it became k...
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: 63-67 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1985
G H Bennetts, established 1891, constructed this building c1917-1918. The shop front was renovated in 1965. Bennett was instrumental in changing the name of Broad Street into Broadway, which became official in 1926.
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: 34-36 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1988
A view of Broadway Avenue showing the former Berryman's, Broadway Chambers and Coronation Buildings.
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: 78-100 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1988
View of the road access under Palmerston North Civic Administration Building.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980?
View of the completed Palmerston North Civic Administration Building, with the Council Chambers in front of the main building. Cars were still able to park in the Square on the site of the old railway line.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980?
A history of the Linton School and district, to celebrate 100 years of Linton School. Also includes information on James Linton, local governance, local agriculture and Linton Army Camp.
Creator: W J Lauridsen
Place: Linton, Manawatū
Date: 1989
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 May 1989 with the caption : "Sole Brothers' Circus' Minyak rallies for the cause outside the Regent Theatre on Saturday." Minyak wore banners with slogans aimed at co...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: May 15, 1989
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 July 1986 about the Highbury School production about the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. 44 children took part in the musical. The original music for the product...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Date: July 1986
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatū Evening Standard on 2 July 1987 with the caption, "Kerridge-Odeon regional manager Valmond Page outside the Regent Theatre with a cabinet radio made in America in 1929 and a Phillips f...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: July 2, 1987
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 May 1989 with the caption : "Sole Brothers' Circus' Minyak rallies for the cause outside the Regent Theatre on Saturday." Minyak wore banners with slogans aimed at co...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: May 15, 1989
This image ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on August 24, 1987 with the caption, "Here she is! Palmerston North's Tulip Queen, 1987, is 20-year-old Chris Gerritsen. The Dutch beauty was one of five who competed for the title on Saturday night,...
Creator: Manawatu Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 24, 1987
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 May 1989 with the caption : "Sole Brothers' Circus' Minyak rallies for the cause outside the Regent Theatre on Saturday." Minyak wore banners with slogans aimed at co...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: May 15, 1989
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 May 1989 with the caption : "Sole Brothers' Circus' Minyak rallies for the cause outside the Regent Theatre on Saturday." Minyak wore banners with slogans aimed at co...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: May 15, 1989
This Library building was built in 1905 and was used until September 1980 when the Library moved to Bowen Street, Feilding.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Feilding
Date: February 1981
The Butterfly Lakelet was constructed in 1909 by the then Beautification Society. The fountains were added in the 1960s.
Taken by 'Photo Instruments' when testing a camera or lens. Photo Instruments originally operated in Rangitikei Street, with ...
Creator: Merlyn or Alfred Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
Originally known as 'Manawatu Buildings', this structure on the corner of George and Cuba Streets was erected in 1929 for Messrs. A. H. White, E. D. Berry and R. A. Port. The architect was C. Tilleard Natusch of Wellington. The three-storey buildi...
Creator: Matt Ryan
Place: Corner George and Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1988
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
This image was taken as part a feature that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on January 17 1987 about the work of Māori Wardens in Marton. According to the story that accompanied the photographs, Māori Wardens were instituted in 1937 and by 19...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Marton
Date: January 1987
This image was taken as part a feature that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on January 17 1987 about the work of Māori Wardens in Marton. According to the story that accompanied the photographs, Māori Wardens were instituted in 1937 and by 19...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Marton, Manawatu
Date: January 1987
This image accompanied a feature ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on January 17 1987 about the work of Māori Wardens in Marton. According to the story that accompanied the photographs, Māori Wardens were instituted in 1937 and by 1987 there we...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Marton
Date: January 1987
The photograph shows some protesters outside the courthouse, with their placards demanding the resignation of District Court Judge J.W.P. Watts after remarks he made when sentencing a man convicted of assaulting his de facto wife. Identified are D...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: August 19, 1980
Pictured are two students, names unknown, attending a party in the Massey halls of residence.
Creator: David Foster
Place: Rotary Court, Massey University
Date: 1986