The old gasworks were located near the railways sheds. For a full account of the event, see Manawatu Standard, 5 August 1913, Page 5 in an article entitled "Explosion and Fire" (available online on www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz).
Creator: Unknown
Date: August 5, 1913
These images are part of the Frank Goldingham collection and were possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. They may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Broadway and Victoria Avenue corner, Palmerston North
Date: 1960
The Felixstowe was a barque trading into Ōtaki. She was wrecked on 13 October 1878 when - like the Hydrabad in June of the same year - she mistook the northern end of Kāpiti, on which there was no lighthouse, for Stephens Island in Cook Straight. ...
Creator: John Tiffin Stewart
Date: 1878
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 31 January 1958, page 5: While the Wellington Battery -- No. 122 -- was proceeding to its firing area at Ohau Beach on Wednesday morning this Landrover skidded in gravel...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ohau Beach
Date: January 31, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 31st January 1966 "Mr. Leonard Gray, of Sanson, who narrowly escaped death in a parachute jump at Mangere on Saturday, is carried from the Hovercraft which picked him up."
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Mangere, Auckland
Date: January 31, 1966
This photograph shows smoke billowing from the front of the building that housed the Alan Bramwell Drapery. It is unknown where this building is, but based on photographs that are in the same collection it is estimated the fire happened in the 1950s.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: unknown
Date: 1950s
Ingram and Wheatley's book "New Zealand Shipwrecks" relates the story of the "Fusilier", an iron barque of 404 tons net register. She went ashore, between Turakina and Rangitikei Rivers at midday on the 16th January 1884, but no lives were lost. S...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Between the Turakina and Rangitikei Rivers, Rangitikei Region
Date: circa 1963
Drum Point was a pickup point for goods going to Linton station. Other goods were also reportedly spread all over the hillside.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: circa 1920
This photograph shows the retrieval of the derailed freight engine KA 951, derailed into the Manawatu Gorge. The accident happened 20 August 1946. Two of the three crewmen were killed - B. Craighead and the fireman, R. Hoskins, while the guard, R ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Gorge, Manawatu
Date: 1946
Part of the salvage crew winch equipment down the banks of the Manawatu River in the Gorge. Engine driver Basil Craighead and Fireman R Hoskins drowned when their 140-tonne goods train was derailed by a slip and fell into the flooded Manawatu Rive...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: August 24, 1946
This rail crash occurred two km from the Palmerston North Railway Station on the run to Wellington. The only injuries sustained were those of the driver Mr Mayo while the seven passengers and Wally Wallbutton escaped unscathed.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Members of the Manawatu Motor Cycle Club [MMCC] of Palmerston North shown with the 10 mile race winner, Alex Anderson. Anderson raced with considerable success around the lower North Island from 1913-1918. This race was held at the Tauherenikau Ra...
Creator: W J Young, Mount Stewart
Place: Tauherenikau Racecourse, Wairarapa
Date: January 22, 1914
The premises of F N Andrews Furnishers Ltd, 184 - 190 Rangitikei Street, were destroyed by fire at about 2am, 13 July 1977. One of the oldest family businesses in Palmerston North, F N Andrews Furnishers Ltd was started in 1902 by Alfred Andrews, ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 184-190 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 13, 1977
This rail crash occurred two km from the Palmerston North Railway Station on the run to Wellington. The only injuries sustained were those of the driver Mr Mayo while the seven passengers and Wally Wallbutton escaped unscathed. See Manawatu Evenin...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This photograph shows the remains of a Royal Australian Airforce F-111 swing-wing aircraft after being taken to a hangar by truck. It crashed at the southern end of the runway. The plane was taking part in a Tasmanex exercise, the work crew member...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ohakea, Rangitikei Region
Date: August 1979
This photo shows Railways General Manager Mr Trevor Hayward (left) and Mr Bob Henare (assistant General Manager) at the scene of the derailment at Milson. Mr Hayward came to the conclusion that the accident was due to the driver speeding as he ent...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This image ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 January 1970 with the caption, "A give way sign and this traffic light, opposite Boots the chemist in Broadway Ave, Palmerston North were damaged when they were struck by a car about 8.30 am to...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Broadway Avenue and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: January 1970
The Skyhawk, piloted by Flight Lieutenant John Nicholas Dick, was on a routine exercise in the Colenso area of the Ruahine ranges when it crashed on March 25, 1981. Flight Lieutenant Dick was killed in the crash. This photograph shows what remain...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Near Taihape, Rangitikei Region
Date: February 26, 1981
This image ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 January 1970 with the caption, "A give way sign and this traffic light, opposite Boots the chemist in Broadway Ave, Palmerston North were damaged when they were struck by a car about 8.30 am to...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1970
This rail crash occurred two km from the Palmerston North Railway Station on the run to Wellington. The only injuries sustained were those of the driver Mr Mayo while the seven passengers and Wally Wallbutton escaped unscathed. Railways General Ma...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This rail crash occurred two km from the Palmerston North Railway Station on the run to Wellington. The only injuries sustained were those of the driver Mr Mayo while the seven passengers and Wally Wallbutton escaped unscathed. Railways General Ma...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson Line, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This photograph shows a funeral for the Air Force personnel lost on 25 November 1945 during a routine meteorological flight out of Ohakea. On March 19, 1949 the wreck of the RNZAF Ventura aeroplane with four crew members on-board was discovered; w...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 25, 1949
What remains of the derailed train on the tracks, above the flooded Manawatu River. Engine driver Basil Craighead and Fireman R Hoskins drowned when their 140-tonne goods train was derailed by a slip and fell into the flooded Manawatu River in the...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: State Highway 3, Palmerston North
Date: August 24, 1946
This photograph shows a derailment on the Palmerston North - Napier Line, Keith Street Palmerston North. About eighteen wagons were derailed.There were a spate of attempts to derail trains on the line, through the use of debris on the line, object...
Creator: S R Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1926
A dozen rifles fire the traditional salute for the deceased aircrew. The funeral is for the Air Force personnel lost on 25 November 1945 during a routine meteorological flight out of Ohakea. On March 19, 1949 the wreck of the RNZAF Ventura aeropla...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 25, 1949
Mr C. Holmwood was captain of the ship "Hydrabad", which was a full-rigged iron ship of 1250 tons net register with a length of 229 ft, a depth of 23.2 ft and a beam of 37.2 ft. The ship was built in Scotland in 1885. The ship wrecked on Waitarere...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1860 to circa 1870
A military padre leads Air Force personnel to their final resting place at Kelvin Grove Cemetery. Military personnel stand to attention as the funeral procession passes. The funeral is for the Air Force personnel lost on 25 November 1945 during a ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 25, 1949
At the time of this photograph the Palmerston North railway station and yards were in Main Street, just down from The Square. Mr Tom Pearce is extreme left and front. Others in the picture are identified as Peter Schellvis; Andre Zentveld; Bob Ing...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1953
Engine driver Basil Craighead and Fireman R Hoskins drowned when their 140-tonne goods train was derailed by a slip and fell into the flooded Manawatu River in the Manawatu Gorge on 20 August 1946. The steam engine sank under the flood waters and ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 24, 1946
Captain C. Holmwood was Captain of the "Hydrabad" which went ashore on Waitarere Beach on 25 June 1878 in gale force winds.The "Hydrabad" was a full-rigged iron ship of 1250 tons net register with a length of 229 ft, a depth of 23.2 ft and a beam ...
Creator: Ninzenberg, Masterton
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1903