Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th June 2025. Part 2 of 4. Was in NZ Navy ship The Royalist during the Suez crisis but was pulled out before the end. Many of the crew were married with family in New Zealand. Travelled through t...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 17, 2025

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 Manawatu People's Radio, 15th April 2025. Part 1 of 4.   Joined Royal New Zealand Navy 4th February 1954 at age 15. Grandfather joined Royal Navy in 1899 at age 15. He has two tattoos – one of an anchor and the other a bu...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 15, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th November 2020. Part 4 of 4.  Drinking culture. Driver’s last trip to Hawkes Bay. HB line nicknamed “Disneyland”, union activity. Scheduling. Inspectors. The guard in charge of the train. Drink dri...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 17, 2020

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 June, 1959. "A numer of lots of cased liquor were sold in Palmerston North by auction. The picture shows prospective buyers eyeing the liquor during the sale."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activites, and events. This month's issue includes: Christmas parade; rubbish; recycling; Victoria Esplanade play...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 2013

The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activites, and events. This month's issue includes: The Lido; Jim Jefferies; Jaycee Trust; water conservation, Civ...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 2014

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:          The Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date:          1966

This photograph comes from a small bound photograph album found in the Slack and Hewett Families archive. This albums contains informal photographs, mostly of the Hewett family. They lived on Long Melford Road, Awapuni at a homestead called "Waita...

Creator:      Hewett Family
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          1900 to 1910

The Dulux 6 Day Cycle Race ran down the length of the North Island. The final stage was from Palmerston North to Wellington. Cyclists are shown here on the starting line in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Dulux Ltd
Place:          Corner of the Square and Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1968

Competitors in the Dulux Six-Day Cycle race begin the Palmerston North to Wellington component from the starting line in Fitzherbert Avenue.

Creator:      Dulux Ltd
Place:          Corner of the Square and Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

The caption on this photograph reads, "Photo taken in the private bar of the Family Hotel in 1904. Barmaid is Dolly Grey, one of the first in Palmerston North."

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Featherston and Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1904

Eagle Brewery owned by Mr Harry Gattsche, was situated in Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North. From left: Bess the horse; Chris Gattsche unidentified; unidentified; Henry Gattsche.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1906

The Taverners Arms operated as the Railway Hotel from when it was built in 1905 until 1970 when it was granted a motel–hotel license. Previous owners included John Hurley (1905), William Owen (1914) and J Anderson (1920). In 1981 Super Liquor Man ...

Creator:      E Creamer
Date:          1982

This photograph shows the Barraud and Abraham Ltd Rugby Team. The banner behind them reads, "Whyte and Mackay" with the tab line "Feeling in the best of spirits" alongside an image of a person dipping their hand into a bottle of something, presuma...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          1911