This is the home of the Prentice family in Boundary Road. The brickworks can be seen at the back of the cottage. All the bricks in All Saint's Church and many other local buildings were made here. Christian names from left to right: Albert Bernard...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
All Saints Anglican Church is in Church Street, on the edge of The Square. It was built in 1914, replacing the former Anglican Church. It is currently designated an earthquake risks and plans are underway to strengthen the building, add additional...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 338 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 2018
The Feilding Court House was built in 1909. It was reblocked and renovated in the 1950s to a more modern appearance than its original Edwardian architecture. In 2012 it was closed as being an earthquake risk, and its future is questionable.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Kimbolton Rd and Stafford St, Feilding
Date: December 11, 1979
Glaxo Laboratories closed their Bunnythorpe factory in May 1974. Glaxo began their dried milk operations in Bunnythorpe in 1904, as Joseph Nathan Co. Ltd. 'Glaxo' became the brand name for their baby milk product and Glaxo Laboratories was formed ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Campbell Road, Bunnythorpe, Manawatu
Date: September 17, 1973
The Palmerston North Hospital was opened in 1893, and has been substantially altered and added on to, on the same site, over the years. Photograph shows external views of the Princess Mary and Prince of Wales wards, probably built c1920.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North Hospital, Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Bible Class of Palmerston North, at a Retreat at Feilding House, 280 Kimbolton Road. This house is now the Beauchamp Funeral Home (2010). Back from left: Maurice Thompson; Don Viles; Ron McCulloch; Margaret Osborn(?); Bet...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 280 Kimbolton Raod, Feilding
Date: 1953
The Tiritea Dairy is a typical suburban 'corner shop', on the corner of Albert and Featherston streets. (Still operating in 2018)
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: 418 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1998
Palmerston North Public Hospital was opened in 1893. The hospital remains on the same site but buildings have been demolished, added and renovated over the years. This building is thought to be either part of the new operating theatre completed in...
Creator: Evening Post, Wellington
Place: Heretaunga Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
A group of men in front of the Breeders' Club in Pascal Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1900s
This church, originally called St Paul's, was designed by James Bennie in 1911 and was the third Methodist church on the Broadway site. It closed in February 2011 after the Christchurch earthquake and was demolished in 2020.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1970
This third All Saints Church, constructed on the same site in Palmerston North, was erected 1913-1914. The architect was Frederick de Jersey Clere and the design is in the English Gothic style.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
This house in Linton Street was one of five established around New Zealand in 1978 under the Government’s Emergency Housing Scheme. The house was bought by the Housing Corporation and leased at a nominal rent to the Palmerston North City Council, ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 23, 1978
'Kowhai' (nearest) and 'Totara' are family homes for intellectually handicapped people. These homes were constructed as part of a community care programme intrduced by the Government in 1974, to introduce intellectually handicapped people to famil...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Cook and College Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 19, 1979
This building, and others on the site, were built in 1915 for the Feilding Borough Council, who at the time operated the Municipal Electricity Department. The photograph is just prior to the buildings demolition to allow access between a new Counc...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Feilding, Manawatu
Date: March 3, 1980
The Manawatu Kilwinning Lodge was designed in an Italianate style by Palmerston North architect, L G West, and built in 1908 by the Timber Sash and Door Company. The lodge was established in Palmerston North in 1883 and met in various places until...
Creator: O Taylor
Place: 363 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
This colour print shows All Saints Church in Church Street West.
Place: 338 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 1964
The St Andrew’s Presbyterian Bible Class retreat held at Feilding House, 280 Kimbolton Road. This house is now (2011) the Beauchamp Funeral Home. Jean Coleman taking a photograph of: Unknown; Gordon McLaughlin; the Rev. Colin Sherriff; Beth Thomps...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1953
Situated at Terrace End the Power House commenced supplying power to Palmerston North and to the Manawatu-Oroua Electric Power Board in May 1924. The power station operated as the main supply throughout the 1920s and at times in the 1930s, and con...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 5, 2011
Walter Turner's business was situated at 3 Queen Street, Palmerston North, in the 1920s. It later became Magnus Motors and then H Clapham Service Station, in the later 1930s. From left: J Anderson; W Carruthers; Harold Clapham; Newman; A Bruce; D...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
Six nurses pose outside of the Nurses Home. The Palmerston North Hospital was opened in 1893, and has been substantially altered and added on to, on the same site, over the years. The Nures Home was built in 1915, and enlarged in the late 1930s.
Creator: Managan
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The brickyard was at the corner of Church Street and Alexandra Street (now Victoria Avenue) and this view shows the horse-powered mixer, for mixing clay and water. Not the long pole with the counter weight and wheelbarrow in foreground.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1890s
This Central Fire Station was located in Cuba Street, Palmerston North, and built in 1926 when the previous Station was outgrown. It could accommodate 5 fire engines and had living accommodation for the officers. It served as the Station until 197...
Creator: A Taylor
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
workmen construcat a chimney on the rear of a Foxton house located opposite the state school in Foxton.
Creator: L Daroux
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1902
This Anglican church was the third on the site. The first All Saints was built 1875, a second larger building was constructed 1882, incorporating the original building, and the third and current All Saints built in 1914.
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: 338 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: August 30, 1964
This Anglican church was the third on the site. The first All Saints was built 1875, a second larger building was constructed 1882, incorporating the original building, and the third and current All Saints built in 1914.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 338 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1930
This Fire Station was opened in 1926, the second to be built in Cuba Street. Two of the Fire Engines seen in the photo were in use at the old Fire Station and the third engine was purchased when this Station was constructed.
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1939
An All Saints Children's Home was established in 1906. This building was constructed in Pascal Street in 1931, to replace the original house on the corner of Ada and Ferguson Streets. In 1964, changing attitudes saw more children placed in foster ...
Creator: A S Pope
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1950