Name: Bryant

Suburb, Takaro

The street was named for Mr Frederick Bryant, an early butcher and landowner in Palmerston North. He owned the land on which the original Bryant Street was formed. The street was extended in 1925, and <a href="...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library

Date:          2025

Name: Waldegrave

Suburb, Palmerston North Central

This street is named for Mr John James Waldegrave, who owned the land. Mr JJ Waldegrave put through nine chains (chain = 66 feet/20.12 metres) from the Cuba Street end in 1875, D.P. 22, se...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          2025

Frederick John Oakley was one of the first carpenters in Palmerston North in partnership with Meyrick and Perrin, the local undertakers. Meyrick, Perrin and Oakley established in 1871. Advertisements in the local papers from the time indicate they...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1880

Builder - Partner in Meyrick, Perrin and Oakely, established 1871. See also 2013N_Pi191_007418.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1871

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 16 June 1961 "Approximately 400 were in attendance when a demonstration evening was held last night in the Concert Chamber for local builders and architects in the use o...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 16, 1961

A war memorial to commemorate local soldiers who died in World War One was erected in the centre of The Square, Palmerston North, in 1926. The figure that sits atop the memorial was based on a similar one in Folkstone, England. Today it also comme...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 7, 1926