Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 25th February 2025. Part 1 of 2. Born in Palmerston North and lived in Bunnythorpe until she was 19 years old then moved to Hawkes Bay to teach. Father worked at electricity sub station at Bunnythorpe...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 25, 2025
This map has been created by collaging together cadastral maps of various boroughs and counties in the vicinity of Palmerston North, including the areas around Shannon, Foxton and Tokomaru.
Date: 1957
A plan from 1886 showing the section allotments in the town of Bunnythorpe.
Creator: New Zealand Survey
Place: Bunnythorpe
Date: July 1886
This plan for the Bunnythorpe Public Hall was designed by Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919). The Danish-born architect established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he formed a partnership with is son, Ernest Vilh...
Creator: L G West
Date: 1900
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Two World War 1 soldiers from Bunnythorpe, Len and Pat Argyle, wrote letters home to their parents from the war front.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 24, 2021
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 August 1958, page 8: "Mrs. Howard, formerly Miss Mary Jane Jefferies, a first day pupil of the Bunnythorpe School is seen cutting the jubilee cake during the banquet ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 18, 1958
Arthur Koehler was born in Palmerston North to a German father and Danish mother. In 1917, he is listed on his military record as living and working in Gisborne. He is shown here stumping with a jack.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Bunnythorpe, Manawatū
Date: 1912
This map details the major driving routes in and around the Manawatu District as in the 1970s. The reverse gives a potted history of Palmerston North and lists some of of the regions most popular features, including parks, beaches and other amenit...
Creator: Automobile Association
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1976
Movies in Parks summer series event in Bunnythorpe. Showing film We Bought a Zoo.
Creator: Dean Giddens
Date: January 25, 2019
A view of Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe.
Creator: Wendy Ellingham
Place: Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe
Date: 1966
A view of Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe.
Creator: Wendy Ellingham
Place: Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe
Date: 1966
A view of Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe.
Creator: Wendy Ellingham
Place: Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe
Date: 1975
A view of Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe.
Creator: Wendy Ellingham
Place: Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe
Date: 1975
Just before the Easter break 2019 the local community organised a successful event to bring people's attention to the Owen Street playground and increase the usage and visibility of this asset. A team of three - Bunnythorpe resident Amy Philips, E...
Creator: Julia Panfylova
Place: Owen Street, Bunnythorpe
Date: April 18, 2019
The railway line from Palmerston North runs down at an angle from the top of the photograph, near the left hand corner, and then across to the right hand side. The road from Ashhurst runs from the mid-point of the left hand side up towards the ra...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Bunnythrope, Palmerston North
Date: 1978
Murray Phillips is engaging with the Bunnythorpe community on the Village Gateway Project at the Movies in Parks event in Bunnythorpe
Creator: Dean Giddens
Date: January 25, 2019
An Austin 10 parked on Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe.
Creator: Wendy Ellingham
Place: Dixon's Line, Bunnythorpe
Date: 1967
This booklet contains a variety of aerial photographs from the region, including Palmerston North, Levin, Foxton, Bunnythorpe, Feilding, Longburn and Bulls.
Creator: Whites Aviation Limited
Place: Manawatū
Date: 1950s