Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The collection of shops and houses between St Mary's Church and number 89 Ruahine Street holds special memories for many citizens. In the 1950s and 1960s, there has bee...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 20, 2021
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
Date: September 1969
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Place: Unknown
Date: 1900 to 1932
This photograph shows a view of the Square from the corner of Main Street East to Fitzherbert Street (now Fitzherbert Avenue). It shows a few pedestrians enjoying the broad streets of the early Square and the Square Gardens. Five men are working o...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1906
Stephen Thomas Hunt operated a butcher's shop in Ashhurst before moving to Palmerston North and setting up a carrier's business. The building was later used as a bakery.
Creator: P P De Loree, Tourist Photographer
Place: Winchester Street, Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: circa 1895
This abattoir owned by Feilding Borough Council was built in 1903 by W. Wilkinson at a cost of £1,185. The managers residence cost £435/10/- to construct.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: circa 1903
The Company operated a smaller factory in Grey Street before the move to Longburn in the 1920s, By 1937, it was one of the largest in New Zealand, slaughtering 50,000 pigs each year.
Creator: Linotype Services, Palmerston North
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: 1937
8 Haydon Street, Roslyn, is now (2019) the site of the Palmerston North Samoan Assembly of God. Previously a co-op grocer and butcher had occupied the site.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: 8 Haydon Street, Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
The Occidental Hotel was erected c.1887 and was destroyed by fire in 1891. A second Occidental Hotel erected on the same site, was also burnt down in 1927. On the far left is the Club Hotel. The four two-storey buildings in the centre of the photo...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890
This abattoir owned by Feilding Borough Council. A hand-written note on the back of the photograph reads- "From right to left: Unknown, Pike; Ashworth; Frank Stewart; Divehall; A. Watson; R. Steward; R Steward."
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: 1912
The staff of the Longburn Freezing works have their photograph taken with a pair of sheep.
Creator: Bunting Studio
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1905
This image from around 1906 shows pedestrians walking on the roads through the square and railway workers working on the train tracks that once ran through the Square. The buildings, from left, are: The Occidental Hotel (built 1887) was extended w...
Creator: F T Series, no 735
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906
This photograph Part A of three part panorama of the Square. the photograph looks across the Church Street side of The Square. In the centre back can be seen the former BNZ on the Corner of Fitzherbert Street, and on the left back can be seen the ...
Creator: F W Young
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1912
The last carcass being loaded into 'Peck's Hygienic Butchery' van at the Palmerston North abattoir, the week of the abattoir's closing in April 1969. From left: O A Wiley; Jack Peck, butcher; A M Spillman, Manager of abattoir 1917-1950.
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 1969
This photograph, taken from the corner of Featherston Street looking down Rangitikei Street towards The Square, was published in the Times newspaper on 18 November, 1925 p 5. Woolworths Supermarket used to stand on the site occupied by Knight and ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1925
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
Date: May 1969
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
Date: May 1969
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
Date: May 1969
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
Date: May 1969
Four butchers pose with two dead cows awaiting butchering for sale. See also Mt 1 and Mt2.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
Three butchers and another worker pose in front of a slaughter house. See also Mt 1 and Mt 3.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
A hand written caption on the back of the print reads “Old Feilding Slaughter-house”. The name “Fitzpatrick” is also written on the back, presumably the name of the donor of the photograph. See also Mt 1 and Mt 3.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
This shows Meredith House, which the Thorrold-Jaggards designed, nearing completion.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1960s
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
Date: May 1969
Shown here the executives and buying staff of the Longburn Freezing works. Back Row: R. H MacDonalds, E.N. Rowe, C Hall, WW Gibb; G J Smith; GM Moffitt, H. Worksnop. Front Row: W.D. CAmpbell; J.T. Rogerson; G.R. Ritchie; W.E. Wilson and W Mcgilliv...
Creator: Lewis Studio Ltd, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: August 22, 1940
Timetable of the bus, baths and library services provided by the Palmerston North City Council in 1947. Also bus timetable on rural routes provided by Madge Motors.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1947