The Gorge Hotel was built for Thomas and Mary Lowes as an accommodation house. It was situated on top of the terrace opposite Ashhurst Domain, on the southwest side of the road leading from Ashhurst to the bridge over the Manawatū River. The build...

Date:          1908 to 1910

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7 February, 1959. "The Palmerston North City Council staff held its annual picnic for the employees and the public today at Plimmerton. The carriages were well filled."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

"Cars and a horse-drawn carriage parked on the road that ran into The Square. Photo taken from the corner of Rangitikei Street (probably from the Clarendon Hotel).

Frank Duncan and Co. tourist Series, postcard no. 1324."

Creator:      Frank Duncan and Co.
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This view appears in Whalley and Co. “Souvenir of Manawatu Gorge” and is entitled “On the Palmerston-Ashhurst road, near the Gorge”. It is possibly the hill just south of Raukawa Road.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Between Palmerston North and the Gorge
Date:          circa 1907

The Foxton railway line was opened as a wooden tramway to Palmerston North, operating 1871–1873. It converted to iron 1875–1876. The line was closed 19 July 1959.

Creator:      New Zealand Railways
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1949