Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28th April 2020. Part 2 of 2. Teacher training in Christchurch from 1951. Catholic Youth Movement. Teaching at Hokowhitu, then Marton Junction (51 children in the class). Then to Terrace End. Other ac...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: April 28, 2020
The interior of St Joseph's Church in Jerusalem. The church was designed by Thomas Turnbull and constructed in 1892. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1888.
Creator: John Wheeler
Place: 5050 Whanganui River Road, Jerusalem
Date: March 2000
St Joseph's Church in Jerusalem on the banks of the Whanganui River. The church was designed by Thomas Turnbull and constructed in 1892. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1888.
Creator: John Wheeler
Place: 5050 Whanganui River Road, Jerusalem
Date: March 2000
St Joseph's Church in Jerusalem on the banks of the Whanganui River. The church was designed by Thomas Turnbull and constructed in 1892. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1888.
Creator: John Wheeler
Place: 5050 Whanganui River Road, Jerusalem
Date: March 2000
St Joseph's Church in Jerusalem on the banks of the Whanganui River. The church was designed by Thomas Turnbull and constructed in 1892. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1888.
Creator: John Wheeler
Place: 5050 Whanganui River Road, Jerusalem
Date: March 2000
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 June 1961 "Sixteen debutantes made their curtsy to the Rt. Rev. Monsignor A.J. McRae last evening at the 15th annual Charity Ball in the Ballroom Astoria. Besides giv...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 24, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 June 1961 "Sixteen debutantes made their curtsy to the Rt. Rev. Monsignor A.J. McRae last evening at the 15th annual Charity Ball in the Ballroom Astoria. Besides giv...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 24, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 June 1961 "Sixteen debutantes made their curtsy to the Rt. Rev. Monsignor A.J. McRae last evening at the 15th annual Charity Ball in the Ballroom Astoria. Besides giv...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 24, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 July 1958, page 6: "Priests of the Roman Catholic Church formed a guard of honour from the entrance of St. Patrick's Church for the funeral of Father Leo Kisseck. Sol...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: July 21, 1958
Palmerston North’s first Roman Catholic church was erected in Broadway (near Berryman’s Lane) in 1877. It was replaced in 1890 by the first St. Patrick’s Church, which in turn was replaced by this building in 1923-25 on a new site..
It was design...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 197 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: July 2020
This St Patrick's was the third Catholic Church to be erected in Palmerston North, at a new site further along Broadway Avenue. It was opened 22 March 1925. Extensive renovations took place in the mid 1960s, and in 1980 it achieved cathedral status.
Creator: Alexander Robertson, for PNCC
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 2, 2021
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century and is part of the Young collection. Since publication to Manawatū Heritage, this image has been identified as Villa Maria Boarding house and School in Whanganui, c.1900....
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
This Palmerston North convent was built in 1925, designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere. The convent's main facade was asymetrically composed around a castellated central block, with a white figurine in the middle of this block (this can now be see...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitchett Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
Reverend Father P.C. Costello died in Palmerston North 7 December 1912. The funeral was very large with 50 priests from all over the district attending. The procession is shown at the corner of Broad Street (now Broadway) and The Square.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1912
The St Patrick’s Catholic Presbytery was opened in July 1963 by Reverend Father R M Keegan, priest of St Patrick’s Church.
Creator: Thelma Walters
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1967
An interior view of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: 197 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 2005
St Patrick's School was built in 1916 in Pirie Street. It was a Catholic school and convent. It was demolished in 1994.
Creator: F A Tier
Place: Pirie Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1939
St Patrick's School was built in 1916 in Pirie Street. It was a Catholic school and convent. It was demolished in 1994.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pirie Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1939
The Fitchett Street Convent was the third built for the Sisters of Mercy in Palmerston North. It was designed by Clere and Clere and built by Trevor Bros in 1925 -1926. It was orginally part of a complex of buildings, with two primary schools and ...
Creator: Evening Post, Wellington
Place: Fitchett Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
Sister Stanislaus (Ruth Vella), one of the teaching nuns at St. Joseph's School, standing in the driveway at the Convent of Mercy of Fitchett Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitchett Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
St. Joseph's was a girls' school which stood where (as of 2014) the Metlife retirement and hospital complex is located in Fitchett Street, with the entrance at the corner of Grey Street. The teachers at St. Joseph's were nuns from the order of Our...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitchett Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1958
Members of the Catholic Women’s Guild Singing Circle dressed in costume.
Creator: Mechen Family
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
The Catholic Women’s Guild Singing Circle. Dorothy Mechen was the choir mistress.
Creator: Mechen Family
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This photograph was taken from the spire of the Roman Catholic Church in Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue), possibly just after it was completed in 1890. The two-storey buildings on the far-left are facing into the Square (on the site of Waldegra...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 197 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1890 to 1894