A group photograph of parishoners at All Saints' Anglican Church, with some dressed for a nativity play.

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Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 7, 1961

Anglican services began in Palmerston North in 1872. This All Saints Church, built 1914, was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere in Edwardian Free Gothic style and constructed in brick. It was the third such Anglican church on the same site. It ...

Creator:      Elizabeth Creamer
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Anglican services began in Palmerston North in 1872. This All Saints Church, built 1914, was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere in Edwardian Free Gothic style and constructed in brick. It was the third such Anglican church on the same site. It ...

Creator:      Elizabeth Creamer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Anglican services began in Palmerston North in 1872. This All Saints Church, built 1914, was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere in Edwardian Free Gothic style and constructed in brick. It was the third such Anglican church on the same site. It ...

Creator:      Elizabeth Creamer
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Anglican services began in Palmerston North in 1872. This All Saints Church, built 1914, was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere in Edwardian Free Gothic style and constructed in brick. It was the third such Anglican church on the same site. It ...

Creator:      Elizabeth Creamer
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

The wooden church hall was originally built as the All Saints Church in 1881 by Meyrick, Perrin and Oakley and was dedicated by Bishop Hadfield on 16 February 1882. It replaced the first Anglican church, built on the site in 1875, which was incorp...

Creator:      Elizabeth Creamer
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Anglican services began in Palmerston North in 1872. This All Saints Church, built 1914, was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere in Edwardian Free Gothic style and constructed in brick. It was the third such Anglican church on the same site. It ...

Creator:      Elizabeth Creamer
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Anglican services began in Palmerston North in 1872. This All Saints Church, built 1914, was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere in Edwardian Free Gothic style and constructed in brick. It was the third such Anglican church on the same site. It ...

Creator:      Elizabeth Creamer
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Anglican services began in Palmerston North in 1872. This All Saints Church, built 1914, was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere in Edwardian Free Gothic style and constructed in brick. It was the third such Anglican church on the same site. It ...

Creator:      Elizabeth Creamer
Place:          338 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

 The Wesley Broadway Church was originally called St Paul's. It was  designed by James Bennie in 1911 and was the third Methodist church on  this site. In 1989 the two Methodist churches in Palmerston North (the  other in Cu...

Creator:      Elizabeth Gardner
Place:          264 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          May 14, 2020

These unpublished images were taken alongside an image that was captioned in the Manawatū Evening Standard on 17th December 1973.

"Organisers and helpers raise the poster that will be the front-piece on the Palmerston North Clock Tower for Sunday...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 17, 1973

The group that later formed the Palmerston North branch of the Anglican Church Embroidery Guild commenced meeting informally at St Peter's Church in September 1951. Mrs R L Bennett, who had trained with the Royal School of Needlework, visited Palm...

Creator:      Anglican Church Embroidery Guild, St Peter's Church
Date:          1951 to 1959

The first St Peters Anglican Church opened in July 1902. It was designed by Mr Larcomb and built by Mr Griggs for ₤410, on Ruahine Street across from the Broadway Avenue intersection. The original church was replaced by the present St Peters in 1961.

Date:          June 1952

The Ashhurst Methodist Church was originally built at 52 Cambridge Avenue. The first service was held on 14 March 1886. In 1911, it was mounted on wheels and relocated to 57 Bamfield Street by William Melverton's traction engine. On 15 October 201...

Date:          circa 1912

St Mary Magdalene Church was designed by the Anglican diocesan architect Frederick de Jersey Clere in the Gothic Revival style. Construction began in 1897 and the building was consecrated in 1900. It was Ashhurst's second Anglican church, replacin...

Creator:      Wilson
Date:          circa 1930

A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 20, 1963

A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 20, 1963

A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 20, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 October, 1959. "The first New Zealand Seventh-day Adventist laymen's congress was opened in the Opera House last night by the Deputy-Mayor (Cr. D. T. Spring). The con...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          380 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1, 1959

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of the Chapel of St Michael the Archangel Orthodox church. After World War 2, a large group of displaced persons from Europe settled in Manawatū, bringing with them t...

Creator:      Tanya Kopytko
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 21, 2024

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

A veiw of Jerusalem and the Whanganui River. St Joseph's Church is in the centre of the frame.

Creator:      John Wheeler
Place:          Jerusalem
Date:          March 2000

The Rātana movement was established by Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana in the early 20th century.

Creator:      John Wheeler
Place:          Waipounamu Street, Rātana
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 shows the interior of St Paul's Presbyterian Church on Victoria Avenue, Whanganui. The memorial plaques on either side of the organ commemorate Rev. David Hogg and Rev. J. Treadwell and were installed in September 1897. The building sho...

Creator:      William James Young
Date:          circa 1897 to circa 1913

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Central Baptist Church celebrates its quasquicentennial, 125 years since it started. The article includes highlights from its history, historical details of church ...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 26, 2019

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard. Church Organ pipes being installed at the St. Peter's Church. Another image of the pipes was published on 26 June, 1963.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 26, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 December 1962, "Yesterday Pastor Ian Travena officiated at the double wedding of Misses Alison and Joan Rusco, both from Tauranga. Above are the two couples as they ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Ferguson and Morris Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 21, 1962