Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Pam Rush shares memories of her mother Frieda McDonald and the recipe book Frieda started in the 1920s.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 24, 2010
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 July 1961 "Corporal F.C. Webb (left) and Sergeant W.J. Gray preparing the base for a sauce which was used later when the two cooked a tasty egg omelette for a "Manawa...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 12, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 30 December 1958: "A very important person at the Boy's Brigade camp at Foxton Beach is the cook, Flight Sergeant W. Boyer, of Ohakea. In the warm weather yesterday Mr. ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Foxton Beach
Date: December 30, 1958
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 April 1985 with the caption, "Highbury Scouts helped celebrate their 21st birthday on Saturday by raising the flag on a tower built from sticks and rope. The tow...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Highbury, Palmerston North
Date: April 1985
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 April 1985 with the caption, "Highbury Scouts helped celebrate their 21st birthday on Saturday by raising the flag on a tower built from sticks and rope. The tow...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: HIghbury, Palmerston North
Date: April 1985
This house was built in 1902 by Lawrence Laurenson for his family. The Laurenson family continued to occupy it at least until the 1980s. The Laurenson family emigrated from the Shetland Islands arriving on the ‘Avalanche’ in 1875. This building is...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 451 College Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
'Totaranui' was built in Fitzroy Street by Peter Manson, a sawmiller, c1875. It is one of the oldest remaining houses in Palmerston North. It was built of locally milled totara and was named 'Totara-nui', meaning large totara, by Manson. It remain...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The recipes from this book were contributed to the Patriotic Society from around the region. Chapters include food items like biscuits, soups, "made up dishes" and egg dishes, but there are also chapters about beverages, sauces and "miscellaneous"...
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Date: 1917
A reproduction of Our Own Cookery Book compiled by Mrs J. West for the Ashhurst Town Band Bazaar. The cook book features community submitted recipes (including the names of contributors) and includes many advertisements of local area businesses.
Creator: J. West
Place: Ashhurst
Date: November 1904
This cookbook was produced for the Ashhurst and Pohangina centennial celebrations. The recipes were provided by members of the community and offer an insight into cooking in pre-1970s rural New Zealand.
Creator: Ashhurst Centennial Association
Place: Ashhurst
Date: 1974
Recipe Book. Front pages lost so no details of creator or publication. Each section is preceded with a list of recipes and the people who donated them. Some handwritten recipes are handwritten inside the front and back covers.
Also contains adver...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1913
A photographic series prepared by the Prime Minister’s Department in 1947 to attract British migrants. The Evans family of 5 Mansford Place, Palmerston North were selected to show the living conditions of a typical New Zealand family. Betty Evans,...
Creator: New Zealand Government
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1947
"Public Meeting. Vegetarian Cooking Demonstration. World Vegetarian Day October 1. A vegetarian cooking demonstation will be presented by Robyn Laing, a cookery turor of Queen Elizabeth College. Vegetarian cooking can be tasty, interesting and s...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1980s
A certificate awarded to Mrs Pallant for the scones she entered in the Art and Industrial Exhibition, opened by Hon. R Seddon, 7 September 1896. From the archive of 'Caroline Pallant'.
Creator: Art and Industrial Exhibition committee
Date: September 1896
These photographs depict a special celebration held around the Christmas / New Year period sometime during the 1980s. People came from all around the Central North Island to attend this celebration. The location is thought to be Waituna West, poss...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1980
Four unidentified men stand near a burn barrel.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: unknown