The old gasworks were located near the railways sheds. For a full account of the event, see Manawatu Standard, 5 August 1913, Page 5 in an article entitled "Explosion and Fire" (available online on www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz).
Creator: Unknown
Date: August 5, 1913
Ashhurst School opened in September 1879. During the 1940s the headmaster was Mr. R. Norm Finlay who held the position from c.1935-1954.
An inscription on the reverse provides the following names: Unknown; Max Davis; Harold He- [possibly Herion];...
Date: 1940s
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 July 1958, page 6: "Late on Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in the factory of Metalcraft Industries Ltd. At the corner of Church and Snelson Streets. The fire was...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Church and Snelson Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 14, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 June 1958, page : "G. Eastham, who is partly obscured by K. Wynkes, endeavours to pull the switchboard out to obtain a better view of the damaged area of the Pascal S...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 28, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 July 1958, page 6: "Late on Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in the factory of Metalcraft Industries Ltd. At the corner of Church and Snelson Streets. The fire was...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Church and Snelson Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 14, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 03 July 1961 "A local motorist has a fortunate escape from serious injury on Saturday night when the car he was driving rolled over. Only by throwing himself on to the f...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 3, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 February 1958, page 8: "Typical of the scene in nearly every yard in Tangimoana yesterday was this one of furniture and effects being dried out in the hot sun. The l...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Tangimoana
Date: February 27, 1958
Ashhurst School opened in September 1879, with Mr F. Whibley as the temporary head teacher. The first permanent head teacher was Mr Alfred Gower (c.1880-1887). The headmaster at the time of this photograph was Mr Hutton, who held the position from...
Date: 1924
Ashhurst School opened in September 1879, with Mr F. Whibley as the temporary head teacher. The first permanent head teacher was Mr Alfred Gower (c.1880-1887). In this photograph, Gower stands in front of the building. The woman mounted sidesaddle...
Date: circa 1881
Six pupils watch the demolition of the former Fitzherbert East School building, which was 78 years old. Aokautere School (formerly known as Fitzherbert East School) was established in 1889.
Place: 169 Fitzherbert East Road, Aokautere 4471
Date: 1965 to 1975
Sections of the Ashhurst Bridge were swept away in the Easter flood of 1895. Prior to the construction of the new bridge in 1909 a punt, as seen in the photograph, was used for crossing the river.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst Bridge, Ashhurst
Date: 1895
This image comes from a series of five prints showing various locations after a storm in May 1936. The reverse of the print reads, "Justice Edmund's paint shop, Rangitikei Street, about where Selwyn Motors' new premises are now [as in 1986]."
Creator: Henry Richards (?)
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 2, 1936
A punt operated from from 1871 to 1886 when the first wooden bridge across the river was built.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst Bridge, Ashhurst
Date: circa 1897
On the 3rd of February 1931, Napier experienced a disastrous earthquake, which resulted in damaging or destroying nearly every building in the city, with fires to follow. Shown here is damage to the Band Rotunda on the seafront.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Napier, Hawkes Bay
Date: February 1931