Back row, from left: Alex 'Ween' Lancaster; Hugh Wallis; unidentified; Jens Petersen; unidentified; unidentified. Front row, from left: Etty Anderson (née Lancaster); Bella Boswell (née Bryant); Ethel Field (née Bryant); Emilie Cutler (née Christe...
Date: 1964
This plan of a two room dwelling, comprising of a livingroom and bedroom, was designed by L. G. West for the Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Planning for the Awapuni Old People's Home commenced in 1911 and the facility was open...
Creator: L G West
Date: 1912
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 April 1963, "Mr. and Mrs. J. J. B. Craven of Rangitane Street, Palmerston North, are celebrating their diamond wedding today. Mr. Craven, J.P., has taken an active pa...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Rangitane Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 13, 1963
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 June 1958, page 8: "Today the old folks of Palmerston North will receive bags of firewood donated by the Palmerston North combined Buffalo Lodges. Here are seen some ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 April 1963, "Mrs W. Peck, one of 15 Ashhurst pensioners who received a truckload of firewood from the Ashhurst Jaycees on Saturday, chats with Messrs P. Collison and...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ashhurst
Date: April 8, 1963
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 March 1958, page 5: "At the conference of the New Zealand Federated Old Folks' and Beneficiaries Association, which has just concluded in Wanganui, Mr. M. Rosanoski (...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Whanganui
Date: March 26, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 16 December 1958: "Members of the Sunshine Club song group which entertained at the Old Folks' concert held last night. They are, from left to right: Mesdames H.A. Spenc...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 16, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 August 1960 "Mrs. L. Anderson, of Christchurch, aged 93 years, and a great-great-grandmother, returned to her home in Palmerston North in the N.A.C. Viscount on Satur...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
An event, organised by the Palmerston North City Library, was held at Caccia Birch House to mark the International Day of the Older Person. It included a high tea and entertainment, and people were invited to write down, or dictate their memories....
Creator: Various
Date: circa 2015
Henry Aulin, JP, a storekeeper at Eketahuna, and Nils Anderson celebrate their Joint Silver weddings at Eketahuna on the 6 April 1879. Both married the Olhsen sisters in 1872. Henry married Janete and Nils married Maria.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Eketahuna, Tararua
Date: April 6, 1897
The class of 1888 – 1899 are shown here at their unidentified school reunion.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
This large unidentified sports group are thought to be from a bowling or croquet club.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
This geriatric rest home came under the control of the Palmerston North Hospital Board.
Creator: A S Pope
Place: 140 Maxwells Line, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
Mrs Harriet Coker was the wife of Mr Samuel Coker, a farmer at Ashhurst.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: unknown
Mrs Kennedy (nee Mellon) was married to John Kennedy. She came to New Zealand from Australia and lived on the West Coast. She knew Richard Seddon and it was a choice between him and Kennedy for a husband. She died at Te Awamutu c1920.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Mrs Mary Mowlem was wife to Fred Mowlem a commission and estate land agent, in partnership with James Linton in about 1892 and later with James Mowlem. In 1920, Fred was a JP and had retired from Mowlem & Mowlem.
Mary Mowlem was one of approxi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1900
The 50th Jubilee Celebration of the Mangamaire School was held conjointly with the official opening of the new school, on 21 June 1947. The old school hall, which had been vacated, was given a new lease of life in 1949 when it was re-erected in th...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: June 21, 1947
Alfred Allen (1855-1935, b. in Wellington) was a carpenter and farmer in the Wairarapa and came to Kelvin Grove as a farmer during 1880s. He later moved to Terrace Street (now Ruahine Street). He was later a builder in Palmerston North until his r...
Creator: Allen Family
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930
The Palmerston North Senior Citizen's Club located on Main Street.
Creator: Robyn Wilson
Place: 323 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 16, 2011
This portrait shows Mary Ann Oakley, an earlier settler to New Zealand. Born Mary Ann Lee in Cheshire, England, 1819, she married her first husband Edmund Perrin in 1838 and had five children. They came to New Zealand on the "Martha Ridgeway" in 1...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890
Because of the extreme lack of variety of Scandinavian surnames (there were two Olsens or Olsons in the original Mauriceville Settlement alone), it is difficult to establish exactly who this family were. They were probably pioneers in the Forty Mi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1930s
Kenneth Wilson was headmaster of Palmerston North High School, which opened in 1891 in Rangitikei Street. He also opened a private school in Wellington and was employed at Wellington College. Wilson died in 1913.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 263 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1891
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
The Rest Home opened 1914-1915 as an 'Old Men's Home', under the control of the Palmerston North Hospital Board. It soon became known as the Old People's Home, and then Awapuni Hospital. It closed as a hospital in December 1889, because of falling...
Creator: A S Pope
Place: 140 Maxwells Line, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The Neilsens were early Scandinavian settlers in the Seventy Mile Bush area of Wairarapa. The Nielsen home was the first pit sawn timber building to be constructed in the Mauriceville settlement.
Creator: Charles Mariboe
Place: Wairarapa
Date: circa 1900
Mrs Nielsen has the pointed bodice, two-piece dress, tight sleeves, absence of bustle and comparative simplicity of the dress of the late 1870s.
Creator: Charles Mariboe
Place: Wairarapa Region
Date: circa 1880
Lucy Ethel Wilby, nee Baker, stands behind her grandparents Thomas and Mary Parkins. Thomas Parkins was born in England in 1844; Mary Milson was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1840. They married in England on 18th of August 1865, their daughter ...
Creator: Bunting Studio
Date: circa 1900
Agnes married John Herbert Hankins 26 October, 1872 in Hokitika. They moved to Palmerston North in 1882, where John set up practice as a barrister and solicitor. They lived at Stoney Creek.
Agnes was one of approximately 523 Palmerston North wome...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: unknown
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 91
Creator: Unknown
Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: unknown