The Lower Turitea Dam was originally completed in 1907 but was raised to 50 feet in 1912. It was officially opened February 17, 1913. This enlarged dam remained in use until 1957 when a 100 ft high dam was constructed. The spillway is on the left.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Turitea, Palmerston North
Date: 1913
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 20th December 2022. Part 2 of 2. Studying welding. Father set up a welding business in Rongotea. Cattle stops from railway tracks. Eventful trips to Wellington. Welding jobs. Wheeler Engineering...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 20, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th September 2022. 2 of 3. Friars Grammar School in Wales. School structure in Britain. Woodwork, recently carved furniture. The 11+ exam in Britain, grammar schools and secondary modern...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Ashhurst
Date: September 13, 2022
A drawing by J T Stewart who was the District Engineer of the Public Works Department. Sketch shows the construction of the Upper Gorge Bridge (at Woodville end) over the Manawatu River. Entitled "Road Bridge Manawatu Gorge building 1874" and sign...
Creator: J T Stewart
Place: Manawatu/Wairarapa
Date: 1874
Mr John Tiffen Stewart (1827-1913) was a surveyor and one of the earliest Europeans to see the 'Papaioea' clearing, on which Palmerston North was established, c 1858. Locally, he surveyed the Te Ahu Turanga Block (purchased from Rangitāne).
He w...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1896
J T Stewart (1827-1913) was a surveyor and one of the earliest Europeans to see the 'Papaioea' clearing, on which Palmerston North was established, c 1858. Locally, he surveyed the Te Ahu Turanga Block (purchased from Rangitāne) and the route for ...
Creator: F L Denton, Wanganui
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 18, 1907
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 23rd June 2020. Tom Romley, Part 4 of 5. Working on the Upper Yarra Dam, living in a camp. Sleeping bags, dead snake inside. Shift work. 2 “lives” and you were out. How got to Australia. Workers from ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Ashhurst
Date: June 23, 2020
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. This bridge could be a different angle of the Fernhill Bridge over the Ngaruroro River in Hawkes Bay.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1940s
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. This bridge could be a different angle of the Fernhill Bridge over the Ngaruroro River in Hawkes Bay.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1940s
Filtermaster manufactured and supplied swimming pool equipment.This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: August 1968
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: September 1969
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 1969
This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 February 1973 with the caption, "It looked like a case of "if Mohammed wouldn't go to the mountain, the mountain ad to go to Mohammed" when St John's Presbyterian Church, Palmerston North,...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Brentwood Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: February 1973
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 February 1973 with the caption, "It looked like a case of "if Mohammed wouldn't go to the mountain, the mountain ad to go to Mohammed" when St John's Presbyteria...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Waldegrave and Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1973
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 February 1973 with the caption, "It looked like a case of "if Mohammed wouldn't go to the mountain, the mountain ad to go to Mohammed" when St John's Presbyteria...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 1973
This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 February 1973 with the caption, "It looked like a case of "if Mohammed wouldn't go to the mountain, the mountain ad to go to Mohammed" when St John's Presbyterian Church, Palmerston North,...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1973
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 February 1973 with the caption, "It looked like a case of "if Mohammed wouldn't go to the mountain, the mountain ad to go to Mohammed" when St John's Presbyteria...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Brentwood Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: February 1973
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 July 1961 "These two 9000-gallon stainless steel tanks constructed by a city engineering firm left Palmerston North on a long road haul to Opotiki, 80 miles beyond Gi...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 8, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 May 1961 "A further honour has fallen to Flying Officer John Lockhart Mills, R.N.Z.A.F., in his graduation as a Master of Engineering, with distinction, at Canterbur...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ohakea
Date: May 23, 1961
This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 February 1973 with the caption, "It looked like a case of "if Mohammed wouldn't go to the mountain, the mountain ad to go to Mohammed" when St John's Presbyterian Church, Palmerston North,...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Waldegrave and Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1973
Joe Hollander has over 40 years experience in building and construction, engineering, design, planning and development, operations, logistics and deployment management and governance, management and mentoring in New Zealand and overseas, within th...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 7, 2021
This piece of equipment appears to be a portable well digger. Richardson Drilling Co Ltd was founded in 1925 by Thomas Harold Richardson, as a water well contractor. The business was originally located at 37 Ferguson Street, which was renumbered o...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: unknown
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Unidentified bridge.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1940s
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Unidentified bridge.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1940s
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Ron Grammer is on top of a Bulls Bridge pile.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1940s
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s Oroua Bridge, Kopane.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1940s
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammers working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Whirokino Bridge near completion, 1944.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1944
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Waitaki hydro 1950's.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1950s
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Oroua Bridge, Kopane.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1940s
One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Here Charlie Rope is climbing a tower to join Ron Grammer.
Creator: Grammer family
Date: 1940s