Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Charlotte Warburton (1883-1961) born in Palmerston North, was a notable community leader. In her memoir "Changing Days and Changing Ways", she wrote about her childhood...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 2, 2010

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.

Captions read:

“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Whakarongo
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Ministry of Works employees busy at work erecting a bailey bridge over the old bridge.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Whakarongo
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.

Captions read:

“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Whakarongo
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.

Captions read:

“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Whakarongo
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, near St...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Whakarongo
Date:          September 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.

Captions read:

“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Whakarongo
Date:          September 1960

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. On July 24 1988, the Mangaone and Kawau Streams flooded a large area in Palmerston North, triggering a civil defence emergency which was to last for four days. More than one t...

Creator:      Kaydee Zabelin
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 26, 2023

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 25th February 2020.  John Ward and others discuss the 1941 and 1953 Palmerston North floods. Hokowhitu School largely submerged. Guy Avenue flooding. WWII bomb shelter in the garden full of water. Blac...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 25, 2020

Broadcast on Access Manawatu on 29 May 2018, a group discussion of building styles and materials at various times in New Zealand. Topics include: ceiling heights, heating, ventilation, food safes, design errors, and threats (floods, earthquakes, l...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Date:          May 29, 2018

The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activites, and events. This month's issue includes: flood protection; flood relief; stormwater management; adventu...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North

Syd Shailer, son of A. J. Shailer indicating the height of the water in Shailer's dahlia nursey due to the flooding of the Hokowhitu Lagoon.

Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1953

Taken 21 June, 2015. Memorial Park, Terrace End. 

Creator:      Karen Spencer
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 21, 2015

Book of reminiscences written by Cathren Ishbel (nee Harrison) of her account of flooding in Hokowhitu in 1941. Includes photographs and news clippings.

Creator:      Cathren Ishbel
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          May 1941

The Awatapu Golf Course during a flood.

Creator:      Colin Rush
Place:          Awatapu, Palmerston North
Date:          1953

Flooding at an unidentified location in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Colin Rush
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1976

Harry Jackson and John James Craven operated their “High Class Grocer’s and Provision Merchants” business from 88 The Square in 1930. They are possibly the driver and passenger in the photograph.

Creator:      G F Framjee
Place:          Armstrong Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1926