Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 27th May 2025. Part 1 of 2. Vicki Marie Buchanan, Mike Lawrence, Ann Weir, Dianne McConnell, Stuart Birks.   Anne’s grandfather was an Australasian welter weight boxing champion. She has his boxin...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 27, 2025

A suite of bedroom furniture, comprising of a chest of drawers, headboard with built in drawers and a dressing table. These have a dark veneer and are displayed against bare floorboards and light, wooden panelling. There are two sheepskin rugs on ...

Creator:      John Cleland
Date:          August 1972

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 June 1961 "Furniture, household fittings and personal effects are seen hurriedly placed out of the way of the fire in front of Mr. C.M.A. Kebbell's two-storey home ne...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 13, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 June 1961 "Now adorning the Palmerston North City Council chambers, this magnificent banquet table and the two formal chairs behind it were used by the Queen and the ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          June 28, 1961

Garners began in The Square, Palmerston North 7 February 1906 with a small drapery business. Three years later Miss M M Garner & Miss H M Garner went into business with her brother Henry they became “Garner and Garner'. In 1930 Keith Garner joi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1960

'The Wattles' was constructed in 1887 and was demolished in 1967. The hall of the house was situated on the ground floor just inside the front door. On the left can be seen the door to the drawing room, while in the center is a passage leading to ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of College and Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010)

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          104 Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

"Kaingahou" in Palmerston North was built for Ditlev Monrad after he retired from Karere in 1905. He died in 1908. The house was later owned by the Kendall family, Mr R A Swan, Mrs Helen Beckman and Bodil and Gunner Petersen. The 3500 square foot ...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          642 Pioneer Highway, Palmerston North
Date:          1984

The panelled, furnished, foyer of , what appears to be, a large house.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1901 to circa 1910

The house at 7 Heatley Avenue was built c1870s, and originally stood in Ihaka Street. In the 1970s it was owned by Mr and Mrs A F Fontein.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          7 Heatley Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          September 6, 1975

The house at 7 Heatley Avenue was built c1870s, and originally stood in Ihaka Street. In the 1970s it was owned by Mr and Mrs A F Fontein.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          7 Heatley Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          September 6, 1975

The Mayor's office on the first floor, in the new Civic Administration Building, had wood panelling, and chairs and curtains in cream and brown with brown carpet. The building was constructed over 1976-1979, and was occupied in January 1980.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 13, 1979

This two-storey shop was situated in Main Street east, between the The Square and Princess Street, and was run by Fitzsimons & Cowling, who went out of business during the depression years. The building was later occupied by Manawatu Furnishers, b...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1928

Shown here is the upstairs show room of Fitzsimons & Cowling situated in Main Street east, between The Square and Princess Street. Fitzsimons & Cowling went out of business during the depression years. Bill Cowing is in the background wearing a bl...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1928

This photograph shows the handiwork of students under Mr Stephenson. Some of the items pictured are ladders, a cabinet and sets of shelves. The photographer, Charles Wildbore, was a well known local, amateur photographer during the early years of ...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Pohangina, Manawatu
Date:          1910

Andrews and Sons Furnishings was founded by Mr Alfred Andrews on a half acre section in Rangitikei Street in 1902. In 1915 two sons, A J and F N Andrews, took over the factory and small shop at the front of the building. This photograph shows the ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          228 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929

'Atawhai', meaning 'warm welcome', was built for Edwin Keiller, a widower, as a healthy place to raise his children. It was designed by C.T. Natusch, the architect, and built by Arthur Bennett at the top of the bluff across the bridge from Palmers...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Massey College, Palmerston North
Date:          1950 to 1962

King and Teppett was established by Messrs F A King and C W Teppett in 1934, in the Majestic Buildings, previously known as Zealandia Hall. Garners bought the building in 1937, lowered the roof, remodelled the front portion and began trading as 'G...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1934 to 1937

The house at 7 Heatley Avenue was built c1870s, and originally stood in Ihaka Street. In the 1970s it was owned by Mr and Mrs A F Fontein.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          7 Heatley Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          September 6, 1975

The premises of F N Andrews Furnishers Ltd, 184 - 190 Rangitikei Street, were destroyed by fire at about 2am, 13 July 1977. One of the oldest family businesses in Palmerston North, F N Andrews Furnishers Ltd was started in 1902 by Alfred Andrews, ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          184-190 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 13, 1977

The newly completed Civic Centre, for the Palmerston North City Council, was completed in 1979, and staff moved in January 1980. Office space was designed to be open plan.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 13, 1979

The newly completed Administration Building, for the Palmerston North City Council, was completed in 1979, and staff moved in January 1980. Office space was designed to be open plan. This is the Councillor's room, complete with a green velour loun...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1979

The reception area of the Palmerston North Mayor's office, on the first floor of the new Civic Administration building. The building was constructed over 1976-1979, and was occupied in January 1980.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 13, 1979

The house at 7 Heatley Avenue was built c1870s, and originally stood in Ihaka Street. In the 1970s it was owned by Mr and Mrs A F Fontein.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          7 Heatley Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          September 6, 1975

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

A short history of the pioneer cottage, "Totaranui," now located at Te Manawa.

Creator:      Mina McKenzie for Manawatu Museum
Date:          1975

The newly completed Civic Centre, for the Palmerston North City Council, was completed in 1979, and staff moved in January 1980. Office space was designed to be open plan.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 13, 1979

This mounted print shows the results of the 1915 Wood Work class at the Palmerston North Technical School. It was taught by Mr Stephenson. This item is not held by the Ian Matheson City Archives. Situated on the corner of King and Duke Street, the...

Creator:      Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1915

The Cyclopaedia of Ne Zealand 1897, lists Thomas Westwood as the proprietor of the Red house Co-operative Sore and a member of the Foxton Borough Council. (Also see 2011P_Fo75_004925)

Creator:      R.O. Hornblow, Foxton
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1905 to circa 1906

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:          1968