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Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography b...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: 1955
This aerial is believed to be set in Palmerston North. Can you identify the location? Please use the comments tab to let us know so we can update the information attached to this record.
Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography b...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: 1955
The inscription states, “This stone was erected to commemorate the widening of this road. Work was commenced in April 1921, and completed April 1926”. The official ceremony was performed by the Prime Minister, Right Honourable J.C. Coates, P.C. T...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1926
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 July 1958, page 6: "This large slip which occurred in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday is likely to hold up regular rail traffic from the East Coast until tomorrow."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Manawatū Gorge
Date: July 21, 1958
This hand-tinted postcard shows the Manawatū Gorge around 1900.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1900
The Upper Manawatu Bridge taken at the Woodville end of the Manawatu Gorge Walk. Taken on 15 July 2017 while the Gorge Road was closed due to a large slip and 1 day after a large southern storm had passed over the country. Gorge Road has now been ...
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Manawatu Gorge
Date: July 15, 2017
The Ballance River bridge at the eastern end of the Manawatu Gorge was designed by James Fulton and opened by the Premier, Richard John Seddon in 1904. The bridge was built using a double intersection Pratt truss with a small version at the south ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: State Highway 3, Woodville
Date: circa 1909
The Gorge road opened in 1872, and in 1875 the Government established a tollhouse at the Woodville end to defray the cost of maintaining the road. In 1912 tolls were abolished, the tollhouse was demolished and the small settlement which grew up ar...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Gorge, Tararua District
Date: 1880s
On either side of the Manawatu River in the Gorge run the road line on the right, built in 1871-1872 at a cost of £5000, and the railway lineon the left, opened in 1891.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1900
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
What remains of the derailed train on the tracks, above the flooded Manawatu River. Engine driver Basil Craighead and Fireman R Hoskins drowned when their 140-tonne goods train was derailed by a slip and fell into the flooded Manawatu River in the...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: State Highway 3, Palmerston North
Date: August 24, 1946
The Upper Manawatu Gorge Bridge, built during 1874 – 1875, leads out of the Gorge towards Woodville. By 1930 – 1932 it had been replaced by a concrete structure.
Creator: Unknown
Place: State Highway 3, Woodville
Date: circa 1910
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
A road through the Manawatu Gorge was constructed 1871-1872, opening up Manawatu to Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay, and the Upper Gorge bridge replaced the ford in the Manawatu River in 1875. The bridge measured 428 feet in length, and the main span wa...
Creator: Unknown
Place: State Highway 3, Woodville
Date: 1890s
A road throught the Gorge was constructed 1871-1872 linking Manawatu with Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay. Telegraph lines, as seen, were installed through the Manawatu Gorge in 1879 – 1880.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890
This postcard is thought to be a view of the Manawatu Gorge. The Manawatu Gorge (in Maori Te Apiti, meaning 'The Narrow Passage') runs between the Ruahine and Tararua Ranges of the North Island of New Zealand, linking the Manawatu and Hawke's Bay ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
The road through the Manawatu Gorge, linking Manawatu with Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay, was constructed in 1871-1872, and the railway line opened in 1891. This photograph, at the Woodville end of the Gorge, was taken prior to the construction of the ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tararua District
Date: circa 1895
On either side of the Manawatu River running through the Gorge, can be seen the railway line on the right, opened in 1891 and the road on the left, built 1871-1872.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1900
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: State Highway 3
Date: 1920
These Lime works are located at the Woodville end of the Manawatu Gorge.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tararua District
Date: 1960
A road through the Gorge, linking Manawatu with Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay, was constructed 1871-1872. This photograph, taken, from the east, was taken before the construction of the railway on the opposite bank in 1891.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890