Contents:

p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens

p. 5 Peanuts or beef? A walking challenge / Dorothy Pilkington

p. 11 Manawatū's First World War camps, 1914-1919 / Tim Shoebridge

p. 22 Heirs of Rochdale: the Manawatū Co-operative Society and its fou...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2013

This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          The Gorge, Manawatū
Date:          June 1960

This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          The Gorge, Manawatū
Date:          June 1960

Early bridge engineering for Te Ahu a Turanga Manawatū Tararua Highway. The new route will link the Manawatū and Tararua regions after the perminant closure of the Gorge road in 2017. Image taken from the new Gore Walk carpark.

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 2021

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

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

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

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 'Upper' Gorge bridge, near Woodville, was completed in 1875, replacing the ford that had allowed access to the Manawatu Gorge road constructed in 1872. It, in turn, was replaced by a two-way bridge in 1931.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tararua District
Date:          1878

Looking across the Manawatu River from the road to the railway line and tunnel that runs through the Manawatu Gorge. The railway line was opened in 1891 linking Palmerston North to Napier.

Creator:      JV
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1895

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:          1880s

The Manawatu Gorge road opened in 1872, and in 1875 the Government established a tollhouse at the Woodville end (as seen at the end of bridge) when the bridge was built, around which a small settlement grew. The bridge measured 428 feet in length,...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          State Highway 3, Woodville
Date:          1886