This is the home of the Prentice family in Boundary Road. The brickworks can be seen at the back of the cottage. All the bricks in All Saint's Church and many other local buildings were made here. Christian names from left to right: Albert Bernard...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
The Libertyland factory in Grey Street was opened in 1934 by Mr F.F. Young, NZ representative of R & W H Symington & Co Ltd., Wellington. Originally an English company with an ahead office in Market Harborough, it was first established in 1856. Mr...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Roy Street and Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1948
Paddockers are dismantling a stack of fibre in a drying paddock in Foxton. The hanks of dried fibre are being loaded into a dray for transport back to the flaxmill for scutching. Man standing left foreground by post, is Darcy Knewstub, others unid...
Creator: E A Phillips
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: 1912
This hand-drawn map of the Makerua Swamp (now Opiki District) shows the approximate location of the flax mills that once operated on the banks of the Manawatu River.
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Opiki, Manawatu
Date: 1978
Workers are shovelling (possibly) blood and bone into sacks, marked as 'Longburn'. Note the dog looking over one of the sacks.
Creator: Robert Wallis
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1920
John McCaw states that in 1902, Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000. This photo was probably taken during the record sale. The Feilding cl...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1902
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.
John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary ab...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1902
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.
John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary ab...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feiding
Date: 1902
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.
John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary ab...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: 1902
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.
John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary a...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1902
Bricks produced by the Hoffman Kiln were used to create the gate posts of Brick and Pipes Co Ltd of Palmerston North. Specific bricks feature New Zealand Māori motifs. Bricks such as these were produced during the 1930s-1950s for special orders.
Creator: Graeme Liggins
Place: 615 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 2002
This photograph appears to be of the brick kilns in Featherston Street. These brick kilns were owned by R D Edwards between c 1902 and 1919, before being sold to Brick and Pipes Ltd who built a Hoffman brick kiln on this site.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
The building under construction in Botanical Road was a new warehouse for Glaxo Laboratories, to be used for bulk storage. The Glaxo company was established in 1873 when J C Nathan started a small milk powder plant at Bunnythorpe, trading under th...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Botanical Road and Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 1980
This Palmerston North Hoffman Kiln belonged to Brick and Pipes Ltd. Not used since 1959 it has a protection order on it and was donated to a Trust in 2003. It is one of the few left in New Zealand and thought to be the only one still in the Nort...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 615 Featherston Street, Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date: March 7, 1981
NZ Motor Bodies signed an agreement with Crompton Electricars [UK] allowing them to produce this vehicle design under licence. Shown here is a prototype of the light commercial vehicle the company hoped to produce in 1982. NZ Motor Bodies was es...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Keith Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 14, 1981
W H Foot's sawmill at the top of Forest Hill Road, Fitzherbert East, was probably the last mill operating on the northern Tararuas. It was erected in 1920 and operated until about 1927. The mill was situated on what is now Mr Don Scott's property....
Creator: Unknown
Place: Forest Hill Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1920
This factory stood on Section 37 on the western corner of Main Street East and Victoria Avenue. The Union Factory was on this site from about 1910 until about 1917. Mr A E Bennett was the manager of the company and Mr A N Gibbons was secretary. Th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1912
Shearers at work on A S Aldrich’s farm “Matsubara”, Bunnythorpe, north of Palmerston North. The “Matsubara” homestead of Mr G H Aldrich was located two miles out of Bunnythorpe, on the Bunnythorpe – Ashhurst road. The homestead was built about 188...
Creator: A S Aldrich
Place: Bunnythorpe
Date: circa 1904
This mill was situated on the south side of Rowe's Line (now known as Rowe Road) about one mile east from the Foxton-Sanson Highway. The mill was started about the year 1874 by Mr Charles Nicholas Rowe, who had previously been flaxmilling on the R...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rowe Road, Rongotea
Date: circa 1893
This Hoffman oblong continuous kiln in Palmerston North has not been used since 1959. It is one of the few left in New Zealand and thought to be the only one still in the North Island. It is listed in category 1 under the Historic Places Act 1993....
Creator: E Creamer
Place: Featherston Street, Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The Manawatu River in flood, 1953, attained a peak level of 21 feet, 3 inches. This photograph of the Gas works, Main Street, was taken at 10.45 am on 28 January 1953.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
Miranui Flaxmill was owned by A & L Seifert Flaxmilling Company Ltd and opened in 1907. The first four buildings are bunk houses and dining room, with the stripping sheds behind. At its height in 1926 the mill employed about 300 men.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Shannon, Horowhenua Region
Date: 1907
The flaxmill is thought to be in Foxton.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Foxton, Manawatu
Date: circa 1902
This abattoir owned by Feilding Borough Council was built in 1903 by W. Wilkinson at a cost of £1,185. The managers residence cost £435/10/- to construct.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: circa 1903
Foot's mill was the last sawmill to cut timber on the northern Tararuas. It was situated on the top of Forest Hill Road, Fitzherbert East and operated from 1920-1927. The people in this photograph are Mr W H Foot (left), Mrs Foot (right) and their...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Forest Hill Road, Fitzherbert East, Palmerston North
Date: 1924
Canvas kit bags being manufactured for the Defence Department at Chas. Dahl's factory during the First World War. The man on the right is the factory foreman, Percival A Milverton.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, between The Square and Princess Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1914
An unidentified piece of machinery and tap crafted by Berry Engineering.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
This is thought to be a Churchill-Redman built lathe that was sold from the 1940s to the 1960s. The machine reads, "The Churchill Machine Tool Co. Ltd Manchester England".
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 35.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Forest Hill Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
The Glaxo warehouse was built at a cost of $1.25 million, to store milk powder. The 27,500 cubic metre building was construced of structural steel, cement block and iron cladding and was lined with particle board. Brian Elwood, Palmerston North's ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Botanical Road, Palmerston North
Date: April 23, 1980