Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st December 2021. part 2 of 2.  About 2002, proposed use of Longburn land for industry. Conflict between urban and rural, “reverse sensitivity”. 2007 Flygers Line mega-mall proposal. The One Plan (Ma...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Mount Stewart
Date:          December 21, 2021

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The life story of Danish immigrant Olga Monrad, née Berg (1843-1884). The Monrad family were early settlers in Karere, near Longburn.

Creator:      Lesley Courtney
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          January 18, 2025

The official opening by Mr Moohan, Minister of Railways, at the Longburn end of the deviation, just outside Palmerston North. To his right is Mr W B Tennent, Mayor, and Mr W Nash, Prime Minister.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn, Palmerston North
Date:          1959

This map has been created by collaging together cadastral maps of various boroughs and counties in the vicinity of Palmerston North, including the areas around Shannon, Foxton and Tokomaru.

Date:          1957

This plan for a general store, three bedroom dwelling and washhouse was designed by L. G. West & Son for G. A. Tapper. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1914

This plan for a milking shed and dwelling was designed by L. G. West & Son for Joseph Liggins. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he formed a p...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1914

These plans for a four-bedroom residence and small cottage was designed by L. G. West & Son for Martin Olsen. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 191...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1914

This architectural plan was produced by L. G. West in 1889. It depicts the two-storey Junction Hotel that was designed for Thomas Fraser of Longburn. This featured a bar and dining room on the ground floor and accommodation on the upper level. T...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1889

This plan for a two-storey hotel was designed by L. G. West for the Trustees of the late John Walkley. The hotel featured four bedrooms on its ground floor and a further seven bedrooms on its upper level. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg ...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          circa 1896

Wellington Manawatu Railway. Enlarged from tracing signed H P Higginson, by Alex Dundas, Auth. Surveyor. Shows the position of buildings, railway lines, road lines and land to be purchased by Company and Government. Also shows where properties ...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Longburn
Date:          1891

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of the Longburn Railway Line 1871-1959. Since 2016, the Bainesse and Districts Community Development Trust has been working to establish the Foxton-Longburn Railway ...

Creator:      The Bainesse and Districts Community Development Trust
Place:          Horowhenua/Manawatū
Date:          July 15, 2023

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 November 1958: "Mr. W.J. Coulter, the senior inspector at the Longburn freezing works, is seen watching a member of the staff skin one of the show lambs prior to the ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Works Road, Longburn, Palmerston North
Date:          November 12, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 June, 1963. "Mr. P. Davies operates the automatic stainless steel flagon washer."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          3 Carey Street, Longburn
Date:          June 14, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 June, 1963. "Miss Judith Carey, formerly of Foster's Hotel, Wanganui, is now manageress of the White Horse Inn Hotel."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          3 Carey Street, Longburn
Date:          June 14, 1963

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, however other images were published for a story that ran on 14 June, 1963. "Staff serve patrons at the newly opened White Horse Inn." See 2017N_2017-20_017716, 2017N_2017-20_017712

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          June 14, 1963

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, however other images were published for a story that ran on 14 June, 1963. "Staff wait to serve patrons at the newly opened White Horse Inn." See 2017N_2017-20_017716, 2017N_2017-20_01...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          3 Carey Street, Longburn
Date:          June 14, 1963

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 20 January, 1964. [Three women sit on a bench at the David Rowland family centenary event in Longburn.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          January 20, 1964

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 20 January, 1964. [Mr David Rowland, of Worchestershire, England, arrived in New Zealand as an 1864 poineer. At the weekend, his descendants, 115 of them, were photographed as...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          January 20, 1964

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 January, 1964. "The oldest and second-youngest in the Rowland family which celebrated its centenary in New Zealand at the weekend meet here. He Mr Timothy Rowland, la...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          January 20, 1964

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 20 January, 1964. [Mr David Rowland, of Worchestershire, England, arrived in New Zealand as an 1864 pioneer. At the weekend, his descendants, 115 of them, were photographed as...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          January 20, 1964

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 January, 1964. "Off into the unknown--at least in their imaginations--are these young people, all members of the Rowland family. This historic canoe--among several ar...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          January 20, 1964

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 August, 1959. "Aerial view of Longburn."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 18, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 May, 1963. "Members of the newly-formed draughts club at pictured at their clubrooms on their opening night. Cups and other trophies have been donated to the club for ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          May 2, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 25 June 1958, page 8: "The days of the life of the wooden structure in this photograph are numbered. The bridge is that used by railway traffic and is situated south of ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          June 25, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 July, 1959. "Visitors from the sheep farmers' conference were shown the processing and preparation of chiller beef for sale on North American markets at the Co-operati...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          July 2, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 May, 1963. "Look what my father grew." That is what two-year-old Stuart Pinker, of Longburn, could well be saying. He is holding a 3lb 2oz kumera grown by his father."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          May 1, 1963

A group photograph at the Seventh Day Adventist Oroua Missionary School in Longburn.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940s

This plan for a two-storey building, featuring a shop and two bedrooms on the ground floor and eight further bedrooms on the upper level, was designed by L. G. West for G. Richardson. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) estab...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1903

A souvenir programme for the opening ceremony of the New Longburn Railway Bridge and Deviation. Constructed between 1958 and 1960, the new steel and reinforced-concrete bridge replaced an earlier wooden rail bridge over the Manawatū which dated fr...

Creator:      New Zealand Railways

Date:          October 18, 1960

An advertisement for the auction of E.J Riddiford's estate in Longburn. Riddiford's 1645 acres were to be sub-divided into 44 properties.

Creator:      Abraham & Williams
Place:          Longburn
Date:          circa 1913