Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th November 2021. Part 1 of 2. Kevin joined PEC in Marton in 1967 after time working on transistors at DSIR. Company wanted to introduce some high technology. Moved to Marton in 1973. Electric fencing. Innov...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Linton
Date:          November 30, 2021

This plan for a two-storey, brick building combining two shops, domestic quarters and outbuildings was designed by L. G. West. The premises, built for F. G. Hilton, were the first brick shops constuctred in Marton. The Wanganui Chronicle reporte...

Creator:      L G West
Date:          1902

These plans for extensive additions to house was designed by L. G. West for Messrs Gaisford Brothers. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he for...

Creator:      L G West
Date:          1912

This plan for a single-storey house with front and back verandahs was designed by L. G. West for Messrs Gaisford Brothers. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about ...

Creator:      L G West
Date:          1912

These plans for a two-storey, eight-bedroom house, cistern and windmill were designed by L. G. West for S. Gibbons. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. ...

Creator:      L G West
Date:          1901

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 February, 1964. "Lady Fergusson, the Chief Guide, yesterday spoke to a large gathering of Girl Guides and members of the association who attended the Dominion confere...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [The Marton Hotel and surrounding streets with cars and a tree on a very rainy day.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Marton
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [A building in Marton, with a woman crossing the street on a very rainy day.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Marton
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken as part a feature that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on January 17 1987 about the work of Māori Wardens in Marton. According to the story that accompanied the photographs, Māori Wardens were instituted in 1937 and by 19...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Marton
Date:          January 1987

This image was taken as part a feature that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on January 17 1987 about the work of Māori Wardens in Marton. According to the story that accompanied the photographs, Māori Wardens were instituted in 1937 and by 19...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Marton, Manawatu
Date:          January 1987

This image accompanied a feature ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on January 17 1987 about the work of Māori Wardens in Marton. According to the story that accompanied the photographs, Māori Wardens were instituted in 1937 and by 1987 there we...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Marton
Date:          January 1987

Creator:      Ewan and Shirley Drake
Place:          457 Wellington Road, Marton
Date:          October 10, 1965

James Chapman-Taylor designed this house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design with the International Correspondence Schools of the United States.

He built Woodleigh a...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019

Irises in the garden of 'Woodleigh'.

James Chapman-Taylor designed the house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design with the International Correspondence Schools of the...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019

James Chapman-Taylor designed this house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design with the International Correspondence Schools of the United States.

He built Woodleigh a...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019

Part of the gardens at 'Woodleigh'. James Chapman-Taylor designed this house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design with the International Correspondence Schools of the ...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019

James Chapman-Taylor designed this house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design with the International Correspondence Schools of the United States.

He built Woodleigh a...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019

Mrs Wrigley possibly lived at Sanson. Her daughter married Sir John McKenzie, of McKenzies Department Stores.

Creator:      H Billens and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

This map details the major driving routes in and around the Manawatu District as in the 1970s. The reverse gives a potted history of Palmerston North and lists some of of the regions most popular features, including parks, beaches and other amenit...

Creator:      Automobile Association
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1976

Brick wall in the garden of 'Woodleigh'. It was made of bricks from a demolished chimney. James Chapman-Taylor designed this house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019

Garden house in the garden of 'Woodleigh'.

James Chapman-Taylor designed the house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design with the International Correspondence Schools ...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019

James Chapman-Taylor designed this house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design with the International Correspondence Schools of the United States.

He built Woodleigh a...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019

James Chapman-Taylor designed this house, in Tutaenui Road, Marton, in 1910. Chapman-Taylor started off as a builder and then studied architecture and design with the International Correspondence Schools of the United States.

He built Woodleigh a...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Tutaenui Road, Marton
Date:          November 2019