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Memory Lane - Pages of past revealed

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. When Darren Trask started renovating his country cottage, he found historic newspapers dated 1887 in the wall linings. The cottage, address 1033B Napier Road, is class...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 11, 2010

Cuba Street, Early Residents

Name: Cuba

Suburb, Palmerston North Central


The image is a derivative of this NZ Cadastral Map - Town Series: Palmerston North Map ...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date:          2025

Back Issues: What was making the news 50 years ago today?

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Fifty years ago newspapers were going through a period of change. They were facing competition from television and radio news, technological change and shifts in ownership. Th...

Creator:      Margaret Tennant
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 18, 2024

Back Issues: Out with typewriters, into the computer age

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of the Manawatū Standard, also known as the Manawatū Evening Standard for many years. Founded by Alexander McMinn in 1880, it started as a one page morning paper. ...

Creator:      Tracey Armstrong
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          December 9, 2023

Pushing out a linotype, big steps since 1903

Machine operators at work in the new typesetting ‘bay’. Donald Leslie Driver is standing (right). This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27th January 1967. On June 30, 1903, when Messrs. H.N....

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 27, 1967

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