Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st November 2022. Part 2 of 2. Recollections of Compulsory Military Training. Badminton at Ohakea. Social activities. Barracks. Hearing a Wurlitzer organ in Auckland. Under 21, so no drinking (...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 1, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatu People’s Radio, 24th October 2023. Part 1 of 2. Career as a pharmacist. In Dagenham until 26 (1962). Young child in WWII. Memories of the blitz, DC3s towing gliders, Morrison shelter, Anderson shelter, V1s, V2s, rationing. Po...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Date: October 24, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People’s Radio, 31st October 2023. Flew to New Zealand, 1963. First few days in NZ. Sent to PN, first impressions. Settling in, basketball and surfing. Married, transferred to Wellington. Managing Boots in Dunedin, then in PN...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Date: October 31, 2023
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 4 School milk, health camps and 'Gunn's Gospel of Grub' / Margaret Tennant
p. 13 'This lovely home'. An account of 'Brabourne', 149 Monmouth Street, Feilding / Gerry Barton
p. 26 Stepping out of the ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2020
At this point in time The Square was divided into 5 areas - 4 quadrants and a strip running through the centre for the railway line. In the right foreground can be seen the extension of Rangitikei Street into The Square. The Bank of New Zealand is...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1918 to circa 1922
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 December 1958: "These candidates were successful in their pharmacy examinations. They are (from left to right): Messrs. E.C. Seville (passed final in pharmacy), B.A. ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 10, 1958
This series of images depicts the development of the site at the corner of The Square and Main Street (east) over the period of 17 June 1963 – 5 April 1965. During this time these existing buildings including the former Municipal Council Offices/T...
Creator: "Wally D' - W. R. Davies, Palmerston North
Place: Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: June 1963
A building under construction in 1935 for Leary’s Pharmacies Ltd, to replace the original building built by Richard Leary in 1885. Richard Leary established his business in 1875 and continued in business until his death in 1901. A J Graham, an emp...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1935
This postcard is addressed to the Blarambergs from A W Koehlev and dated 12/2/1914. The photograph must have been taken before this date because the Lakelet is missing - it was added in 1909 by the Beautifying Society. The three-storeyed building ...
Creator: Wilson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906 to circa 1907
A building under construction in 1935 for Leary’s Pharmacies Ltd, to replace the original building built by Richard Leary in 1885. Richard Leary established his business in 1875 and continued in business until his death in 1901. A J Graham, an emp...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1935