Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 11th June 2024. Part 1 of 4. Born in Hamilton and lived in Claudelands until about eight years old. Developed an interest in drama. Father was in the Anglican ministry and family shifted to Auckland. Faith ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Turitea Valley
Date: June 11, 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People’s Radio, 17th October 2023. Always lived in Palmerston North. Started school about 1950. Catholic school. Playing behind the YMCA in Grey Street. Family bought State house in Ascott St. Building standards then and now....
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: October 17, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th November 2023, Part 1 of 5. Part 1 of 5. Early years in Wanganui. Father a jockey. School life, sports. Chart on achieving in life. In race commentators’ box. To Christchurch Teachers’ College, th...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Ashhurst
Date: November 7, 2023
A class from Monrad Intermediate visits Te Pātikitiki Library on a cloudy day
Bushes and trees had been recently planted on their left.
Place: Te Pātikitiki Library
Date: 2012
Pictured is the demolition of the gymnasium and playing courts at the former Massey Hokowhitu Campus / Teachers College. They are being replaced by a housing subdivision.
The gym was noted to be state of the art during its ti...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: Hokowhitu
Date: March 2021
Pictured is the campus' auditorium building (left) and the Tower Block (right) with the campus' courtyard in front of it.
These buildings will be torn down and replaced by a housing development before 2030.
~ Timeline of the...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: 40°22'12.4"S 175°37'51.7"E
Date: December 2021
Pictured is the campus' auditorium building (left) and the KA North Lecture Theatre building (right) which form the entrance to the campus' courtyard area. They are unique examples of modernist brutalism in the city; note the different concrete...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: 40°22'14.3"S 175°37'51.1"E
Date: December 2021
Pictured is the demolition of Kura Awa / Manukura School (foreground) and the gymnasium (background) at the former Massey Hokowhitu Campus / Teachers College. They are being replaced by a housing subdivision.
The gym was noted to b...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: Hokowhitu
Date: March 2021
Pictured is the Ruahine building at the former Hokowhitu Campus. Note the mural on the wall next to the entrance. A closer photo of this can be found on this website.
The building will be torn down and replaced by a housing develop...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: 40°22'13.0"S 175°37'51.1"E
Date: December 2021
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 12th November 2019. Part 2 of 3. Moving into a state house. Father getting rehabilitation of wounded soldiers, then office work. Brian and brother getting odd jobs while at school (9 years old)....
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Feilding
Date: November 12, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th December 2022. Part 1 of 2. Born in Palmerston North. Family farmed in Glen Oroua. Walked to school, 1945, no shoes. Conflict with lady teachers. The strap. Desks, inkwells. Biked to Rongot...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 13, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 30 July, 2019. Kevin Burrows and Rod Watt, Part 1 of 2.
Time at school together from 1948. Polio epidemic. Discipline, mischief. Palmerston North Technical College. Burning the teacher’s cane. Palmerston Nort...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 30, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 30 April, 2019. Tom Stoneley, part 2 of 2. With Gwen Stoneley. Gwen left school in 1950. Office work. Tom had identical twin brother. Little social life. Worked long hours. Ewe fairs. Holding paddocks. Size of ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 30, 2019
Broadcast on Access manawatu, 12 June 2018.
Abbeyfield residents Beryl Ludlam, Bev Marsh, Elaine Morse and Peggy Pedersen describe their experiences. Topics include: School in the war years, air raid practice and shelters, power blackouts, fear ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: June 12, 2018
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third or fourth quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third or fourth quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third or fourth quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third or fourth quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third or fourth quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third or fourth quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.
Caption: “Class 28 and 29 of the School Drivers Course after being presented with their drivers’ licences. The course, which began as an experiment ...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The teaching and learning of te reo and te ao Māori in schools from late 19th century to early 20th century.
Creator: Dorothy Pilkington
Place: Manawatū
Date: June 23, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th August 2019. Derm Buchanan part 1 of 4. Grew up in Feilding. Impact of WWII. Rode a horse to school. The Boarding at Wellington College, many rules about behaviour. The cane. Big attendance at reunions. T...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: August 13, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30 October 2018. Margaret Beere. Summary: 1951 to State House in Ross Block (now Roslyn), could buy. “Ross Block kids”. Primary schools, zoning. Then Intermediate, long way to go. Get meat from butcher first t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: October 30, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 17th September 2019. Keith Clark, part 1 of 4. Born Nelson 1928, early pioneer family. Tricycle to shop for sweets, whitebaiting. Spearing flounder. First day at school. Aratika dairy factory. 2 mile walk to s...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 17, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 11 September 2018.
Barry Slade, Part 1 of 2. Summary: Childhood in Palmerston North, 1930s, 1940s. Tricycle to school. Nuns, school dentist, lunches. Wartime. Using a slate, inkwells. Subjects taken. School un...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 11, 2018
The Fitzherbert East School, near Palmerston North, was built in 1889 by Messrs Perrin, Oakley and Meyrick, and opened to the first pupils March 19th 1889. The school as first built comprised of a single classroom and porch. The photograph shows c...
Creator: Attwood and Co.
Place: 169 Fitzherbert East Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890 to circa 1899
[Photograph of a range of floral compositions on display at (possibly Tokomaru) School. Parents and children are admiring the presentation]
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 21, 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 December 1962, "With school over for a few weeks, these children found much enjoyment with this old wreck at the Takaro kindergarten in Botanical Road. From the left...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Takaro, Palmerston North
Date: December 26, 1962
[9 ex-pupils, first day attendees of Hiwinui School are being photographed at the 70th year jubilee, outside the school hall]
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Watershed Road, Hiwinui
Date: May 1961