A promotional postcard for a production of the play written by David Geary.

Creator:      Centrepoint Theatre
Date:          1993

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th May 2022. Part 2 of 2. Work on local writers. Elizabeth Smither. NZ writers as a group, the local scene. Alison’s view on NZ writers and of Britain. John’s view of his time in England. Wind turbines and p...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 24, 2022

This play was written by Briar Grace-Smith, and jointly directed by Toni Waho and Alison Quigan. The actress Grace Hoete (Ngāpuhi me Ngāti Kahungungu) is shown in the front row. The directors, Toni Waho (Ngāti Rangi, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi) is ...

Date:          1996

This photograph shows Alison Quigan and Carl Bland performing the roles of Genevieve and Barry in a production directed by Jeff Kingsford-Brown. The previous year, the world premier of Roger Hall's play Conjugal Rites had taken place at Centrepo...

Date:          1991

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 January, 1959. "Im so frightened. I don't know how I am going to do the part," confides Niki in 17-month-old Lynette Owen-Taylor at the Opera House yesterday. Niki ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 28, 1959

The cover of this booklet reads, "Sir J.M. Barrie's Immortal Peter Pan being the joint presentation by the Palmerston North Operatic Society (Inc.), the Manawatu Repertory Society (Inc.) [and] the Palmerston North Little Theatre Society (Inc.) in ...

Creator:      Simon Printing Co. Ltd.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1955

Image likely taken from the C. M. Ross Building, looking across The Square to Church Street.

This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy ...

Creator:      D. Evans
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s to 1970s

The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

The Municipal Opera House, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected for the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and w...

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939

The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...

Creator:      Alex M Crocket
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

This photograph shows the Bland Holt Company outside the Palmerston North Opera House. Discernible characters are the farmer, the policeman, the judge and the old maid.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          since 1905

The Palmeston North Operatic Society are shown here performing 'The Drinking Song' during rehearsals for their production of "The Student Prince", in the Palmerston North Opera House. This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard, 23 August...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 23, 1963

It is thought this photograph is of some of the chorus in the Palmerston North Operatic Society production of 'The Cingalee', performed at the Opera House November 1-5, 1921. 'Boobhamba' is a nobleman and one of the lead parts in this 1904 musical...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1921

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The career of Theatre Royal's business manager and first Opera House manager Harry Muller.

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 17, 2019

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 January, 1959. "A scene from "Ladies Night In a Turkish Bath," to be staged in the Palmerston North Opera House on January 27, 28 and 29."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 17, 1959

A scene from "Dear Octopus" by Dodie Smith. Directed by Linsay Buick-Constable, the play was performed by the Manawatū Repertory Society at the Palmerston North Opera House on July 19-22, 1952. The play marked the society's 21st birthday and was t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 19, 1952 to July 22, 1952

A scene from "Dear Octopus" by Dodie Smith. Directed by Linsay Buick-Constable, the play was performed by the Manawatū Repertory Society at the Palmerston North Opera House on July 19-22, 1952. The play marked the society's 21st birthday and was t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 19, 1952 to July 22, 1952

"The Precious Years", by Winton Davis and Leslie Verry, was written for the 60th Jubilee of the city of Palmerston North in November 1937. The play was presented at the Opera House and the script is held at the Palmerston North Public Library. The...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1937

This is the programme for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 12 May and 17 May 1947. The competition categories included elocution...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1947

This is the programme for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 8 and 13 May 1950. The competition categories included elocution (sp...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1950

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 April, 1959. "A life size model of a white horse was placed in position over the Opera House this morning. The model was brought to the city from Hastings by members...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          380 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 11, 1959

This is the programme for the Thirty-Second Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Repertory and All Saints' Halls between 9 and 14 May 1955. The competition categories included elocution (speech a...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1955

This is the programme for the Twenty-Eighth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 7 and 12 May 1951. The competition categories included speech and dra...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1951

This is the programme for the Thirty-Third Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Concert Chamber and All Saints' Hall between 7 and 12 May 1956. The competition categories included speech and dram...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1956

Born in Wales in 1886, 'Skipper' Walter William Francis travelled the world for a number of years talking about his feat of swimming the Bristol Channel in 1912, and screening the film of this and other sporting achievements. He was described as a...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1913

The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned as unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened an...

Creator:      L G West Son & Callendar (architects) for Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Corner of Ashley Street and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1953

The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned as unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened an...

Creator:      Colin Rush
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1986

The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...

Creator:      F A Tier
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1950