Ian Matheson 12/9/1969 notes: This photograph was taken from either the footbridge over the railway lines or the signal box alongside the lines and looks eastwards towards the Square. The railway station (with roofed platform) can be seen on the l...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
John Jarvie Gillies was an early taxi driver in Palmerston North. His wife, Elizabeth, operated a boarding house at 22 Andrew Young Street directly opposite Fearnley Private Hotel. Here he is shown with an unidentified group of people in front of ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1932
This circumstances of this photograph are unknown, but it shows a schooner rigged scow named 'Advance' at a jetty alongside what appears to be a steam train or traction engine. This may have been the boat built by Brown & Sons at Kaipara in 1903....
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 July 1958, page 9: "Boys and girls from the driving school received their licenses yesterday at a presentation ceremony. They were presented by Miss J.N. Wallace (the...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 11, 1958
This is a replica of a steam locomotive called "Palmerston" which served the Foxton-Palmerston North line. It was built in 1872 in Dunedin and shipped to Foxton. It is considered to be the first locomotive entirely made in the country (previous...
Creator: Benjamin Foster
Place: Corner of Main St and Avenue Rd, Foxton
Date: July 6, 2020
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 34.
Creator:
Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1910
The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activites, and events. This month's issue includes: Recycling; Sustainable City Strategy; Transportation; Ecosyst...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 2010
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Place: Unknown
Date: 1900 to 1932
A picnic party from Pohangina Valley near Palmerston North, waiting to leave for Foxton Beach on one of H I Christensen’s motor coaches.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pohangina
Date: 1910 to 1912
This school was opened on 18 June, 1928 with a roll of 19 pupils. Mr E Farrant was the teacher. The land on which the school was built was donated by Mr Hugh Akers. The original one room was added to in 1930, 1953 and 1961. The school is still in ...
Creator: V Claridge
Place: Opiki, Manawatu
Date: circa 1940
A ticket issued by the New Zealand Railways, for the last excursion train, which left the Main Street Railway Station and ran, via Roslyn and Longburn, back again, 1 June 1964. The trip was arranged by the Lions Club of Palmerston North to mark th...
Creator: New Zealand Railways
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: June 1, 1964
The Wellington Manawatu Railway Company Limited constructed the rail line between Wellington and Palmerston, opened in 1886, and ran it until they sold it to the Government in 1908.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890 to circa 1899
This photograph shows Joseph Bodnar on the loop line at Ashhurst Station, 1974 – 1986, during one of his daily track inspection trips between the Longburn and Pohangina Railway Bridges. Joseph and family lived in one of the Whakarongo Railway hous...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst
Date: circa 1985 to circa 1989
Christian Petersen was an early Mauriceville wood-carrier, and is shown here transporting timber for the new homes of the settlement.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Mauriceville, Wairarapa Region
Date: circa 1889
This steamer went ashore a few miles north of the mouth of the Rangitikei River in May 1913. It was refloated two months later.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Rangitikei River Mouth
Date: 1913
This photograph shows Mr William Hurst's Federal Knight Truck stuck on the bed of the Oroua River. Mr Hurst used to fit his truck with seats and canopy and taken groups to picnics and to Palmerston North for special occasions.
Creator: W Hurst
Place: Oroua River, near Rongotea
Date: 1926
Whitehead's was a bakery and confectionery shop. Mr Foster, seated on the cart, is delivering bread to houses in Main Street east
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street East, Palmerston North
Date: 1907
The car was photographed in Cook Street, Palmerston North, near the Ferguson Street corner. People identified as: Arthur Hopwood (driver), a well known Palmerston North businessman; James Hopwood (far right), his father; Arthur’s children Roy and...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Cook and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1910
This photograph shows two unidentified men transporting provisions by horseback, across the ford before "Black Ridge". Kahuterawa Valley is located near Palmerston North in the foot of the Tararua Ranges. One of the earliest European owners of the...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa Valley, Manawatu
Date: circa 1896
Douglas DC-3 ZK-APA aircraft [Puweto], thought to have been taken at Milson Airport, with the Royal Mail insignia panted near the cockpit.This aircraft served with the RNZAF as NZ3555 from 20 August 1945 and was re-registered as a civilian aircraf...
Creator: Elmar Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1947
The National Airways Corporation aeroplane ZK-APB ‘Popotea’, made by the Douglas Aircraft Co. (US), sits on the grass at what is thought to be Milson Airport. ZK-APB was the first NAC DC-3 to be properly fitted out as an airliner, rather than just...
Creator: Elmar Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1947
The Main Street Station served Palmerston North from 1890 - 1963. This photograph shows a train waiting at the station, while an engine shunts carriages nearby. to the left can be seen businesses on George Street and in the distance on the left is...
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1940
The Railway Station and yards in Main Street served Palmerston North from 1890 - 1963-64. After the Milson Deviation was built, to divert rail from the centre of the city, the Station and yards were built on Tremaine Avenue.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Crowds wait for a passenger train at the Main Street Railway Station. The Main Street Station served Palmerston North from 1890 - 1963, when it moved to Tremaine Avenue.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Walkley's Commercial Hotel can be seen on the left of the photograph. It stood on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square. The people are waiting on the train platform at the Railway Station. The Post Office and Telegraph stands next to th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1885 to circa 1889
The building with four chimneys and the smaller building to its right appear to have been added after 1885, based on photographs of this location taken earlier than that date.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1885 to circa 1889
A railway service between Wellington and Palmerston North began in 1886. The line ran through the Square until after the Milson Deviation was completed in 1959. In 1964 the last passenger train ran through the Square and the tracks were removed.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960