A presentation by Virginia Warbrick, revealing many of the meanings behind the street names of Awapuni and West End. This talk was delivered as part of Heritage Month, in March 2025. 

The talk was delivered at Boho Cafe, at an event...

Creator:      Virginia Warbrick
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 20, 2025

Contents:

p. 3 Editorial: Cushla Scrivens

p. 5 Flea-houses and picture palaces: cinema life before the Downtown multiplex / Pauline Knuckey

p. 14 Motorists: look before you peep: the fall and rise of Feilding's town clock / Simon Johnson

p. 22...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2014

Palmerston North Plunket rooms 1994. There were several Plunket Society sub-branches located throughout the city. The West End-Awapuni rooms premises address was 18 Newbury Street, Awapuni.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1994

Newly built townhouses at 63 Church Street, West End.

Creator:      Colin Rush
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1980s

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 December 1962, "The assistant-coach of the Hutt Valley women's softball team (Miss Lorraine Chiles, centre) gives her team a last-minute talk before the start of thei...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Park Road, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1962

Photo taken by Terry Finnerty, photographer. The Municipal Chambers building is on the far left, next to All Saints' Church on Church Street.

Opposite the church is the Grand Hotel. Coles Henry & Co, a music and radio shop is on the next corner, ...

Creator:      Terry Finnerty
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1958

Frederick Johansen using a shovel to clear his section on the corner of Botanical Road and Church Street, Palmerston North.

Creator:      T F Krarup
Place:          Corner of Botanical Road and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1897

Mr. Samuel Watkin Luxford (1856 – 1925) established a pedigree herd of Ayrshire cattle on his farm at Awapuni. Mr. Luxford was a well know cattle breeder in Manawatu and was a President of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He sold the A...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1903

This twenty-roomed house was the home of two Mayors of Palmerston North and its attractive gardens were one of the showpieces of the borough for many years. The building stood on Section 972 (the western corner of Linton and College Streets), with...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          College Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

Craven School boarders out for a day's fun enjoying themselves at "Waitangi", the home of the Hewett Family. The girls are shown here playing a "blindfold smelling game".

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          circa 1910