The Woodville Post Office was completed in 1904 and demolished in 1982. It was damaged in the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake and the brickwork from the top storey was removed at that time. The postmaster originally lived in the top storey of the buil...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard

Date:          July 29, 1981

In June 1980 the Government rejected plans to turn the Woodville Maternity Annexe into a hostel for children with intellectual disabilities. The hostel accomodation would have allowed the children to have six hour schooling a day instead of three ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard

Date:          June 4, 1980

This shows Woodville's second fire station, in lower Ormond Street, opposite Foutaine Square. Around 1885 a committee was set up to look into the possibility of forming a Volunteer Brigade, and 32 members were enrolled as a firefighting unit with ...

A view of Woodville, showing shops and cottages.

Date:          1881 to 1882

This plan for alterations and additions to a cottage was designed by L. G. West for G. H. Redwood of Woodville. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In ...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1898

This photograph was taken by the Manawatu Evening Standard to illustrate fashion, but it was not used. The women are unidentified, but the location appears to be the Woodville Racecourse.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 13, 1958

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: Arena 1, awards, building consents, civic awards, conservation...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 2005

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23rd December 1965 "Woodville water supply break: The Woodville town clerk (Mr. T.B. Donald) standing at the point where the Woodville water supply pipeline blew out las...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Woodville
Date:          December 23, 1965

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23rd December 1965 "Woodville water supply break: The valve which caused the trouble. The borough foreman (Mr. I.A. Coburn) holds the two parts of the bro...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Woodville
Date:          December 23, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings" [War memorial at Woodville. A large rock with a white cross on top and a plaque which reads "In memory of those who served that th...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Woodville
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 February, 1964. "Ashhurst and Woodville firemen "mopping up" small pockets of fire from the road in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday. Engines from three brigades attended the f...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 February, 1964. "Ashhurst and Woodville firemen "mopping up" small pockets of fire from the road in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday. Engines from three brigades attended the f...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

This image ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 March 1988 alongside this story: "The old limestone quarry near Woodville will soon be demolished, but until then it should be treated as dangerous. Owner Maurice Gleeson of Pahiatua's Gleeson ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Near Woodville
Date:          March 1988

[Image of water supply pipeline, Woodville.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Woodville
Date:          December 23, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23rd December 1965 "Woodville water supply break: The insert shows the new length of pipe inserted to replace the valve which broke."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Woodville
Date:          December 23, 1965

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 February, 1964. "Ashhurst and Woodville firemen "mopping up" small pockets of fire from the road in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday. Engines from three brigades attended the f...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 May 1958, page 12: "The referee is not going to receive the ball as it may seem in this incident between Woodville and Red Shield at the Intermediate School grounds o...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 22, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 June, 1963. "Gathered on the platform of the Palmerston North railway station excitedly waiting for the railcar to take them to Woodville are these 23 young primer st...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 11, 1963

Lodge Ruahine No. 80, Woodville - Freemasons. 

Installation of Bro. John Alfred Steele S.W as Worshipful Master and Investiture of Officers.

Scanned from the original document at 600dpi held in family history collection. Comp...

Creator:      Jay Anaru (Steele)

Date:          June 25, 1930

Army personnel resident in Woodville for training.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Tararua District
Date:          1940s

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Woodville
Date:          circa 1967

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Woodville
Date:          circa 1967

This aerial view of Woodville shows the Main Street running diagonally across the photograph, from third of the ways down from the top left corner to a third of the way up from the bottom right corner.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Woodville
Date:          1979

These Lime works are located at the Woodville end of the Manawatu Gorge.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tararua District
Date:          1960

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North

Date:          circa 1967

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North

Date:          circa 1967

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North

Date:          circa 1967

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North

Date:          circa 1967

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North

Date:          1950s

A derelict house at 60 Ormond Street, Woodville. Built in an Art Deco style, it likely dates from the late 1920's.

Creator:      Raphael Cardoso
Place:          60 Ormond Street, Woodville
Date:          May 11, 2019