This photograph consists of two views. One is of the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the Post Office (erected 1905-1906, now Highflyers Restaurant & Bar [2014]) in the background. The second is of the bridge over the lakelet in the Squa...
Creator: A Rickard, Palmerston North
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1910 to 1925
G Watchorn was involved in many sporting activities and competed in the Australasian Boxing Championship in 1910. He was awarded the gold medal for the most scientific boxing in the tournament. According to papers from the time, he won the competi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North?
Date: 1910
Phoenix Hockey Club - Winners of the De Luen Cup
Back Row: J Mitchinson (Goal), G Paltridge (wing forward), J McLauchlan (full back), A Cooksley (centre half), R McMurray (right wing), W Mansfield (right-wing half), C Nicoll (delegate). Sitting: ...
Creator: Bunting Studio
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1912
College Street School opened in 1893. There are no names to accompany this photograph.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1920
This photograph shows the competitors in a regular bicycle race in Palmerston North in which the competitors raced to Bulls and back. The starting line was outside the old Family Hotel on the corner of Rangitikei and Featherston Streets. From righ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Corner of Featherston Street and Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1946
This photograph shows the competitors in a regular bicycle race in Palmerston North in which the competitors raced to Bulls and back. The starting line was outside the old Family Hotel on the corner of Rangitikei and Featherston Streets. From righ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Corner of Rangitikei and Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1946
Back row: J Snell, D Hudson, I Franke. Front row: J Brooke, I Yates.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1945
Not all of the figures are identified. Caption reads: H F. Gibbons, Tremaine, [Unknown], R C Donalds, [Unknown], T Edwards, Cleland, [Unknown], [Unknown], R Harkness, J Stalker, D Fraser, A Barraud, J Barmard, [Unknown], [Unknown], [Unknown].
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1912
The "Old Boys' Team" were runners up for the Manawatu Hockey championship. G Watchorn (age 16) is the first from the left, second row. Mr Gabites, a school teacher, is in the centre of the front row. The entire team at the time this photograph was...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1904
From left. Back row: Bill Muggeridge?; Tom Graham? ; Arthur Hoskings. Front row: Unknown; Albert Tingey (later Managing Director of Tingey and Co Printers); Tom Lovejoy; Unknown
Creator: F W Mason
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890 to circa 1900
Three men stand with a steam shovel bucket for use with the Marion Steam Shovel machine. It was built at Jas J Niven and Co Ltd workshop in Church street, Palmerston North, for used in the construction of the Milson Railway deviation. On the right...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1928 to circa 1929
Young men from the Warner's Boxing Gym pose for an official photograph with a trophy.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
Frederick Needham was a carpenter. He originally worked at Perrin Brothers & Needham at 46 Rangitikei Street, but from c 1920-1933 he was listed as a builder on his own account at the same address. His taglin reads, "Concrete and Jobbing Work Exec...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1930
Carl Anderson and his wife Annie were born in Norway and came to New Zealand in 1871. They lived in Palmerston North and Dannevirke. From left, back: Emil; Otto Casper; Johan; Thorval; Alfred. Front: Oscar; Annie; Carl; Ethel.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
The Co-op baseball team pose for a team photograph. The Manawatu Cooperative Society operated from 1935-1988, based on British models which returned profits to member shareholders by rebates on purchases. ‘The Co-op’ began with a grocery store in ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
Back row, from left: Dick Amon, Clodz Danzel, Canstick, unidentified, George Burgess, unidentified, Charlie Emrie, unidentified. Middle row: Norm Wheeler, Graham Frecklington, Bill Gust, Laurie Pounard, Bill Jacobs, Steve Paunard, Innes. Front row...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: 1930 to 1933
Some of the men in this image have been identified, but because there are fewer names than figures it is not clear to whom the names belong. Back row, from left: OJ Parry (Wellington), P Hale (Wellington), A Thompson (Marlborough), (?), Tim Tracy ...
Creator: Hemus & Hanna (?), Sarony Studios (?)
Place: Unknown
Date: 1908
Geoffrey Watchorn was involved in many sporting activities and competed in the Australasian Boxing Championship in 1910. He was awarded the gold medal for the most scientific boxing in the tournament. According to papers from the time, he won the ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: 1909
This appears to be part of hockey team - their uniforms match those of the CM Ross Co. staff hockey team, but there is no indication that they belong to that team.
Geoffrey Watchorn is in the front row, from right.
Creator: Ernest Denton
Place: Unknown
Date: circa 1907 to circa 1909
(Check newspaper index, broken at time of upload) Back row, from left: C Ball (lightweight), M Kreft (light heavy-weight), F Hubbard (middleweight), A Rule (feather weight). Front row, from left: G Grindrod (manager), G Watchorn (delegate), C Warn...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: 1949
Back row, from left: J Sullivan, J Cole. Middle row: A Smith, G Watchorn, Dr O'Brien (Association President), A Dalgiell. Front row: A Jervis, M Ineson. For more information on this event, see Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9233, 5 July 1912...
Creator: Zak Studios, Wellington
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1912
Group photo of young women outside St Andrew’s Church, Palmerston North. Seated, centre, is Jessie Moore Chapman, eldest daughter of local sheep and dairy farmer William Chapman. Jessie and her elder brother John were among the initial intake o...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1928