Memory Lane - "Building Manawatu history"
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Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. In the 1950s and 1960s, building company Beazley Homes built homes to meet a housing shortage. The nationwide company made pre-cut affordable homes, with the house and section sold as a package. Rex J. Thompson Manawatu Ltd was the local franchise building company. The company built 382 houses in 12 years in Manawatū and neighbouring regions.
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- Object type
- Image
- Content type
- Born digital
- Relation
- Manawatū Standard
- Date
- July 17, 2010
- Digitisation id
- 2025Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_043645
- Format
- Born Digital
- Held in
- IMCA Digital Archive
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- Created By
- Tina White
- Place
- Manawatū
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