Looking across the railway lines to the Main Road through Bunnythorpe.

Creator:      R E Clevely
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959

The panelled, furnished, foyer of , what appears to be, a large house.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1901 to circa 1910

The War Memorial, dedicated to those who died in World War I and World War II, was opened in 1952 at what was then called Fitzroy Park. It was renamed Memorial Park in 1954.

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Memorial Park, Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 23, 1975

Three members of a survey party enjoy a view of the 'Pots' on Otaki River. The Otaki River originates in the Tararua Range and flows for 45 km, firstly heading southwest through a valley in the Tararua Ranges. It turns northwest in the area of Ota...

Creator:      Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington
Place:          Otaki River, Horowhenua
Date:          circa 1900

The Bowling Green Company purchased 18 feet of land fronting Lombard Street, the property of Mrs Freeland, and also Mr Jepson's property in Taonui Street in order to create the Palmerston North Bowling Club. Made through Mr Mowlem's agency, the la...

Creator:      Ernest Denton
Place:          Taonui Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

Shown here is the Queen's table and an table for other dignitaries decorated ready for a reception in the Rosco tearooms [now the City Library 2020].

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1954

The float is pictured outside the C M Ross premises on George Street. It featured women staff members dressed in period costumes from throughout the 50 year history of Palmerston North.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1927

This photograph shows the grounds of Whakarongo School. The two classroom block visible here was erected in 1956.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Stoneycreek Road, Palmerston North
Date:          1956 to 1962

The Palmerston North Public Hospital was constructed in 1893 at a cost of £3,700, with a pound for pound subsidy from the Government. It was built about a mile and a half from The Square in a northerly direction on a slight terrace, over-looking t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North Hospital, Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1894 to 1895

This photograph shows the shops on the corner of Ruahine Street and Main Street. From left: McKinnon's, a bicycle store; Rana and Co, a fruiterers; Watson Brothers; the Post Office.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1955

The Foxton railway line was opened as a wooden tramway to Palmerston North, operating 1871–1873. It converted to iron 1875–1876. The line was closed 19 July 1959.

Creator:      New Zealand Railways
Place:          Foxton, Manawatu
Date:          September 1949

This photograph shows the demolition of the top floor of Central School, Featherston Street after the Napier Earthquake in 1931. There were four main incarnations of Central School - The Original School (corner of Main and Princess Streets, 1873-1...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1931

Constable Kathleen Hannah Wilhelmina McAlley, nee Floyd, [1909-1988] started work as Palmerston North’s first policewoman on 22 June 1951. McAlley transferred to New Plymouth Police in 1955 and retired in 1971. See Ray Carter, Beyond the Call of D...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1951

The crowd watching a parade of horse drawn vehicles in the main ring at the A & P Show. The first A & P Show in Palmerston North was held in 1886. Comprised of two individual photographs - see 2009N_AP10a_A-E_2235 and 2009N_AP10b_A-E_2235 for thes...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915

Meredith McKay Ltd, was situated on Berryman's Lane, off Broadway. The fire, 21 September 1974, destroyed about $200,000 worth of goods and machinery and three firemen required hospital treatment after being overcome by fumes.

Creator:      Manawatu Guardian
Place:          Berryman's Lane and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          September 25, 1974

Shown here are people enjoying the Pergola built in The Esplanade – the Palmerston North City gardens. Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897. The pergola was built c19...

Creator:      G F Framjee
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939

Palmerston North City Council Reserves department entry in the Floral Festival, at the Showgrounds.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date:          1958

Rongotea School celebrated its centennial at Easter weekend, April 18-19 1981. The school was opened March 28 by the headmaster, Mr F Whitcombe. The school, known as the Campbell-town School, had a roll of 11. The Centennial Parade through Rongote...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          April 1981

A general view of Mangaweka with the Rangitikei River in the foreground. Mangaweka is a township on State Highway One (SH1), in the North Island of New Zealand, with a population of just over 200. It is between Taihape to the north and Hunterville...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Mangaweka, Rangitikei Region
Date:          September 4, 1982

The Skyhawk, piloted by Flight Lieutenant John Nicholas Dick, was on a routine exercise in the Colenso area of the Ruahine Ranges when it crashed on 25 March 1981. Flight Lieutenant Dick was killed in the crash. This photograph shows the location...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Colenso Area, Ruahine Ranges, Rangitikei Region
Date:          March 1981

An aerial view of the Terrace End shopping area of Palmerston North. In the left foreground is Main Street, showing the central parking where the railway line formerly ran, off which runs Ruahine Street. Broadway runs off Ruahine Street. The Prin...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1975

'Darkie' belonged to Mary Roots and 'Man' was Mrs Emily Wybourne Roots (nee Reid) horse. The Roots lived at Upper Kawhatau, north of Rangiwahia in the Ruahine Ranges.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1898

The “Marion’ floating dredge hard at work widening the Linton main drain, note the large wooden cover on the rear of the machine. This dredge, built by the Marion Steam Shovel Co. of the USA was purchased in 1922 by the Makerua Srainage Board.

Creator:      Hugh Akers [?]
Place:          Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1920

The Manawatu Stables, on the far right, stood on George Street, Palmerston North. They were replaced by the Palace Movie Theatre in 1915 (later the Mayfair and then the Odeon), which was demolished to make way for what is now Harvey Normans (2007)...

Creator:      Charles Allen
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1912

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

A severe storm which crossed the North Island 2 February 1936 caused substantial damage in and around Palmerston North, one of the hardest hit towns. Houses lost roofs, chimneys were blown over, the grandstands of the A&P Association, the Awapuni ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1936

This photograph shows a crowd of people traveling by boat, possibly to the celebration surrounding the opening of the dam at Turitea on 17 February 1913.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1913

George Ernest Davey of Kairanga, 19 years of age, drowned in the Awapuni Lagoon 14 January 1894, while swimming there with his brothers William and Samuel. At the time he was working for Mr Foster-Pratt. George is buried at Terrace End cemetery.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1890

At the first Cuba Street Fire Station, Palmerston North, situated near the corner of George Street, 1910-1926. From left. On the Clydesdale engine: Unknown (rear); 'Paddy' Prentice; Coleman; Unknown (rear); Superintendent Barnard (seated); Unknown...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1922

Samuel Jickell was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer from 1904-1919. In 1905, a new outfall was laid and septic tanks and filter beds were constructed at Awapuni. These septic tanks were in use until 1968.

Creator:      Samuel Jickell
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1905