Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th June 2023. Lin Pratt part 2 of 2.   Wireman’s course. Horse for trotting. Cars overheating.  Why choose trotting? Lin’s horses. Rationed petrol. Competitive trotting. Pacing vs trotting....

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 13, 2023

Enjoying a quiet moment on Salisbury Street, Ashhurst. The road became part of SH3 due to the closure of the Manawatū Gorge but was quiet during lockdown - one of the positive parts of the lockdown.

Creator:      Jocelyn Woodward-Candy
Place:          Salisbury Street, Ashhurst
Date:          March 27, 2020

This plan for alterations to 'Waiwiri', a single-storey house, was designed by L. G. West for Arthur Acheson-Gray of Ashhurst. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in a...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1904

The floor plan of the Ashhurst Post Office. Originally the home of Andrew Coombs, the building became the Ashhurst Post Office in 1897. In October 1991, the building was purchased by the Palmerston North City Council, and it became a branch of the...

Creator:      NZPO District Engineer, Palmerston North
Place:          Ashhurst

Palmerston North Borough Boundary to N. E. Kairanga County Boundary (Napier Road).

Date:          1927

Name: Ashgrove

Suburb, Ashhurst

The lane is a combination name. It acknowledges Ashhurst the town and Grove Road – which the lane branches off. February 2020.

The aerial image is a derivative of the Palmerston North City Council online m...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library

Date:          2024

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: wastewater treatment plant, The Regent, prisoners' work experi...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 2008

The Ashhurst branch of the Women’s Institute (sometimes Country Women's Institute) was formed 15 August 1932.

A Mrs J. Penket is thought to be 5th from the left behind the front row. She started visiting patients in hospital on behalf of the Man...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          1947

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 23rd June 2020. Tom Romley, Part 4 of 5.  Working on the Upper Yarra Dam, living in a camp. Sleeping bags, dead snake inside. Shift work. 2 “lives” and you were out. How got to Australia. Workers from ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 23, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 9th June 2020. Tom and Colleen Romley, Part 2 of 5.  Leisure activities. Soccer. Learning to swim in the river. Diving off the bridge. Dentists. Sunday School. Pocket money as a boarder. Cinema. Scouts...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 9, 2020

A stuffed bunny in the window of the Ashhurst library to help with the teddy bear hunt to entertain people on their walks in their neighbourhood during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

Creator:      Ashhurst library
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          March 24, 2020

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 September 1958: "Professional cyclists began this morning a two-day tour in five stages. Three stages will be carried out today. The first, from Palmerston North to S...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 20, 1958

Ashhurst School opened in September 1879, with Mr F. Whibley as the temporary head teacher. The first permanent head teacher was Mr Alfred Gower (1880-1887).

Date:          May 1906 to June 1924

Ashhurst School opened in September 1879. During the 1940s the headmaster was Mr. R. Norm Finlay who held the position from c.1935-1954.

An inscription on the reverse provides the following names: Unknown; Max Davis; Harold He- [possibly Herion];...

Date:          1940s

This film documents Ashhurst School's centenary celebrations, held between 19 to 21 October 1979.

Ashhurst is a state co-educational full primary school in the Manawatū region. Ashhurst School officially opened in September 1879, with Mr F. Whi...

Creator:      Clem King

Date:          October 1979

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of Siberia, once a grand homestead located about 16 kilometres from Ashhurst.

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          September 14, 2019

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The heritage team at the Palmerston North city library celebrates local history week 2019, hosting many events for a wide variety of interests, with the common theme th...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:           Manawatū
Date:          October 19, 2019

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 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...

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 was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 June 1961 "Furniture, household fittings and personal effects are seen hurriedly placed out of the way of the fire in front of Mr. C.M.A. Kebbell's two-storey home ne...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 13, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 February 1958, page 8: "The children of the Ashhurst School lost no time in testing the temperature of the new baths at the school which were opened officially on Sat...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          96 Cambridge Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          February 17, 1958

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 27 June, 1963. "The old Austin truck (top photograph) was given to the Ashhurst Volunteer Fire Brigade by the Oroua County Council. Its value today is approximately £250...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          July 27, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 June, 1963. "The old Austin truck (top photograph) was given to the Ashhurst Volunteer Fire Brigade by the Oroua County Council. Its value today is approximately £250...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 27, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 December 1962, "Proudly displaying his Royal certificate is David N. Ramsay, of Ashhurst, who was appointed a Queen's Scout last week. He is the second son in the fa...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          December 24, 1962

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 May, 1963. "Boy scouts K. Guthrie, J. Longbottom and C. Guildford of Ashhurst, lash together stays in the flagpole-erection competition at the Scout-a-rama at Ashhurs...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          May 27, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 30 November, 1959. “Boys from Palmerston North secondary schools took part in the inter-school rifle shooting competition on the Ashhurst range on Saturday. The standar...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 30, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 June 1961 "During the height of the fire in the top storey of Mr. C.M.A. Kebbell's home at Ashhurst yesterday Palmerston North Fire Brigade members hosing down the ha...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          June 13, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th January, 1963. "Members of the Ashhurst Jaycee, with members of the scout movement, made light work of bottle collecting in Ashhurst on Saturday. The Jaycees ran th...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          January 26, 1963