This photograph was taken in the McGiffert Street depot of Child Brothers. Child Brothers Ltd, Carriers and Fuel Merchants, was established in 1919 by Edward G Child and his sons, W J Child & E W H Child. They opened the metal crushing depot and p...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1927
This image was taken by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
"The Bainesse School reecntly [sic] celebrated their jubilee with a cabaret, roll call, church service and parade of floats. Three hundred old pupils...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Bainesse
Date: August 1963
This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
"The Bainesse School reecntly [sic] celebrated their jubilee with a cabaret, roll call, church service and parade of floats. Three hun...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Bainesse
Date: August 1963
This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
"The Bainesse School reecntly [sic] celebrated their jubilee with a cabaret, roll call, church service and parade of floats. Three hun...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Bainesse
Date: August 1963
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.
Caption: “Orphans’ Club [of Te Kuiti] members are taken for a ride by the Savage Club.”
Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressing-up' ...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
Miranui Flaxmill was owned by A & L Seifert Flaxmilling Company Ltd and opened in 1907. The photograph shows two men building a stack of bleached fibre in the paddocks adjacent to the mill buildings. As the scutching shed is full the Paddockers a...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
This photograph is part of a series taken by Thomas Doherty, a steel construction worker. The water tower for Ohakea Base is shown here under construction.
Creator: Thomas Doherty
Place: Ohakea Air Base, Ohakea
Date: circa 1938 to circa 1939
Building, from left: [1] Victoria Buildings - built in 1901, demolished c 1928. [2] Bradfield, "The Cash Grocers" [3] The Crown Studios, Whalley and Co. Photographers [4] W Pegden, furnishing warehouse. Established in 1882 by Simmonds and Pegden a...
Creator: Martin Alderson
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1906
Whitehead's was a bakery and confectionery shop. Mr Foster, seated on the cart, is delivering bread to houses in Main Street east
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street East, Palmerston North
Date: 1907
Buildings, from left: Nash building?; ?; ?; Garner Brothers; ?; Cyril K Whale; J B Wilton; Star Cycles; Commercial Hotel; Cameron's Royal Hotel; the New Zealand Clothing Factory; ? ; ? Tobacconist; Thacker; De Luen Brothers - Tailors; Stockwell De...
Creator: Martin Alderson, Palmerston North
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1906
The Manawatu County celebrated its centennial over 2-3 April 1977. This is one of the floats that took part in the procession.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Sanson
Date: 1977
The Indian troops of the British Imperial Army toured New Zealand and visited Palmerston North for a short time. The train stopped in the centre of the Square, the troops disembarked, performed some displays and them re-embarked on the train. For ...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 24, 1901
There was a week of events to celebrate Palmerston North being granted Borough status in 1877. On Wednesday a 'Cavalcade of Transport Through the Ages' paraded around The Square. The cavalcade was headed by an eight-horse team of Clydesdales owned...
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 19, 1952
The Palmerston North Gas Company’s premises were on the corner of Cook and Main Streets. Shown are the Company's drivers with their drays and horses on display at the Showgrounds.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1914
The wagon display is for Millar and Giorgi, menswear shop (established 1902), and is halted outside the Club Hotel in Church Street. David (Davey) Lloyd, standing by horse, was the last of Palmerston North’s horse-drawn carters, operating until th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1927
The man in the centre is Mr Samuel Jickell, who was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer and on the right is Mr Christian Voss. The date of this photograph suggests these men were on their way to the construction site of the second dam at Turitea.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Turitea Road, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1907
Crowds wait for a passenger train at the Main Street Railway Station. The Main Street Station served Palmerston North from 1890 - 1963, when it moved to Tremaine Avenue.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The first Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Show was held in Palmerston North November 1886, at the Showgrounds, Cuba Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The Palmerston North Gas Company’s premises were on the corner of Cook and Main Streets. Shown is one of the Company's drays and horses on display at the Showground.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1914
This photograph includes (from right): the Occidental Hotel (on the corner Fitzherbert Street); Fred Chatch (importer); the "British Restaurant"; unidentified building; unidentified ironmongers; unidentified building; unidentified butchers; C M Sn...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1880 to circa 1899
The building at centre, built as the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, became the Palmerston North Borough Council offices. In 1944-1945, a new building was built (now Square Edge). to the right of this building can be seen the All Saints Church,const...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of The Square and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Reverend Father P.C. Costello died in Palmerston North 7 December 1912. The funeral was very large with 50 priests from all over the district attending. The procession is shown at the corner of Broad Street (now Broadway) and The Square.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1912
The Bank of Australasia, now the ANZ Bank, can be seen at the corner of the Square and Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue). The jewellers Gerrand is next to it, occupying part of the ground floor of the same building. J B Gerrand and Sons Ltd moved...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1920s
The caption from the book this print was copied from reads, "Two pictures of the old railway station before its removal from the centre of The Square / The top picture shows the back of the station and the arrival of the Woodville Coach, the drive...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1885
The Indian troops of the British Imperial Army toured New Zealand and visited Palmerston North for a short time. The train stopped in the centre of The Square, the troops disembarked, performed some displays and them re-embarked on the train. For ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 24, 1901
This photograph is from a set of 7 entitled "Grass-Seed Raising in the Manawatu". The accompanying caption reads: “Carting Seed into the Store. This picture tells us the seed has, so to speak, reached a ‘temporary home.’ We see the lorries full...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
Jack Carr is driving the empty dray cart. Other men identified as: Jack Tomlin; Frank Cahill; Loyal Craw.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
A wagon loaded with wool bales outside a shed. The “Matsubara” homestead of Mr G H Aldrich was located two miles out of Bunnythorpe, on the Bunnythorpe – Ashhurst road. The homestead was built about 1888 and destroyed by a fire in the late 1910s.
Creator: A S Aldrich
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1904
The Square looking from Main Street East towards Church Street. THe buildings were, from left: [1] The Manawatu Farmers' Co-Operative Association. The firm was in existence from 1892 to 1895 when it became the United Farmer's Co-operative Associat...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1893
Child Bros., carriers of Palmerston North, brought supplies into the area and took out produce, by horse and wagon. Bales of hay are been taken out.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1920