This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 25 June 1958, page 8: "The days of the life of the wooden structure in this photograph are numbered. The bridge is that used by railway traffic and is situated south of ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          June 25, 1958

The old Midland Brewery had been used as a milk processing plant for the past 30 years prior to 1976. It was purchased in the mid- 1940s by the Manawatu Milk and Cream Co. When the new milk processing plant in Gillespie’s Line began operating th...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Between Church and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 28, 1974

The old Fire Station was constructed in 1910. In 1926 the Brigade was moved into new premises in Cuba Street when this building proved to be too small for its needs. Currently [2015] the Fire Station is located in Church Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1967

This photograph shows the demolition of a building linked to the Longburn Freezing Works. This is probably the building that housed the incinerators for the disposing of waste.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1949

The Clarendon Hotel stood on the corner of Rangitikei Street and The Square. Taken the day after the fire in January 1904, looking to the Manawatu Stables on George Street, at the end of Coleman Place.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1904

This photograph shows the building that housed the Alan Bramwell Drapery completed destroyed by a fire. It is unknown where this building is, but based on photographs that are in the same collection it is estimated the fire happened in the 1950s.

Creator:      Clarice Parlane

Date:          1950s