These plans for stables, feed-boxes and a cottage were designed by L. G. West & Son for the Foxton Racing Club. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1913

This plan for moditications to the Totalisator House was designed by L. G. West for the Rangitikei Racing Club. The club had been founded in the 1850s and the Bulls racecourse established in 1878. In 1969 the club shifted its activities to Awapuni...

Creator:      L G West

Date:          1912

These images are part of the Frank Goldingham collection and were possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third or fourth quarter of 1960. Selections may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham

Date:          1960

These images are part of the Frank Goldingham collection and were possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the third or fourth quarter of 1960. Selections may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham

Date:          1960

Name: Lyndhurst

Suburb, Takaro

Lyndhurst Street was a Mr Frederick Bryant subdivision. His wife, Mrs Mary Ann Bryant, was born near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, and the Bryant family moved there in 1899. This road is named after the st...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library

Date:          2025

Name: Pascal

Suburb, Takaro

This street is named for Mr Louis M Pascal who owned the land when the street was formed, D.P. 578, section 294. Borough rate books reflect that his brother, Mr Claude Marie Pascal, had section 294 under his n...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library

Date:          2024

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Manawatū Racing Club will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2030. Horse racing and attending the races have been a popular leisure activities in Palmerston North since th...

Creator:      Adrian Broad
Place:          West End, Palmerston North
Date:          June 22, 2024

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The beginning and early days of horse racing in the Manawatū, from 1880.

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 20, 2019

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Trainer A.S. Kaye takes his team through the Esplanade on the way back to his stables after hill-country training for the Christmas racing."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 December 1958: "On the first day of the Manawatu Racing Club's summer meeting at Awapuni on Saturday many were seen discussing the form of their fancied runners. Thes...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Racecourse Road, Palmerston North
Date:          December 22, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 April 1963, "Before a good crowd of both buyers and spectators at the Awapuni racecourse today, a number of thoroughbreds were offered. Top price up to lunch was for ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          April 10, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 January, 1959. "With the temperature at 83deg yesterday, those attending the Ashhurst-Pohingina Racing Club's meeting at Awapuni found the shade of tree's exceedingly...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni
Date:          January 20, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 8 January, 1959. "These patrons at the Pahiatua Racing Club's annual meeting at Woodville yesterday take a rest from the crowd and a glance at their race books. They ar...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Woodville
Date:          January 8, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 March, 1959. "Discussing matters of common interest at the Manawatu Racing Club's autumn meeting on Saturday were the president of the Manawatu Club (Mr L. M. Abraham...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          March 24, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 April, 1959. "Three trotting enthusiasts at the first day of the Manawatu Trotting Club's autumn meeting on Saturday (from left): Mrs L. G. Rieger (president's wife),...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Pioneer Highway, Palmerston North
Date:          April 11, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 November 1960 "Mrs. T.H. Knowles, whose husband is the part-owner and trainer of the Melbourne Cup winner, Hi-Jinks, has had scarcely a moment in which to stop and th...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 2, 1960

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 July, 1959. "Mr E. S. Lupton receives his trophy from the master's wife, Mrs G. H. Vickers, after his horse Mighty Robin, won the L. H. Collinson Memorial Bracelet Ha...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          July 21, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 June, 1959. "Two smartly dressed visiting patrons at the second day meeting of the Manawatu Racing Club were Mrs G. Watkins, of Waverley (left) and Mrs J. D. Watson, ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 13, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 June, 1959. "Raincoats were the order of the day for most patrons at Awapuni on Saturday. Here is the crowd studying the doubles totalisator. The woman in the right...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          June 15, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 February 1961: "G.G. Beatson rode the three placegetters in the Tally-ho Stakes at the Dannevirke Show yesterday. He was first on his own horse, Amber Queen, second o...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Dannevirke
Date:          February 8, 1961

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 11th February 1963. [Jockey sitting down in his silks]

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard

Date:          February 11, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 December, 1959. “Four youthful race-goers present at the second day of the Manawatu Racing Club’s summer meeting on Saturday. From left are Mr D. Healy, Misses S. an...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          December 24, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th November 1965 "During their stay in the city members of the touring Commonwealth Parliamentary Association party were the guests of the Woodville Jockey Club which ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          November 29, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th November 1965 "During their stay in the city members of the touring Commonwealth Parliamentary Association party were the guests of the Woodville Jockey Club which ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          November 29, 1965

[Image of four men standing at a race course, one is holding a trophy, another is dressed in jockey silks.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          December 28, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th December 1965 "A section of the record-breaking crowd on the second day of the Manawatu Racing Club's Christmas meeting are seen watching the running of one of the ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          December 28, 1965

This image was taken by The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 December 1962, but did not run in the paper.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 22, 1962

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 9 June, 1959. "Jockeys covered in mud at race meeting."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 9, 1959

Leslie and Clarice Weston-Webb lived in Bunnythorpe with their three children, Roland (b.1932), Barbara (b. 1935) and Audrey (b.1937). Leslie Weston -Webb ran the Bunnythorpe Garage. After he died in 1942 the family moved to Palmerston North. Lesl...

Creator:      Leslie Weston-Webb
Place:          Foxton and Palmerston North
Date:          1930 to 1945