This 18 " sewer was laid on a ferro concrete support as the land was swamp 14 foot deep. Samuel Jickell, also the photographer, was Borough Engineer for the Palmerston North Borough Council 1904-1919.
Creator: Samuel Jickell
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
Interior view of staff at work, with women on sewing machines. In 1902 Frederick Johansen was listed as a bootmaker in Palmerston North, possibly at 48 Bourke Street. he later moved to Main Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 July 1963 with the caption: "Yet another section of a familiar Palmerston North building crumbles under the demolition hammer. This work is part of a project to clear the site for Palmerst...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: July 1963
The $40,000 Coleman Mall redevelopment was opened on 27 July 1973 by the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr B.G.C. Elwood. The work was done by Palmerston North City Council workmen except for the asphalting of the parking and pedestrian areas.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date: 1973
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 November 1960 "The National Party candidate for Palmerston North (Mr. W.H. Brown, left) congratulating Mr. P.O. Skoglund (Labour) on his success on Saturday. Mr. Skog...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 28, 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 September 1969. The caption was illegible, but the negative packet reads, "New Knitting Machine Being Delivered to Blue Bell Knitwear".
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 27, 1969
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 September 1969. The caption was illegible, but the negative packet reads, "New Knitting Machine Being Delivered to Blue Bell Knitwear".
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 27, 1969
Mr Bill Hughes (Borough Foreman) is standing on the left (with hat), J R Hughes is standing behind him (wearing a suit). J R Hughes was Borough Engineer from 1919-1937. This photograph appears to be taken beside the old sewage ponds at Awapuni.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
This "McDougall Farmers' Notebook 1935-36" was used as a diary by an unknown farm worker who went on 'Tour of N.I.', beginning 15 October 1935 (first entry). He travelled from Blenheim, and records his holiday, mainly in the Hawkes Bay and Giborne...
Creator: Anonymous, possibly J Lane
Date: 1935 to 1936
At work in the Wellington Harbour Board’s grading shed and hemp store.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Wellington
Date: circa 1910
These workers may have been working at Bock and Coley's portion of the Moutoa Swamp. From left: A Albury; Unknown; W Young; Unknown (partly concealed by flax); Charlie Morgan; William Newth; Morgan (?).
Creator: E A Phillips
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1912
Paddockers are dismantling a stack of fibre in a drying paddock in Foxton. The hanks of dried fibre are being loaded into a dray for transport back to the flaxmill for scutching. Man standing left foreground by post, is Darcy Knewstub, others unid...
Creator: E A Phillips
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: 1912
The mill is thought to have been Miranui at Shannon, because the mill had a wooden floor on their yard. The Poplar mill in Moutoa also had a wooden yard. These bundles of flax have been trammed into the mill yard, where they were stored on end for...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1910
Buidling a bridge across what is thought to be the Mangaone Stream.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1930
The workmen are digging up a section of Albert Street, Palmerston North.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1955
This grader was owned by the Kairanga County Council and used on their roads. The exact locality of this photograph is unknown. Mr Jack Findlay is standing on the grader.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown - Manawatu
Date: circa 1914 to circa 1918
Unidentified worker stooking sheaves of oats. The oats are tied with stalks of the plant. Location unknown.
Creator: Unknown
Andre Zentveld, railway worker, stands outside one of the single men's huts provided by the Railway yards as accommodation.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1952
Workers are shovelling (possibly) blood and bone into sacks, marked as 'Longburn'. Note the dog looking over one of the sacks.
Creator: Robert Wallis
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1920
The brick morgue was built by the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1904 and was transported from its original site in Church Street (at the rear of the old Opera House) to a new site at Terrace End Cemetery in Napier Road in 1908. The council e...
Creator: Samuel Jickell [?]
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1908
Shown here are Dutch migrants, who arrived on the "Sibajick to Wellington" to work under contract to the New Zealand Railways, in order to help construct the Milson Railway deviation, that took the train station, yards and track out of the centre ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1952
His Majesty's Theatre opened on 6 February 1911. Charles Blackbourn, building contractor, is in the black suit on the left, standing on the scaffold. Blackbourn's building firm collapsed during the depression, after which he drove a taxi while his...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1910
W H Foot's sawmill at the top of Forest Hill Road, Fitzherbert East, was probably the last mill operating on the northern Tararuas. It was erected in 1920 and operated until about 1927. The mill was situated on what is now Mr Don Scott's property....
Creator: Unknown
Place: Forest Hill Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1920
John Prentice purchased the brickworks in Boundary Road (now Tremaine Avenue) in 1900. The buildings on the far left are the drying sheds and mixing sheds (steam powered). From left: John Prentice, owner (3rd from left, white moustache); Albert Be...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
At the time of this photograph the Palmerston North railway station and yards were in Main Street, just down from The Square. Percy Humpries (left) and Andre Zentveld are show here 'cleaning the points' in the Palmerston North railway yard near th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
Shearers at work on A S Aldrich’s farm “Matsubara”, Bunnythorpe, north of Palmerston North. 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 188...
Creator: A S Aldrich
Place: Bunnythorpe
Date: circa 1904
This mill was situated on the south side of Rowe's Line (now known as Rowe Road) about one mile east from the Foxton-Sanson Highway. The mill was started about the year 1874 by Mr Charles Nicholas Rowe, who had previously been flaxmilling on the R...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rowe Road, Rongotea
Date: circa 1893
A group of men gather together on the Fitzherbert side of the bridge.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1934
This view shows Mr George Lucas' dwellinghouse (cut into two portions) being shifted from Penny's Line, Mt Stewart, to Awahuri. The traction engine belonged to Mr John Matthews of Mt Stewart and was being driven by his son, Hector. Mr Lucas was th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Penny Road, Awahuri
Date: circa 1920
Mr Eggleton uses his traction engine to move a boiler from Shannon to Mangahao to the new hydro works. It is thought that the boiler was used to pump air into the tunnels being driven into the rock during the construction of the power station.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Mangahao, Shannon
Date: circa 1920