Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 15th November 2022. Part 2 of 3. Transition from NZ Forest Service to DoC. Setting up a DoC district office. Recreation facilities, tracks, huts. The Manawatu Gorge track. The Rangiwahia hut. Sc...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 15, 2022
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Manawatū Gorge has been a vital east -west access way since people first came to the region. For Māori, the river was the highway through the gorge they called Te Āpiti. R...
Creator: Dorothy Pilkington
Place: Manawatu
Date: August 27, 2022
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 October 1960 "Photographed from a moving train, this view looked up-stream in the Manawatu Gorge to the highway bridge, shows the native bush which is quite dense in ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: October 17, 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 July 1958, page 6: "This large slip which occurred in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday is likely to hold up regular rail traffic from the East Coast until tomorrow."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Manawatū Gorge
Date: July 21, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 October 1960 "This view of the main highway bridge at the eastern end of the Manawatu Gorge was photographed from a railway carriage of the special train excursion to...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: October 17, 1960
This hand-tinted postcard shows the Manawatū Gorge around 1900.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1900
PalmyProud celebrates the people, places and events in our city. The free quarterly magazine aims to inspire locals and visitors to learn more about this special place we call home. It’s published by Palmerston North City Council.
Inside this iss...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2019
The Upper Manawatu Bridge taken at the Woodville end of the Manawatu Gorge Walk. Taken on 15 July 2017 while the Gorge Road was closed due to a large slip and 1 day after a large southern storm had passed over the country. Gorge Road has now been ...
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Manawatu Gorge
Date: July 15, 2017
A man standing beside his car at the Woodville end of the Manawatū Gorge. One of the "twin tunnels" can be seen as well as the Ballance Bridge.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
This lime processing plant was situated between Ballance Bridge and Woodville. The operation used the railway as its only source of moving the processed rock. It has since closed down.
Creator: Linotype Services, Palmerston North
Place: Between Ballance and Woodville, Tararua
Date: circa 1946
The Gorge road opened in 1872, and in 1875 the Government established a tollhouse at the Woodville end to defray the cost of maintaining the road. Hans Olsson was the third and last toll-keeper and also worked on the Gorge road. In 1912 tolls were...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Woodville, Tararua District
Date: circa 1900
The beautiful White Horse Rapids, Tawa Loop track, Manawatu Gorge
Creator: Karen Lyons
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: April 25, 2018
Members of the 9A District Roads Council inspect the the first stage of a new bridge on the Manawatu Road Gorge road. The Bailey bridge alongside was later lifted out. From left: John McKelvie; Buck Alley, MOW Resident Engineer; Trevor Wilson; Fra...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Manawatu Gorge, Manawatu
Date: 1980
The Manawatu Gorge road looking west. A line of traffic waits for west-bound vehicles to pass the temporarily controlled section of the highway. The two bluffs shown here were removed to provide 50,000 yards of earthwork material for the Ballance ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: November 15, 1969
Heavy machinery beginning the task of cutting back the cliff face on the Manawatu Gorge road, using a bull dozer and grader. Driver: Lawrence Gudsell. Published in the Manwatu Evening Standard 1 November 1969.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Gorge, Manawatu
Date: 1969
Dated from the 1920s and 1930s, this photograph album depicts events on the Manawatū Gorge road including construction and repairs of the road, removing slips, car accidents etc. The album also contains images of Napier following the earthquake of...
Creator: William Brockie
Place: Manawatū Gorge
Date: 1925 to 1935
The Ballance Bridge crosses the Manawatu River near the Woodville end of the Manawatu Gorge. It was constructed in 1904 and served until 1968 when it was closed and replaced by an iron-concrete [ironcrete] bridge opened in 1971.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: Manawatū Gorge
Date: 1920
Beautiful short walk through native bush.
Creator: Karen Lyons
Place:
Date: December 17, 2017
The train is travelling from east to west.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Workmen clearing a slip in the Manawatu Gorge.
From left: Unknown; H Lyons; W Weston; Unknown
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu Gorge
Date: 1895
Part of a series of photographs showing the widening of the Gorge, c. 1920s.
Creator: Gilmour Family
Place: Manawatū Gorge
Date: 1920
The road through the Manawatu Gorge was constructed in 1872. This photograph is prior to the railway line being built in 1891.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1880s
This is part of a series of early views of the Manawatu Gorge, taken after the road was constructed 1875.
Creator: E E Caney
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1878
This photograph shows the railway tunnel at the eastern end of the Manawatu Gorge situated opposite the Ballance Bridge.
Creator: S M Nairn
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1925
This hand coloured postcard shows the Manawatu Gorge looking west, with the railway line on the left hand side.It has a New Zealand flag drawn in the left hand top corner.
Creator: Ernest Denton
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1880 to circa 1889
Postcard states ‘Railway, Manawatu Gorge. N.Z.’ The Postcard is signed by “Jewell” on the reverse.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1910
The Manawatu Gorge road opened in 1872, and in 1875 the bridge at the Woodville end was built to replace the ford across the Manawatu River. The bridge measured 428 feet in length, and the main span was 162 feet with five side spans of 40 feet and...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1909
These Lime works are located at the Woodville end of the Manawatu Gorge.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tararua District
Date: 1960
A road through the Gorge, linking Manawatu with Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay, was constructed 1871-1872. This photograph, taken, from the east, was taken before the construction of the railway on the opposite bank in 1891.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890