Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th October 2025. Part 1 of 2. Dianne Broadley grew up in the Wairarapa in the 1940s–50s, surrounded by music from her family and community.
Her mother sang, played piano, and attended dances, wh...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 7, 2025
Rugby World Cup fans were able to enjoy a wealth of events in Te Marae o Hine – the Square during the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
The ‘Our People, Our Place’ Festival was a pan-regional organisational effort across hospitality, local government, busine...
Creator: Shane Bayley
Place: Te Marae o Hine, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: September 29, 2011
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The Municipal Opera House, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected for the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and w...
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1939
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Alex M Crocket
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The Manawatū Musicians and Entertainers Club Big Band performing at the Palmerston North Opera House during the 1st Annual Jazz Festival. Trumpets L-R: Peter Hales, "Nip" Spring, Frank Perry, Trevor Prout Trombones L-R: Peter Wood, John Robinson S...
Creator: Manawatū Jazz Club
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 27, 1968
The Palmeston North Operatic Society are shown here performing 'The Drinking Song' during rehearsals for their production of "The Student Prince", in the Palmerston North Opera House. This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard, 23 August...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: August 23, 1963
A programme from the Centennial Choral Festival held at the Opera House. Performers included the Lyric Singers, The King's Choristers, Palmerston North Girls' High School, Palmerston North Choral Society, Shannon Combined Churches Choir, and the U...
Creator: Palmerston North Choral Society
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 27, 1971
Alan Loveday (b. 1929, Palmerston North) was a renowned child violinist who went overseas to further his career in 1939. A concert was put on at the Opera House, Palmerston North, 14 January 1939, at which Alan and others performed. From the archi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 1938
This is the programme for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 12 May and 17 May 1947. The competition categories included elocution...
Creator: Manawatū Competitions Society
Date: May 1947
This is the programme for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 8 and 13 May 1950. The competition categories included elocution (sp...
Creator: Manawatū Competitions Society
Date: May 1950
This is the programme for the Thirty-Second Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Repertory and All Saints' Halls between 9 and 14 May 1955. The competition categories included elocution (speech a...
Creator: Manawatū Competitions Society
Date: May 1955
This is the programme for the Twenty-Eighth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 7 and 12 May 1951. The competition categories included speech and dra...
Creator: Manawatū Competitions Society
Date: May 1951
This is the programme for the Thirty-Third Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Concert Chamber and All Saints' Hall between 7 and 12 May 1956. The competition categories included speech and dram...
Creator: Manawatū Competitions Society
Date: May 1956
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1912
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6th February 199.
"BB King, Palmerston North Opera House, January 10. Wednesday night, the last week in January, and Riley B. King made his first visit to Palmerston No...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Date: February 6, 1991
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: F A Tier
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Evening Post, Wellington
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1937
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The Municipal Opera House of Palmerston North, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and r...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The information for this image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20th February 1979.
"The long awaited appearance locally by Video is taking place this weekend at the Albert Motor Lodge. Phil Scott and the rest of...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: February 20, 1979
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The information for this image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th September 1987
"Remember the final days of Meltdown Record's last venue the Commercial? The bop till you drop seemingly endless succession of ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 2, 1987
A community street piano on George Street, outside the Library, October 2019
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: George Street
Date: October 2019
Logo for the Centennial production of Under The Sun.
Jenny McLeod was commissioned by the city of Palmerston North to compose music to commemorate its centenary in 1971. The resulting work, Under The Sun, was performed twice during Palmersto...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 29, 1971
The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott, arch...
Creator: R H Abraham
Place: Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 27, 1964
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1954
"The Mikado" was produced by the Palmerston North Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society in 1901. From left to right, Zilla Flyger (later Mrs Brooke Taylor), Hester Burr (later Mrs Rogers), Amelia Whalley (nee McMinn). The lead role of Ko-Ko was pl...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1901