Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 5th November 2019. Part 1 of 3. Born 1940, father away during the war. Early years in Rewa. Father severely wounded in Italy. Father’s war diary, parcels from home. Treatment after wounded, eventual return t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 5, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 7 May, 2019. Trish Keiller on the history of Caccia Birch House, interviewed by Alison Mildon. Sound of cicadas in the background. Caccia Birch Trust Board member. House uses, history display. Original purchas...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 7, 2019
Broadcast on Access manawatu, 12 June 2018.
Abbeyfield residents Beryl Ludlam, Bev Marsh, Elaine Morse and Peggy Pedersen describe their experiences. Topics include: School in the war years, air raid practice and shelters, power blackouts, fear ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: June 12, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 11th January 2022. Part 1 of 2. Eileen just turned 90. Came to NZ from UK in 1953, 10 pound Pom. Went to NZ for 2 years’ OE after future husband (Fred) had gone there, although he had dumped her. Got ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 11, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28th May 2024. Part 1 of 2. Tania is involved with a project called “Untold Stories – World War II Displaced Persons Who Settled in Palmerston North” It is focused on national and local history ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 28, 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 18th May 2021. Came to NZ at 16, after WWII. Soldiers living near them during the war. Samoans working for the soldiers. Japanese bombing. Children playing with grenades, etc., getting killed/in...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 18, 2021
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 16th May 2023. Part 2 of 4. At the Convent school in 1940s. An incident with broken glasses. Send for private tuition. Moved to Wanganui, Marist Brothers. Service cars. Impressions of WWII, recalls en...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 16, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 6th June 2023. Lin Pratt part 1 of 2. First memories, about 3. Father was a share milker. Bare feet, warming in cow droppings. At school in WWII, end of the war. Electric milking parlours, 80-100 cows. Milk...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 6, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 4th June 2024. Continues from Part 1 interview about displaced European people from World War II and a developing project called “Untold Stories – World War II Displaced Persons Who Settled in P...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 4, 2024
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
This register for the Palmerston North Municipal Opera House and Coronation Hall records bookings from 1940 until 1945, for performances, meetings and the activities of community groups. During the Second World War, these venues were also used to ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council, Treasurer's Department
Date: November 1940 to October 1945
This register for the Palmerston North Municipal Opera House and Coronation Hall records bookings from 1935 until 1940, for performances, meetings and the activities of community groups. The Municipal Opera House, designed by F J Wilson and built ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council, Treasurer's Department
Date: October 1935 to October 1940
Creator: Royal New Zealand Airforce
Date: 1944
Members of the Whakarongo Home Guard, which was set up during World War Two, sitting on the back of a truck and manning a checkpoint on the Ashhurst-Palmerston North road, near Raukawa Road. The man second from right is Arthur Koehler.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940 to 1945
Gates to the Kelvin Grove Services Cemetery, commemorating World War One and World War Two.
Kelvin Grove Cemetery, at 118 James Line, Kelvin Grove, is Palmerston North's main cemetery, providing cremation and burial services to the city and its ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 118 James Line, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North
Date: March 6, 2013
A ‘typical scratch band’ of the war period, being scratched together from Linton Army Camp personnel who were able and available to play. 'Pot Wallopers' was the term given to Army staff on pot cleaning duties.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. When local author Private Jack Gallichan was thrown into a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, he started a weekly newspaper called The Tiki Times. Galli...
Creator: Tina White
Date: April 24, 2010
Japan surrendered to the allies of World War II on 15 August 1945. Immediately schools and businesses in Palmerston North were closed and celebrations, many informal, began. A thanksgiving service was held that afternoon, followed by a victory par...
Creator: Unknown
Date: August 16, 1945
Window displays formed part of the celebration and festivities to mark the end of World War Two.
The Manawatū Evening Standard reported on 15 August 1945: "One of the features of the hour was a magnificent window display by the C. M. Ross Coy. ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1945
On the corner of The Square, looking down Broadway, the VJ (Victory over Japan) Day parade, marking the end of World War 2, draws a large crowd. Also see 2010P_IMCA-DigitalLibrary_004501
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of the Square and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: August 16, 1945
The VJ (Victory over Japan) parade passing the corner of The Square and Broadway, watched by a large crowd.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: August 16, 1945
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Māori Battalion trains at the Palmerston North showgrounds in 1940.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 22, 2006
This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.
The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...
Creator: Untold Stories Project
Date: 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th August 2019. Derm Buchanan part 1 of 4. Grew up in Feilding. Impact of WWII. Rode a horse to school. The Boarding at Wellington College, many rules about behaviour. The cane. Big attendance at reunions. T...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: August 13, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 12th March 2019. Lorraine Holtham, Part 3 of 5. Recollections of war. Newsreels at the pictures. Weekly pictures, serials. Observing ANZAC Day in schools. Oldest sister not allowed to town if US troops...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 12, 2019
Broadast on Manawatu People's Radio 25 September 2018.
Summary: Gwen Brown attending 12 schools, father a farmer so moved a lot. Intermediate school in Palmerston North, used as hospital in WWII, so classes in various locations around town. Coun...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 25, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th December 2019. Part 2 of 4. Childhood, moving near Pahiatua, smaller homestead. Then on to sheep farm. WWII, family activities on the farm, schooling. Jack Salt and other teachers led her into te...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 24, 2019