The interior of the electrical appliance shop, McLeod and Svendsen, located on the corner of Kimbolton Road and Manchester Square. The fashions (cloche hats and hemlines), suggest this photo was taken between 1925 and 1930. This photograph was supplied by Bernard Svendsen, whose father Albert Svendsen co-owned the shop from May 1923. The shop was sold in 1977 to Leader & Watt.
Added to the database by Lydia Smith, 2023.
Sketch done by Edith Halcombe. This was her and Arthur's family home, built in the early 1870's. The house originally stood in a garden that extended to the corner of Warwick Street, to Kimbolton Road, and through to Queen Street, around seven acres in all.
The foundation stone of the Masonic Hall in Feilding was laid in 1897, and the building was opened in 1898. An impressive masonry façade in the Edwardian Free Classical style, designed by C. Tilleard Natusch & Sons, was added in 1913, featuring a balustraded parapet atop a triangular pediment, with columns framing the central front door. Removed 2014
Post Office & Manchester Square, Tourist Series 2172 Post card. Looking down Kimbolton Road. Post Office on left, Feilding Hotel on right. With G A Peel and Rangitikei Club shown.
showing the new shops that have been built (Property Brokers) and the ones that are under construction.
Evening photograph taken on Kimbolton Road, looking toward South Street. Child Section Entry
A hot summers evening at Kowhai Park Duck Pond and Rose Garden on South Street. Teenage section entry.
Popular Lees Restaurant - Chinese & Vietnamese located in Kimbolton Road between Stafford Street and Manchester Square.
Norfolk Crescent is bottom left, with Kimbolton Road running length of photograph.
Looking down onto Warwick Street with Kimbolton Road running the length of the photograph. The photograph must have been taken on a Friday as you can see the Friday's Market in the Square.
On Feilding's northern boundary, the Kiwitea Stream had broken its banks and attacked the Kimbolton Rd bridge supports from two directions. Eighty metres of the dual carriageway concrete bridge disappeared. When the bridge went, the stream-turned-river attacked the surrounding banks with a vengeance. About 500sq m of land was lost, also a large implement shed containing grader parts, tyres and other equipment. On the far bank of the river another 80m of land was washed away in just an hour.
Photograph 1 - Looking up Manchester Street. Photograph 2 - Looking down Kimbolton Road and Manchester Square to McArthur Street. Photograph 3 - Looking from the Feilding Hotel across to Darraghs Building
Laying the Foundation Stone, 1963 - Knox Church, corner of North & Kimbolton Road, Feilding. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the Rt. Rev. J.S. Murray, Moderator of the General Assembly, on November 30th 1963. The church was opened on 5th September 1964.
