If you came into the library on Wednesday 1 March, you could have been forgiven for thinking you'd taken the DeLorean back to the 1980s. Staff were dressed up to celebrate the opening of the exhibition 'Rewind to the 80's'.

The exhibition was a collaboration between Libraries Horowhenua and MAVtech, the Museum of Audio and Visual Technology (Foxton). It was a nostalgic flashback to the technology of the 1980s, an important decade full of momentum and transformation, with a new millennium on the horizon. Much of the technology we enjoy today stems from innovations from this time.

MAVtech scoured their archives to find some fantastic examples... there's even a space helmet television!

These images are scans of Instax Square photos - actual film photos!

Pictured: iSite & Visitor Information Coordinator Sarah Ward

Colour photograph.

Photo taken at Read Family reunion in Sanson in October 1982 of Edward Joseph and Alice Maude Murphy and their extended family. Details on separate sheet attached. Those in photograph from left to right:-

Back row:- Sean Murphy, Derek Murphy, Donald Murphy, Peter Murphy

Middle row:- Patricia Murphy, Philip Murphy, James Murphy, Catherine Murphy, Heather Murphy

Front row:- Ryan Murphy, Phyllis Murphy, Edward Murphy, Steven Murphy, Paul Murphy, Cheryl Murphy, Roma Murphy, Andrew Murphy (on Roma’s knee), Arthur Murphy.

Also noted on enclosed sheet are how they are related and those that are absent.

Colour photograph.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”