This is MAVtech's second cinema advertising slide from Foxton's Cochran's Cycles. The first slide dates to around the same era and promotes Raleigh bicycles. This particular slide shares the virtues of Hercules brand bikes. The company had a float at the 1955 Foxton Centennial Parade which showed both ranges of product. Funnily enough, this slide tells viewers that Hercules bikes were 'The Finest Bicycle Built Today' while the Raleigh machines were advertised on THEIR slide as coming from 'The Greatest Name In Cycling'. 

I'd assume they weren't shown side by side!

The Raleigh slide and the parade photographs are all available on Kete.

Update from plaque in Main Street, Foxton.

The view from Clyde Street dates from the early 1900s, prior to 1905. It was in that year that the old Bank of New Zealand building (next to the first telegraph pole on the left) was burnt down. Whytes Hotel is on the left and on the other side of White Street is the Red Store of M H Walker. A flag flies on the Post Office Hotel. On the right a group stands outside the building which was built as the Bank of Australasia and in the photograph is probably a doctor's surgery. It was also used by the Salvation Army Red Shield Club before it was burnt down.

Main Street, Foxton, looking south from Clyde Street intersection, c.1900. A group of people are gathered on the footpath while a girl dressed in white stands on the road . A gas streetlight stands on the corner.

Also large mounted copy

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Black and white photograph.

Fire at the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd on 16 November 1933. Bystanders are watching smoke billow out of the building, while a man has climbed to the top of the pole on the left hand side of the photograph.

Black and white photograph.

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The Hyde family Hardware Store on the corner Plimmer Terrace and Ballance Street in Shannon.

People examine the burnt out site of business premises on the western side of Oxford Street. The building to the right was A L Williams’ Tea Rooms and this was sold to Woolworths in 1947 and demolished to make way for a new building. The tea rooms was situated in the northern half of what is now (2001) the DEKA Building.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Mounted black and white photograph of the Levin Post Office c 1908. The Post Office staff arfe standing on the steps at the front of the two storied building.

Photograph discoloured on left-hand side.

See also 1977.011.0007 and 1977.011.0008

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Penciled on back: “21 CH”

The Levin Post Office on the south eastern corner of the intersection of Oxford Street and Queen Street. Taken looking north-east this photograph a telephone box is outside thew main building as is a bike-stand. Commercial premises in Queen Street are also shown.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Typed on piece of card glued to front, as caption: “Levin Post Office. Opened 1903, Demolished 1982 (approx.)”

Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink: “P 15” )

Levin Post Office, on the south – eastern corner of the intersection of Oxford Street and Queen Street, Levin, c.1921. Two men ride their horseswhile another drives his buggy. Two cars are shown in Queen Street, while bicycles lean against the building. Three men are leaning on a lampost outside the front entrance to the building.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

See also 2000.576.0001 (original) and 2000.018.0059

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Black and white photograph.

Personal notes writen on back with ink pen - Main St. Foxton. Remember this place ? The grandest (?) place on earth!! This was taken before Seaview Park was created (?) there was just a plantation of trees there. A year or two ago I think. Perhaps longer.

Main Street, Foxton looking south from Clyde Street, c 1920. Seaview Gardens at the southern end of Main Street have not been developed at the time this photograph was taken.

Black and white photograph.

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