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Broadway Avenue, originally Broad Street, Palmerston North, was renamed, at the instigation of G H Bennett, bookseller, and other retailers, by Borough Council resolution in March 1926. The T and G Building, seen to the left was completed in 1937 and the Regent Theatre, to the right, was built 1929.

Identification

Object type
Image
Date
circa 1940
Digitisation ID
2007N_ST129_STR_0060
Held In
Coolstore

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Place
Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North

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Taxonomy

Tags
1940s,
bennetts,
black and white,
broadway avenue,
e r wix electrician,
photographs,
regent theatre,
streets,
t & g tower,
transport,
vehicles,
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