Aerial of The Square, Palmerston North

Description

At top right is Rangitikei Street, on the corner of The Square. Through the centre of The Square can be seen the railway line, which ran down Main Street, on both sides of The Square, until it closed in 1964. The slight bend in the rail line in The Square, as seen, was paid for by the Palmerston North Borough Council to accommodate the war memorial in the centre (indistinct), when it built in 1926. The Hopwood clock tower, erected 1957, can be seen without its permanent cross (not added until 1981). Distinctly can be seen the four quadrants and the centre strip, divided by the roads which ran into The Square for a long period of time. Today (2014) The Square has returned to its original one block of land.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Sq 435

Date

circa 1960

Digitisation id

2014N_Sq435_008728

Held in

Coolstore