Canon in Square - Keep off the Grass!
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This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Frank (Frances Leslie) Berry. It shows a small child ignoring the sign to keep off the grass, compelled to view the Butterfly lakelet up close.
Visible in the background is the Occidental Hotel which stood on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square. Captain J Mitchell was proprietor of the second Occidental Hotel, which replaced a very similar building burnt down in September of 1891. This hotel was also destroyed by a fire in 1927.
In the foreground is one of two cannons installed in the Square as surplus from the defence department in 1909. Both were removed and scrapped in the 1940s.
Just visible behind the cannon is an observatory erected in the south-west quadrant of The Square in 1906. It was demolished in 1938 after repeated bouts of vandalism and the increase in light pollution in the Square lessened its usefulness.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- 2023-25
- Date
- 1916 to 1918
- Digitisation id
- 2023G_2023-25_041820
- Format
- Glass negative
- Held in
- Coolstore
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Creation
- Created By
- Berry Family
- Place
- Corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square
Object rights
- License
- By Attribution Alone
Taxonomy
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