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Description

The buildings on Church Street West are: Evening Standard building - Erected after the 1891 fire and was replaced in 1937. The newspaper moved in to this building between 1903-1910; The Council Chambers were housed in the old Colonial Bank of New Zealand (beside the Church) - it is now the location of Square Edge; All Saints Church was built in 1878 (its spire erected in 1882). The present brick building was constructed in 1914; The Grand Hotel was built in 1906; The Manawatu Daily Times moved into this space in the 1890s and remained there until 1916. The small building on the left is an observatory; the gun was placed in the Square May 1909 and the lakelet was constructed in October 1909.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Sq 152
Date
1909 to 1913
Digitisation ID
2014P_Sq152_008887
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
1910s,
all saints church,
black and white,
bridge,
butterfly,
cannon,
evening standard building,
grand hotel,
municipal chambers,
photographs,
the square,
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