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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 photograph looks down Broadway with the Bank of Australasia on the corner and the T and G Building beside it (built 1937).

Identification

Object type
Image
Date
1940
Digitisation ID
2007N_ST101_STR_0051
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
1940s,
black and white,
broad street,
broadway avenue,
brothers,
photographs,
streets,
t & g mutual life society,
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