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Description

Looking down Main Street West towards Coleman Place (now Coleman Mall). Walkley's Commercial and Family Hotel was built in 1881. It was previously occupied by the Commercial Hotel. The Standard building alongside the hotel is the first home of the Manawatu Evening Standard, from 1880 until 1900 when it burnt down. Alexander Ferguson's store and Snelson's Peoples Mart are also in the photo. The building on the corner is the Bank of Australasia, built in 1881.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Sq 1312
Date
January 1882 to March 1882
Digitisation ID
2014N_Sq132_008606
Held In
"Coolstore"

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Taxonomy

Tags
butchery,
children,
coleman mall,
dog,
grocer,
hitching post,
ironmonger,
photographs,
the square,
west,
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