This postcard wallet shows a variety of Palmerston North views, including The Victoria Esplanade, a train going through the Manawatū Gorge, a panoramic view of The Square and the portion of The Square between Coleman Mall and Church Street West.
This postcard has an image of the middle of The Square surrounded by a calendar for the year 1911.
This hand-tinted postcard shows three men hiking through the Turitea Stream.
The Palmerston North Public Hospital was constructed at a cost of £3,700, and opened in November 1893. It was designed by Ernest Larcomb, the builders were Mr G. Carter and the first board chairman was George Snelson. Initially the staff consisted of Doctors McIntyre and Porter, Miss Ellen Dougherty, Matron and two nurses. The current hospital remains on the same site.
Looking across the Fitzherbert Bridge from what is now Anzac Park. To the immediate left, across the bridge, is the Victoria Esplanade.
This postcard shows Palmerston North's Racecourse. Note that construction work appears to be happening in the grandstand second from left.
This postcard shows the T. Parkins Butchery wagon. Thomas Parkins had a butchery in The Square in the early 1900s, though it had become E Hampton Butchers by around 1910.
This postcard looks from The Lakelet towards the south-east section of The Square, between the corners of Main Street East and Fitzherbert Avenue.
A flock of sheep block Awahuri Road. Behind them gentleman on horseback, a bicyclist and a coach wait to pass. Taken around the Kitchener Park area.
A "posting album" containing post cards of some Palmerston North scenes, including the Post Office, The Square, the Hospital and the Railway Station. It includes a handwritten note that reads, "With lots of love, Mal [or Mae]".
This postcard booklet claims to have views of Palmerston North that are the "finest yet published". The front indicates that 12 views were originally included, but only 5 remain.
A fête for the Palmerston North Public Hospital being held at the A&P Showgrounds. Crowds of onlookers are shown in the grandstand, while a variety of horse drawn buggies are visible, as well as a bicycle made to resemble a boat, are displayed on the grounds.
A Congregational Church was built in Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue) c1900, close to the intersection of Princess Street. This building was demolished in the 1970s and the Congregational Church is now situated on the corner of Broadway Avenue and Victoria Street.
This postcard looks towards the section of The Square between Main Street West and Coleman Mall. The base of the fountain that once stood in that section of The Square is just visible in front of the Bon Marche.
A colourised postcard of The Square was taken after 1902, when the statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe was constructed, but before 1907, when the small Rotunda was shifted to the Victoria Esplanade Gardens.
This postcard shows The Square as it was around 1950-1955.
This hand-tinted postcard shows the Manawatū Gorge around 1900.
To the left of the Band Rotunda is the original All Saints Church. It was replaced with the current brick structure in 1914-1915. On the corner of Church Street and The Square is the Provincial Hotel. It burned down 3 January 1906 and was replaced by the Grand Hotel, which still stands in The Square today [2017]. The fact that the three-storey Coles Building has not replaced the two storey wooden building on the far right suggests that the photograph was taken around 1902.
This booklet of Palmerston North views includes All Saints Church, The Square, Massey Agricultural College, Boys High School, Girls High School and Rangitikei Street. It was printed by Dawson Printing Company Ltd, Auckland.
This postcard shows the corner of Broad Street (left-hand side), now Broadway Avenue, and The Square (right-hand side) around 1910. One of the balconies of the old Royal Hotel can be seen on the left-hand side of the image.
This postcard looks over The Lakelet to the section of The Square between the corners of Fitzherbert Avenue and Church Street West.
A punt operated from from 1871 to 1886, at which point the first wooden bridge across the river was built. The postcard is looking towards the Tararua Ranges.
This postcard photograph was taken from the Lakelet quadrant in The Square, looking across to the corner of Church Street West. Some features include (from left): the domed structure is the observatory, built 1906 and demolished in 1938; the cannon was one of two placed in The Square 1909; the original Lakelet Bridge, built 1909; the brick All Saints Church was completed 1914-1915; the Grand Hotel was built 1906.
The Municipal Opera House, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected for the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and remodelled both inside and out in 1955. It was sold by the PNCC to a businessman in 1996 and demolished. The postcard bears no stamp or date, so the date is based on other postcards that show the same scene.
This booklet was intended to be posted as a souvenir of Palmerston North. Views include The Hopwood Clock Tower, Milson Airport, Memorial Park, Esplanade Gardens, All Saints Church, Broadway Avenue, Central Post Office, Massey Agricultural College and Palmerston North Art Gallery.
A boy stands by the Band Rotunda, with the newly constructed Post Office, on the corner of Main Street, behind. This first Band Rotunda was built in The Square in 1899. It was shifted to The Esplanade in 1907, and replaced by another, which was demolished to make way for the Hopwood Clock Tower in 1956.
The fountain in the foreground of this postcard once stood is in western quadrant of The Square, in front of where the Central Library now sits [2017]. It is shown here before the Coronation monument for Edward VII was added on top (1925). The building with the clock tower is the former Post Office. Built in 1906, it was Palmerston North’s fourth post office. The tower was removed in 1942 after the Wairarapa earthquake. In 1988, when Telecom and Postbank became separate entities, the building ceased to be the Post Office. It currently operates as a bar.
The observatory was 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 usefullness. The Lakelet constructed 1909, can be seen to the left of the observatory.
The sign on the side of the image reads, "Notice. Any Person riding a Bicycle, lighting a Fire, Cutting, Damaging or removing any Tree, Fern or Shrub or Structure within this Reserve, will be Prosecuted. By Order R N Keeling, Town Clerk. P.N. Borough Council." Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897. The bush walk was probably originally laid out c1900-1905.
This postcard looks down Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue) from The Square.
