The photograph for this postcard was taken soon after the opening of the new Palmerston North Post Office in 1906. It was built on the site of previous one, on the corner of Main Street and The Square. The building was later extended along Main St...
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 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 w...
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1912
"A view of the south-western corner of The Square towards Coleman Place. Down the street, through the middle of The Square can be seen from left: Childs Hotel; Henderson’s Chemist; A de Luen and Co. Tailors; Hepworths; C M Ross Bon Marche store, B...
Creator: L Martin, Bookseller
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
This postcard of the Square shows the South side of the Square, from Church Street West to Main Street West. The buildings, from left, are: the old All Saints Church, The Grand Hotel, The Daily Times, Watchorn's Jewellers, R Hannah Bootmaker, Will...
Creator: W Park No W P 10
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906 to circa 1910
Written on the postcard is "This is the water fall where Palmerston gets it town water supply from you will see me sitting by myself in a white shirt this is the place where we was going in the motor car taken with my camera Bert." Bert Albert is...
Place: Turitea, Palmerston North
Date: 1915
Colour postcard showing buses travelling arund The Square.
Place: Palmerston North
The caption on the reverse reads: "The statue of Te Peeti te Awe Awe was erected in the Square in 1907 by Te Peeti's sister, Erenui, to face the rising sun. Te Peeti was the famous chieftain of the Rangitane tribe who fought as a loyalist in the L...
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Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
This postcard shows a view of Rangitikei Street from the Square. The building on the right is Crawford's Royal Hotel, which was established in Palmerston North about 1871. Over the years the building was repeatedly enlarged and improved. In 1915, ...
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
Looking across the rock garden and fountain in The Square to the Bank of New Zealand on the corner of Rangitikei Street. The BNZ was built in 1915 and Coronation Fountain shifted to the pond in 1925.
Tanner Bros Ltd Maoriland Photographic Series...
Creator: Tanner Bros Ltd
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
The junction of Duke Street (now Princess Street) and Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue) is in the foreground of this colour postcard. The large house on the left stands on the site of the present "Princeway Buildings", on the corner of Princess S...
Creator: G H Bennett and Co.
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
"The General Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street. Tanner Bros. Ltd Photographic series, no. 2015."
Creator: Tanner Bros. Ltd
Place: Corner of Main Street and The Square
Date: circa 1915 to circa 1920
This hand-tinted postcard shows the Manawatū Gorge around 1900.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1900
The statue on the left of the photograph is part of the commemoration of Edward VII, built in August 1902. The top of it is now part of the fountain that once graced the area in front of the old DIC building (now the City Library). The fountain no...
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
Private Alfred Joseph (Joe) Marshall served with the New Zealand Medical Corps including on board the Hospital Ship Maheno. This postcard depicts a woman in traditional Maltese dress. The inscription reads: "On Active Service 3/2784
A J Marsh...
Date: February 1, 1917
A postcard featuring a hand-drawn sketch of a village in France surrounded by trees. It was written by Henry Ward, who served with the New Zealand Medical Corps, No. 3 Field Ambulance, from March 1917 to March 1919, to Eva Eastwood, who he married...
Creator: Henry Ward
Place: France
Date: 1917 to 1919
A group of about 25 army recruits sit in a grandstand, presumably at the Awapuni Racecourse which was home to one of New Zealand’s largest training camps in World War One, and was the sole location for training the New Zealand Medical Corps staff....
Date: February 1918
A group of about 25 soldiers with enamel mugs. This postcard was sent by Henry Ward, who served with the New Zealand Medical Corps, No. 3 Field Ambulance, from March 1917 to March 1919. The message reads: "This is some of our section at Gargle Par...
Date: November 1917
Private Alfred Joseph (Joe) Marshall served with the New Zealand Medical Corps including on board the Hospital Ship Maheno. This postcard depicts a domed church in Port Said, Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea. The inscription reads: "On Active Servi...
Date: 1917 to 1919
Private Alfred Joseph (Joe) Marshall served with the New Zealand Medical Corps including on board the Hospital Ship Maheno. This postcard depicts the Royal Palace, Malta. The inscription reads: "On Active Service 3/2784
A J Marshall
NZMC
...
Date: circa 1917
Private Alfred Joseph (Joe) Marshall served with the New Zealand Medical Corps including on board the Hospital Ship Maheno. This postcard depicts a man climbing a palm tree, possibly in India or Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The inscription reads: "On Activ...
Date: 1917 to 1919
Private Alfred Joseph (Joe) Marshall served with the New Zealand Medical Corps including on board the Hospital Ship Maheno. This postcard depicts fishing boats in Port Said, Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea. The inscription reads: "On Active Servic...
Date: 1917 to 1919
Private Alfred Joseph (Joe) Marshall served with the New Zealand Medical Corps including on board the Hospital Ship Maheno. This postcard depicts the harbour of Malta, showing two warships in port. The inscription reads: "On active service 3/278...
Date: circa 1917
A group of soldiers pose outside the Wesleyan Soldiers Institute, while some of the women from the Institute stand in the doorway. During the First World War the Epsom Methodist Church set up the Wesleyan Soldiers Institute, a forces canteen, in a...
Place: Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Date: January 1918
Soldiers carrying rifles march along a rode, following behind a small boy who rides a white horse. This postcard was sent by Robert (Bob) Edward Allen Eastwood (1895-1973),who served with the 4th Battalion 3 NZ Rifle Brigade from May 1916 until Ju...
Date: circa 1916
Robert (Bob) Edward Allen Eastwood (1895-1973), served with the 4th Battalion 3 NZ Rifle Brigade from May 1916 until July 1918, when he was discharged on medical grounds. This postcard presumably depicts the military camp where he undertook his tr...
Date: circa 1916
A photograph of a soldier in uniform wearing a gas mark. This postcard was sent by Robert (Bob) Edward Allen Eastwood (1895-1973),who served with the 4th Battalion 3 NZ Rifle Brigade from May 1916 until July 1918, when he was discharged on medical...
Date: 1916 to 1917
Robert (Bob) Edward Allen Eastwood (1895-1973), served with the 4th Battalion 3 NZ Rifle Brigade from May 1916 until July 1918, when he was discharged on medical grounds. The inscription on this postcard reads: "What makes me so cranky round the e...
Creator: W.W. Pasco and L. R. Allum, The Clock Tower Studio, Epsom
Place: Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Date: circa 1916 to circa 1918
Six soldiers, one on crutches, stand in front of the Mount Felix estate building, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. This was requisitioned to serve as the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital, which operated from 1915 to 1920. The inscription on the reverse...
Place: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom
Date: circa 1917 to circa 1919
The front of this postcard shows a group of recruits erecting tents and attempting to camouflage them with vegetation. It was written by Henry Ward, who served with the New Zealand Medical Corps, No. 3 Field Ambulance, from March 1917 to March 191...
Place: Awapuni
Date: November 1917
The front of this postcard shows about forty soldiers posed informally in front of tents. It was written by Henry Ward, who served with the New Zealand Medical Corps, No. 3 Field Ambulance, from March 1917 to March 1919, to Eva Eastwood, who he ma...
Place: Awapuni
Date: circa 1917