The Borough Council bought this site in 1889. The present building was designed by James Walker and Lloyd C. Love, built by L. McMillan & Co. Ltd. at a cost of £300,000, and was opened on 4 November 1965.
The building’s exterior was designed to b...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 476-482 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Frank Boulton. Frank is a life-long human rights activ...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: October 6, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features fellow City Councillor Renee Dingwall. Born in Samoa, ...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: October 20, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Raza Nayeel and covers his life in Afghanistan, role a...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: April 14, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Haifa.
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: April 7, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features fellow City Councillor Dr. Zulfiqar Butt.
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: March 31, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Wajeha.
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: March 24, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Shabbir.
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: March 17, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Kanchana Seneviratne. Kanchana is the friendly face gr...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: November 3, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Ahmed Obaid. He talks about his experiences of startin...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: November 17, 2021
The 7 to 4 Churchyard Cafe. As of 2019 the site was occupied by Churchyard Physiotherapy.
Creator: Robyn Wilson
Place: 16 Ashley Street, Palmerston North
Date: 2009-03-17T00:00:00+00:00
Architect Joshua Charlesworth, of Wellington, designed Palmerston North’s former Chief Post Office. James Trevor & Sons, of Wellington, erected the building in brick with cement render, after a tender of £5,254. Its foundation stone was laid by Po...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 473-483 Main Street
Date: June 2020
The main desk at Palmerston North City Library with floor markings to assist with social distancing in preparation for re-opening to the public. The library closed to the public on 22 March, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some library staff we...
Creator: Palmerston North City Library
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00+00:00
Terrace End Cemetery Tour hosted by Tina White and Leanne Hickman, part of the 13th Local History Week 2020. This white cross marks the centre of the designated Catholic section where three priests from St. Patrick's Church on Broadway Avenue and ...
Creator: Raphael Cardoso
Place: Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North
Date: 2020
Terrace End Cemetery Tour hosted by Tina White and Leanne Hickman, part of the 13th Local History Week 2020.
Creator: Raphael Cardoso
Place: Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North
Date: 2020
Terrace End Cemetery Tour hosted by Tina White and Leanne Hickman, part of the 13th Local History Week 2020.
Creator: Raphael Cardoso
Place: Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North
Date: 2020
Terrace End Cemetery Tour hosted by Tina White and Leanne Hickman, part of the 13th Local History Week 2020. This image shows the grave of the single known Chinese person buried at Terrace End Cemetery.
Creator: Raphael Cardoso
Place: Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North
Date: 2020
Trees and flax caught fire in The Square at 4.45pm on Friday 16 July, 2020. The fire brigade had it quickly under control, preventing the fire spreading to the adjacent City Council building and restaurants. The source of the fire was unknown and ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Library
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: July 16, 2020
A place that is normally a bustling hive of activity is eerily empty during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Creator: Christina Winitana
Place: 220 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 11, 2020
On the 23rd March 2020 it was announced that in 48 hours, New Zealand was going into an alert level 4 lockdown protect the country against Covid-19. People were instructed to go home and self-isolate, only essential services (such as supermarke...
Creator: L Clifford
Date: March 24, 2020
Charles Macintosh Ross purchased the ‘Bon Marche’ business on this site in 1883. In 1924 plans were made to purchase adjoining land and to erect this building. Wellington firm McMillan Bros. won the job at £27,746.
Arthur Robert Allen and Herbert...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 4 The Square
Date: June 2020
Palmerston North’s multicultural Ethkick tournament is a celebration of the city’s ethnic diversity. This year, the 13th tournament, featured a record 54 teams, including more mixed-gender teams.
The new format, including a new Fair Play Award, i...
Creator: Maria Shiva
Place: Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 20, 2021
Palmerston North’s multicultural Ethkick tournament is a celebration of the city’s ethnic diversity. This year, the 13th tournament, featured a record 54 teams, including more mixed-gender teams.
The new format, including a new Fair Play Award, i...
Creator: Maria Shiva
Place: Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 20, 2021
This building replaced William Park’s bookshop, which burnt down on 16 March 1928. Thorrold-Jaggard designed it in April 1928 for Mrs Emma Childs. Then of Lyall Bay, she was the widow of Tom Childs, former licencee of the nearby Commercial Hotel. ...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 36 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Designed by the city firm J Rex Roberts & Partners, the first stage (overlooking the Square) of the seven-storey Colonial Mutual Life Building opened in late July 1978. The second stage (adjoining Cuba Street) was then still under construction. Br...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 145-148 The Square,
Date: June 2020
This building, which was designed by architectural firm Penty & Lawrence, (Francis Penty and Charles Alexander Lawrence) was erected in 1912, to replace the Union Bank of Australia (built 1881) which had burnt down on 16 September 1910.
The new b...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 1-3 The Square
Date: June 2020
Arthur Robert Allen and his then business partner, Herbert Leslie Hickson, designed this building for Frederick Mowlem in November 1924. Allen and Hickson had designed one long building to stretch between Cuba Street and The Square, however, only ...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 161-163 The Square
Date: June 2020
The Wesley Broadway Church was originally called St Paul's. It was designed by James Bennie in 1911 and was the third Methodist church on this site. In 1989 the two Methodist churches in Palmeston North (the other in Cuba Street) combined to becom...
Creator: Daniel Straman
Place: 264 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 2020-03-23T00:00:00+00:00
Designed by Christchurch architect, Joseph Clarkson Maddison, this highly decorated ‘Second Empire’ building is the only example of the style in Palmerston North. ‘Empire’ in this context refers to the French Empire of Napoleon III.
The four-stor...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 41-44 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Two unidentified engineers in the City Engineer’s Office are credited with the actual design of this building. Erected in brick and concrete with the exterior plastered in a “delicate shade of green,” the Art Deco style building has a band of bas ...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020