Argosy Studio (Argosy Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 25, 1975
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Free Gift Booklet and Programme of Events No. 4394
From the cover page: "Palmerston North Celebrations to Mark the Rise of Palmerston North to City Status 1930. A Series of Entertaining Events e...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1930
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) spent six weeks touring New Zealand in 1895, part of a world speaking tour. On 2 December 1895, he gave a lecture to a packed audienc...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 7, 2010
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition but was not published.
Caption: “Photorama recently had a look behind the scenes at the Transportation department and now shows you some of the things a Traffic Officer doe...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition but was not published.
Caption: “Photorama recently had a look behind the scenes at the Transportation department and now shows you some of the things a Traffic Officer doe...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
A Palmerston North street view of the Club Hotel on Church Street. The PDC with the Kiwi Bacon Kiwi, can be seen at the right of the picture. The Club Hotel was established in 1882, and these buildings which remains were just some of a number of s...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1970s
This photograph of The Square was probably taken from one of the top storeys of the CM Ross Building (Roscos Department Store) and showcases some of the changes that have taken place in The Square since the 1940s. Note the lack of the Hopwood Cloc...
Creator: Royal Studios, Marton
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940
This photograph was taken from the corner of Rangitikei Street. For many years The Square was divided into 5 sections - four quadrants and a central strip that the railway line ran through. This quadrant is nearest the Broadway corner, and one of ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1907 to circa 1908
This image is from a series taken around 1957 that shows a view of The Square from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower. This one shows the corner of Church Street East and The Square, including the PDC building and the Club Hotel.
Creator: C H James
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1957
This colour photograph is of the corner of Church Street East and The Square. The large three-storey building in the centre of the photograph is the PDC building. This building was constructed 1929-1930. In 1956 the PDC was taken over by the Manaw...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1956
This image looks south-west along Church Street.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Church Street East, Palmerston North
Date: January 1977
Shown here is The Square looking south-west towards Fitzherbert Street from the corner of Church Street East. This photograph is one of many purchased from the Muir and Moodie Collection held at the Dominion Museum in Wellington. Note the bird cag...
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1903 to 1912
The Bank of Australasia, now the ANZ Bank, can be seen at the corner of the Square and Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue). The jewellers Gerrand is next to it, occupying part of the ground floor of the same building. J B Gerrand and Sons Ltd moved...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1920s
O'Donnells delivery truck towing a wedding cake themed float in the Jubilee celebrations parade, on Church Street, Palmerston North
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1952
This photograph shows an interesting perspective of Church Street East and The Lakelet. On the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square is the Public Library. This building was the fourth public library in Palmerston North and was purpose built...
Creator: K H Shea
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1937
Military personnel stand to attention as the funeral procession passes. The funeral is for the Air Force personnel lost on 25 November 1945 during a routine meteorological flight out of Ohakea. On March 19, 1949 the wreck of the RNZAF Ventura aero...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
Panoramic view taken from close to the railway line in the centre of The Square, Palmerston North, with Main Street East on the left, the Church Street East corner at centre and Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue) on the right. The photograph was tak...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1895 to 1902
Taken before 1927, as the tower of the Occidental Hotel is still visible next to the All Saints Church spire. The Grand Hotel is visible on the right of the photograph.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1920s
This 'Real Photograph' postcard shows the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the with the Occidental Hotel in the background. The Occidental Hotel was originally built in 1881 and burnt down in 1891. After being rebuilt, it was again destr...
Creator: F G R
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
The corner of Church Street and The Square as seen from the Hopwood Clock Tower during the early 1960s.
Creator: Ian Palmer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This photo may have been taken from the top of the Grand Hotel on the corner of The Square and Church Street West. The buildings from right, are: The Bank of New Zealand on the right hand side of Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue); the second Occiden...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1907 to 1910
This photographs was created as part of a series of eight photographs showin scenes of Palmerston North. Shown here is the PDC building in The Square, the Premiere Drapery Company was a successful business operating for many years in The Square.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1930s
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 canno...
Creator: Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd
Date: circa 1915
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...
Creator: Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd
Date: circa 1915