Shown here is a tearoom at Rosco's Dept Store ready for a civic reception for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The wall and column paneling are made from rosewood.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1954

Shown here is the Queens table decorated ready for a reception in the Rosco tearooms [now the City Library].

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1954

Shown here is the Queen's table and an table for other dignitaries decorated ready for a reception in the Rosco tearooms [now the City Library 2020].

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1954

The Rosco tearooms are seen here decorated for the Royal Dinner given for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          January 7, 1954

In 1927-1928, this new department store was built, replacing the three buildings that comprised C M Ross Co. Ltd on The Square, Palmerston North.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1930

This photograph looks from the top of the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd (T&G) building westwards towards Coleman Place (now Coleman Mall). Roscos Department Store is on the left and next to that is the Union...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1940

Three buildings made up the C M Ross (Roscos) department store in Palmerston North, linking through to George Street and another building on the corner of George Street and Coleman Place. The building in the centre is the original "Bon Marche" sho...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1917

Celebrations on the 50th birthday of the establishment of the C M Ross store in Palmerston North were held. The cake is pictured in the tearooms on the 2nd floor and was cut at a special morning tea.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1933

C M Ross Co Ltd (Roscos) was a large department store situated on The Square of Palmerston North. The picnic group features many young women staff members, and some children.

Creator:      H Billens and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1916

A sale notice supplement in the 'Manawatu Daily Times', put out by the C M Ross Co Ltd department store on The Square, advertising clothing and furnishings and their prices. From the archive of 'C M Ross & Co Ltd'.

Creator:      C M Ross Co. Ltd
Date:          circa 1930 to circa 1939