Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Mystery surrounds an unsigned painting donated to Manawatu Museum in 1986. It came with memorabilia from the old Collinson and Cunninghame department store. The paintin...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1, 2010

Susan Blair (L) and Tania Kopytko (R) performing at the Collinson and Cunninghame store as part of "Sing a Song of Tables" held during the summer holidays circa 1965.

Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

This photograph is part of a composite panorama of the Square, photographed from the Commercial Hotel, on the corner of Main Street and The Square, on a rainy day. In the foreground is the fountain garden and the gentleman's toilet. On the far lef...

Creator:      L Martin
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This postcard shows The Square as it was around 1915. Note the spire of the old St Patricks Church, Palmerston North to the right of of General Post Office.

Creator:      Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd

Date:          circa 1915

Collinson and Cunninghame were one of the foremost department stores in Palmerston North. They were well-known for their annual Christmas Cave attraction, which occupied 3000 square feet in the basement of the shop. This particular display, entitl...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937 to circa 1946

This photograph shows the corner of the Square that leads on to Broadway Avenue (then Broad Street). Hannah's Footwear (established in Palmerston North, 1899) occupied this site c 1922-1932. Joe Kwong Lee established himself as a fruiterer and gre...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Borad Street (Broadway Avenue), Palmerston North
Date:          1931 to 1932

This shot of Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue) looks toward The Square. It must have been taken before 1929 because of the presence of both the Post Office Hotel and C Smith Ltd - the former burnt down that year and the latter was purchased and r...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1920s

This aerial photograph shows Broadway and The Square. Note the scaffolding on the top of the T&G Building. This building was completed in 1937. The building to the left of the zebra crossing at the bottom of the frame is the Regent Theatre. The fa...

Creator:      The Dominion
Place:          Broadway Avenue, King Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

This photograph shows the staff at Collinson and Cunninghame Ltd in 1939. Back row: Messrs F Hardman, R Wlley, S Warson, R Scales, A Ronberg, L Durrant, B Court, K Tarr, H Radford, P Cowlishaw, R Meekin, Misses G Gray, F Nightinhale, Mrs M Gray, M...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1939

Looking down Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North, from the corner of The Square and Broadway, showing Christmas decorations strung across the street. The photograph features the three buildings that comprised Collinson and Cunninghame Ltd, establish...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1971

The Waldegrave Estate had four buildings, two fronting The Square and two fronting King Street. The property had been owned by the Waldegrave Estate since 1873.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Boradway Side of the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1975

This image shows shoppers in Coleman Mall. It was taken sometime after the $40,000 redevelopment of the street in 1973 but before Collinson and Cunningham was sold to Farmers in 1983.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square from Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date:          1973 to 1983

This view of The Square was probably taken from the top of the Grand Hotel. Some of the visible landmarks are The Lakelet, the cannons, the band rotunda, the observatory and the Te Peeti Te Awe Awe statue.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1911 to 1918

This photograph shows The Square around 1940. Note the railway line running down Main Street.

Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940

This photograph shows the staff at Collinson and Cunninghame Ltd in 1909.

According to the names on the back of the photograph, the subjects are: Extreme left- L.H.C., ? Hooker, Mrs L.H.C. with Keith, Myrtle Cunninghame with Victor; Extreme right...

Creator:      Ernest Denton

Date:          May 1909

A panorama showing the shops situated where Broadway meets The Square. From left can be seen The Square and across the road to Rangitkei Street. On the right can be seen across the road to the Bank of Australasia on the corner of Broadway and The ...

Creator:      R P Moore, Wellington
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1923

This combined annual picnic of Collinson and Cunnighame and Collison and Son was held in the Ashhurst Domain in 1915. Approximately 100 employees spent an enjoyable time partaking in food and engaged in a varied sport programme. Fourteen events we...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          1915

A postcard of the newly built Chief Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street East. Built in 1906, the Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street was Palmerston North’s fourth, and replaced a small wooden building on the...

Creator:      Unknown

Date:          1906 to circa 1910