The Victoria Esplanade gardens were opened in 1897. The phoenix palms were first planted along Victoria Drive in the late 1930s, although many of them have since been replaced.
Creator: Massey University
Place: Palm Drive, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: circa 2000
Cars are parked by flower beds in bloom at the Victoria Esplanade.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
Memorial Park (previously named Fitzroy Park) at Terrace End, was formerly a metal pit used by the Railways Department for ballast, from about 1876-1937. The Palmerston North City Council purchased the 21 acre site in 1938 and developed it into a ...
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 14, 1965
The Square was extensively remodelled for the 1971 centennial celebrations. Additions included a raised flower bed at the Fitzherbert Avenue end and the construction of the Centennial Pavilion.
This photograph was one of four scenes of Palmersto...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1971
View of the Tararua Ranges, from the 3rd floor of the Palmerston North City Library. looking across The Square, with the clock tower in the foreground.
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Date: August 16, 2011
Festival of Cultures Lantern Parade 2018
Creator: Jennie Gutry
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 2018
This postcard has the message, "Will you send me a box of violets for Miss Fraser for the party if it is not too much trouble. Meta". It was addressed to Mrs HY Lethbridge, Ruatuangata, Wangeahu, Wanganui and postmarkes 4 J1 1904. To the left of t...
Creator: Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
The foyer of the Palmerston North Library showing the garden, mosaics and stairs ascending to the first floor. This building operated as the public library in Palmerston North from 1965-1996.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Corner Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1970s
Three floors of the then new library building were fitted with 311 sun-deflectors 25 June 1965. Each screen was two feet high. This building operated as the public library in Palmerston North from 1965-1996.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Corner of Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: June 25, 1965
Looking across The Square and past the Ladies Rest Rooms, then painted green, to the Palmerston North Public Library on the corner of Main Street and The Square. This building served as the library 1965 - 1996
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1971
A view of Main Street from the Hopwood Clock Tower during the early 1960s.
The cleared construction site was to be used for Palmerston North's new 3-storey library on the corner of Main Street and The Square, opposite the Post Office. Constructio...
Creator: Ian Palmer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa July 1963
This building was constructed as the 5th Public Library to operate in Palmerston North. The three-storey library building was opened on 4 November 1965 and served as the city's library until 1996.
Creator: Ian Matheson - Palmerston North City Council
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1973
This building was constructed as the fifth Palmerston North Public Library, opening in 1965 as a multi-purpose complex with shops on the street fronts and upper floors rented out as offices. By 1992 the Library occupied all but the third floor and...
Creator: Matt Ryan
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1988
In 1965 McMillan & Co Ltd, Builders, completed the 5th Public Library to operate in Palmerston North. This three storey library building was opened on 4 November 1965 at a cost of £317,000. The automatic opening doors were a 'new' feature installe...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Corner The Square and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
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 cover of this booklet reads, "Sir J.M. Barrie's Immortal Peter Pan being the joint presentation by the Palmerston North Operatic Society (Inc.), the Manawatu Repertory Society (Inc.) [and] the Palmerston North Little Theatre Society (Inc.) in ...
Creator: Simon Printing Co. Ltd.
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1955
Car racing on a dirt track at Awapuni. The track was located in the Pitama Road / Slacks Road area. Hand coloured print
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Pitama / Slacks Road area, Palmerston North
Date: December 31, 1949
Savage Crescent is in the West End area of Palmerston North, bounded by College Street, Cook Street and Park Road. Fifty acres was bought by the Government for the development, and between then and 1944, 245 state houses were built. For the time, ...
Creator:
Gates to the Kelvin Grove Services Cemetery, commemorating World War One and World War Two.
Kelvin Grove Cemetery, at 118 James Line, Kelvin Grove, is Palmerston North's main cemetery, providing cremation and burial services to the city and its ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 118 James Line, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North
Date: March 6, 2013
The Latino Fiesta was a event held at the Globe Theatre. It was a celebration of Latin culture with dancing, food and performances.
Creator: PNCC
Place: 312 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 14, 2017
Rainbow flag raised in George St October 2018 to mark Manawatū's gay and lesbian rights group (MaLGRA) celebrating the groups 41st anniversary.
Creator: Philippa Elphick
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 18, 2018
This image of nurses holding babies is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a private maternity...
Creator: Joyce Una Baker
Date: 1957
IPU Drum Team
Creator: Rob Edwards Photographer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 24, 2018
Palmy Unleashed, Pineapple Studios and One Night Only organised for performers from Palmerston North to play for passersby in this street festival.
Creator: PNCC
Place: Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 14, 2018
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps, who trained there ah...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
The City Library was originally constructed as the C M Ross Co. Ltd department store, in The Square in 1928. This window on the third floor, overlooking The Square, was from the original building and was retained when renovating the building as a ...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1996
Pink and blue triangles were painted on Main Street and George Street July 2018 as part of a traffic calming initiative.
Creator: Keegan Aplin-Thane
Place: Main and George Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 21, 2018
Located on the corner of Jackeytown Rd and State Highway 56, this rocket was constructed to commemorate the settlement's centennary.
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: corner of Jackeytown Rd and State Highway 56
Date: April 29, 1963
The Fitchett Street Convent was the third built for the Sisters of Mercy in Palmerston North. It was designed by Clere and Clere and built by Trevor Bros in 1925 -1926. It was originally part of a complex of buildings, with two primary schools and...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitchett Street, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1982
This building was constructed as the 5th Public Library to operate in Palmerston North. The three-storey library building was opened on 4 November 1965 and served as the city's library until 1996.
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 31, 1966