This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. It was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. This image must come from 1905, before the clock face had been installed. The cl...

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Awapuni Lagoon was one of 5 original lagoons in Palmerson North when pakeha arrived for settlement. It was later drained. Written in pencil on the old print are the words: “Awapuni Lagoon 1881. Returning to Pah from Waldegraves”. Note the old wh...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1881

Map showing the sections allotted to the Scandinavians and Roadmen in the township of Palmerston.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1872

A punt operated from from 1871 to 1886 when the first wooden bridge across the river was built. The photograph is looking towards the Tararua Ranges. People identified as Mrs Septuagesima Shailer and her children, and ferryman William Allwright o...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1884

The Fitzherbert East School, near Palmerston North, was built in 1889 by Messrs Perrin, Oakley and Meyrick, and opened to the first pupils March 19th 1889. The school as first built comprised of a single classroom and porch. The photograph shows c...

Creator:      Attwood and Co.
Place:          169 Fitzherbert East Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890 to circa 1899

The tableau was part of the entertainment staged at an All Saints Ladies Guild Evening at the Theatre Royal, 12th and 13th of September 1888. The tableau represented a group of statues called 'The Sculptor's Dream' and was lit by coloured lights. ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1888

A gathering of early settlers at an unknown occasion. (From left) Back Row: Mrs Bolt, V Monrad, Mrs E K Collins, J Perrin, P Scheidt, J Rush, Mrs G G Richardson, E O Olsen, G Richardson. D Rowland, O Monrad, J McMasters, J H Wylds, A McDowell, Mrs...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1901

Designated Class 'A', this locomotive was one of three small tank locomotives built by the Lion Foundry and fitted with outside Stephenson link motion. The 'Skunk' and the 'Wallaby' were the first railway locomotives to run a scheduled service bet...

Creator:      Charles Mariboe
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1876

This photograph was part of a set of smaller photographs, showing portraits of the firemen in uniform. The following information is found on the back of the photograph: 'Present to Mrs D.H. MACARTHUR [wife of the Member of Parliament for Palmersto...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1888

These businesses were on the eastern side of The Square, between Church Street and Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue). Taken from The Square the staff of both stores are outside and the horse and delivery cart. In 1891 a fire, which started in next d...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1891

This home, probably in the vicinity of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company's line between Longburn and Wellington, consisted of a tent with a "lean-to" kitchen of sacking and timber slabs. The family is unidentified.

Creator:      Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington
Date:          circa 1880 to circa 1899

Henry Thomas Flyger's store was situated on the north-west side of Main Street east, on the railway line, near Alfred Street, on part of section 169 of Palmerston North. It was probably the only store at Terrace End during the 1880s. This photogra...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Corner of Main and Alfred Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1884

This photograph looks south-west. The old goods shed is directly opposite the station building. A train engine can be seen making its way down the track in the centre of the photograph. On the right hand side are businesses on George Street. This ...

Creator:      Schwarz [?]
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1895

Compare with 2014N_Sq20_008572, taken in 1893. Possibly taken just before the construction of the two storey wooden building which housed Jubal Flemming's Hairdressing Salon (see 2014N_Sq20_008572). Buildings, from left: The Manawatu Farmer's Co-o...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          The Square and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1887

The Railway Station moved from the centre of The Square to Main Street in 1890. The photograph is taken looking towards The Square and as the Chief Post Office is not yet built the photograph is taken prior to 1906. The photograph shows passengers...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1895

Walkley's Commercial Hotel can be seen on the left of the photograph. It stood on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square. The people are waiting on the train platform at the Railway Station. The Post Office and Telegraph stands next to th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885 to circa 1889

The building with four chimneys and the smaller building to its right appear to have been added after 1885, based on photographs of this location taken earlier than that date.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885 to circa 1889

Peter Gray, a hermit, lived with his cat and numerous dogs in this hut which he built on the banks of the Manawatu River, Hokowhitu.

Creator:      John Perrin (Junior)
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Mr Rosanowski wrote that “the photo was taken off Boundary Road into the aerodrome section”. This would indicate that that is near the site of the present Palmerston North Airport, near Milson Line. The tramline in the photograph evidently ran a...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Milson, Palmerston North
Date:          1883

The Palmerston North Hospital was constructed in 1895. A group of nurses and patients are on the verandah of No. 2 (women’s) ward. It contained five beds and was known as the Wilsher Ward, having been built from money left by a Mr Wilsher.

Creator:      Billens and Bunting
Place:          Heretaunga Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1894

The first Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Show was held at the showgrounds in Pascal Street, Palmerston North, November 1886. S Abrahams , who signed the photograph, was a local businessman and served as a Palmerston North Boroug...

Creator:      Solomon Abrahams
Place:          The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date:          1899

This photograph includes (from right): the Occidental Hotel (on the corner Fitzherbert Street); Fred Chatch (importer); the "British Restaurant"; unidentified building; unidentified ironmongers; unidentified building; unidentified butchers; C M Sn...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1880 to circa 1899

Buildings, from left: [1] Mowlem's Land Agency; [2] Palmerston Furniture Warehouse (Hounslow and Voigt); [3] Wollerman - "wines, groceries, spirits"; [4] D.M. George, draper; [5] Town Hall; [6] Bank of New Zealand, on the corner of Fitzherbert Str...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          since 1881

A large crowd gathered to plant a tree in the middle of the triangular picket enclosure (centre of photo), in Broad Street (Broadway Avenue) near the junction with The Square, Palmerston North. The Bank of Australasia is in the background.

Creator:      H S Stewart
Place:          Broadway Avenue and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          August 4, 1892

The “Buffet” was a non-licensed boarding house and restaurant, established by Samuel Dawick, who died in 1888, and carried on by his widow and sons. It was one of the best known businesses in Palmerston North. This building was built in the 1890s ...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1898

A family group play in the back yard of their home. It is thought this may have been taken at “Tuatahi, eastern side of Williams Terrace, Fitzherbert Hill, Palmerston North, built in the early 1900s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This business was located on section 263 (once occupied by The National Bank, now the ANZ Bank, on the corner of Cuba Street and Rangitikei Street). The building was destroyed by fire in September 1894, but was subsequently rebuilt in Cuba Street ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1891

The road through the Gorge was built 1871-1872. This photograph, which looks west towards Ashhurst was taken after the construction of the telegraph line in 1879-1880, but prior to rail transport through the Gorge.

Creator:      Burton Bros.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

The town can be seen across the cleared and fenced land of what is now the hospital site. Construction of Palmerston North Public Hospital did not start until 1893. The spire of the Catholic Church in Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue), built in 1...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

The first Fitzherbert Bridge constructed in 1877 crosses the Manawatu River at Palmerston North. Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue) can be seen running to the centre of the town.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date:          1884