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
This image was taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but was not published. It depicts former United States president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at Victoria Esplanade Victo...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
This image was taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but was not published. It depicts former United States president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at Victoria Esplanade Victo...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
This image was taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but was not published. It depicts former United States president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at Victoria Esplanade Victo...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
These images were taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but were not published. They depict former United States president Jimmy Carter with Palmerston North Mayor Brian Elwood on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
These images were taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but were not published. They depict former United States president Jimmy Carter with Palmerston North Mayor Brian Elwood on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
These images were taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but were not published. They depict former United States president Jimmy Carter with Palmerston North Mayor Brian Elwood on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
This image was taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but was not published. It depicts former United States president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at Victoria Esplanade Victo...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
These images were taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but were not published. They depict former United States president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at Victoria Esplanade ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
This image was taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but was not published. It depicts former United States president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at Victoria Esplanade Victo...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
These images were taken by the Evening Standard on the 11th of February 1984 but were not published. They depict former United States president Jimmy Carter with Palmerston North Mayor Brian Elwood on a tour of the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden at ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1984
The camping ground was established in 1925, adjacent to the Victoria Esplanade. It is now called the Palmerston North Holiday Park.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planni...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Dittmer Drive, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960 to circa 1979
Finale event in the Victoria Esplanade for children who had completed the programme. The Summer Reading programme gets kids to come in to the one of the Palmerston North libraries to report about books they had read.
Creator:
Date: January 21, 2016
Cars are parked by flower beds in bloom at the Victoria Esplanade.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Frank (Frances Leslie) Berry.
The band rotunda was situated at the Fitzherbert Avenue end of the Esplanade. Originally built in The Square in 1898 it was moved to the Esplanad...
Creator: Berry Family
Place: The Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1910s
This plan is titled, "Plan of SUBDIVISIONS OF LOT: 262 D.P. 666 HOKOWHITU Nos 5,6 &7"
Visible roads include Scandia Street [Albert Street], Jickell Street.
Creator: G.L. R. Scott [Surveyor]
Place: Scandia Street [Albert Street]; Jickell Street;
Date: May 1902
This plan is titled, "Plan of Land to be dedicated for a Road through Lot 52, D.P. 2494
Surveyed for the Palmerston North Borough Council. being pt. Sec. 1536, Town of Palmerston North"
Visible roads include Jickell Street, Centennial Avenue.
Creator: H. R. Farquhar [Surveyor]
Place: Jickell Street; Centennial Avenue;
Date: November 1923
This plan is titled, "Part Lot 3 D.P 1332 Pumping Station Site for Palmerston North Borough Council."
Visible roads include Jickell Street, .
Creator: C. T. Salmon [Surveyor]
Place: Jickell Street;
Date: November 1924
This pool was presented to the children of Palmerston North in 1937 by the Returned Services Association (RSA). Art Deco in design, the pool is shaped to resemble the RSA Badge.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's P...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 196X/197X
This pool was presented to the children of Palmerston North in 1937 by the Returned Services Association (RSA). Art Deco in design, the pool is shaped to resemble the RSA Badge.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's P...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 196X/197X
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 to 1978 and Senior Planning Officer (Design and Development) from 1978-...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 196X/197X
The Esplanade "...aviary was established in 1955. It consists of a twenty two cage complex housing over 55 varieties of birds with an array of colourful, native and exotic species including the Blue Indian Ringneck, the Kea, the Kaka, the Bleeding...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 196X/197X
The Esplanade Rose Garden (now known as the Dugald MacKenzie Rose Garden) was opened in 1968. The garden is also home of the New Zealand Rose Society International Rose Trial Grounds.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Counc...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1968/197X
This video shows local events that took place in Palmerston North in the mid 1930s. Subjects include chariot racing, fun in the Esplanade, 50th jubilee of Palmerston North parade in 1937 and footage of a Springbok vs Manawatu match. NOTE: There is...
Creator:
Date: 1935 to 1937
This plan is undated and is presumed to have not been realised.
There was a tea kiosk in the Victoria Esplanade from 1909 to 1943. It was not replaced until the original post office building was moved from Main Street to the gardens in 1989, to ...
Creator: J Walker (architect) for PNCC
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
This pool was presented to the children of Palmerston North in 1937 by the Returned Services Association. It is of an art deco design, in the shape of the RSA badge.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1937
These images are part of the Frank Goldingham collection and were possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. They may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1960
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 4 School milk, health camps and 'Gunn's Gospel of Grub' / Margaret Tennant
p. 13 'This lovely home'. An account of 'Brabourne', 149 Monmouth Street, Feilding / Gerry Barton
p. 26 Stepping out of the ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2020
The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activites, and events. This month's issue includes: Christmas in the Square; Awapuni Landfill; conservation; weed...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 2001
A young girl coming down a 'rocket' slide at the playground of the Esplanade Gardens. Believed to be the photographer's daughter Joan MacKay and her brother Keith MacKay at the top of the slide.
Creator: John MacKay
Place: The Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1963