At this point in time The Square was divided into 5 areas - 4 quadrants and a strip running through the centre for the railway line. In the right foreground can be seen the extension of Rangitikei Street into The Square. The Bank of New Zealand is...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1918 to circa 1922

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 3 July, 1963. "With the rapid expansion which is at present taking place in the city, the construction of new buildings is inclined to be overlooked. With space becoming...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1963-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

This photograph of The Square was taken in the vicinity of the Manawatu Standard building. In the foreground is the Lakelet (or Butterfly Lake), followed by the Phoenix Palms that once lived in The Square. The tall building to the right is the The...

Creator:      Joe Sing Candids, Palmerston North
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1974

This photograph shows the view up Main Street East, along the railway line that once ran through The Square. It was probably taken from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower (completed in 1957). A railway service between Wellington and Palmerston Nor...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          since 1956

Palmerston North held its 75th Jubilee Celebrations during the week of 15th March 1952. Shown here is an old Wolseley packed with costumed people taking part in the parade. The building to the right of the car is the Waldegrave Building, still sta...

Creator:      Clarice Parlane
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          March 15, 1952

R Hannah and Co. Ltd shoe shop was situated on the edge of The Square, in the Waldegrave building from 1932. Hannah's began in Palmerston North in 1899 and occupied various premises as the business grew in size.

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

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 photograph was taken from the top of the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd (T&G) building.

Creator:      F A Tier
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1950

This photograph was taken from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower when it was being constructed in 1956.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1956

This postcard is addressed to the Blarambergs from A W Koehlev and dated 12/2/1914. The photograph must have been taken before this date because the Lakelet is missing - it was added in 1909 by the Beautifying Society. The three-storeyed building ...

Creator:      Wilson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1906 to circa 1907

This photograph shows a flurry of activity on Broadway Avenue. From left: Old Waldegrave building built 1894; Hannahs building, occupied by Leopold and Simmons, seen just before demolition (the new Waldegrave building was then constructed on this ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1932

These photographs comprise a 7 part panorama taken from the top of what was the Public Library on the corner of Main Street East. It shows what The Square looked like at 9.30 am on a very clear, windy morning in the winter of 1983.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1983

This photograph of The Square looks along the eastern side of The Square, from near the Church Street corner, past Main Street to Broadway. The building in the centre is the Post Office on the corner of Main Street. While this building still stand...

Creator:      Evening Post, Wellington
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

Looking across the lakelet quadrant of The Square in Palmerston North. The building labelled Municipal Offices was originally the offices of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand. The Palmerston North Borough Council first leased tne building in 1900 a...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1911

This photograph of The Square Taken was in the vicinity of the Evening Standard building. In the foreground is the Lakelet (or Butterfly Lake), followed by the Phoenix Palms that once lived in The Square. The tall building to the right is the The ...

Creator:      Joe Sing Candids, Palmerston North
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1974

This postcard photograph was taken from the Lakelet quadrant in The Square, looking across to the corner of Church Street west. From left: the cannon was one of two placed in The Square 1909; the brick All Saints Church was completed 1914; the Gra...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915

This postcard photograph was taken from the Lakelet quadrant in The Square, looking across to the corner of Church Street West. Some features include (from left): the domed structure is the observatory, built 1906 and demolished in 1938; the canno...

Creator:      Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd
Date:          circa 1915

This postcard shows The Square as it was around 1910.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          circa 1910