Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Around the beginning of the twentieth century horse drawn transport was common. In Te Marae o Hine/The Square, hitching rails with posts were erected for horses so that their ...

Creator:      Val Burr
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 6, 2023

Looking down Main Street West towards Coleman Place (now Coleman Mall). Walkley's Commercial and Family Hotel was built in 1881. It was previously occupied by the Commercial Hotel. The Standard building alongside the hotel is the first home of the...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          January 1882 to March 1882

The building at centre, built as the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, became the Palmerston North Borough Council offices. In 1944-1945, a new building was built (now Square Edge). to the right of this building can be seen the All Saints Church,const...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of The Square and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

One of the original hitching posts for horses, in The Square. It is located opposite the Fitzherbert Avenue corner of The Square and is listed as Category One of the City Register of Historic Buildings, Objects and Trees Worth Preserving. Publishe...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          September 17, 1979

This postcard reads: "Am all alone tonight the family having left with the washing GY (?)". The image looks from the corner of Broadway Avenue down towards Church Street, with Main Street East on the left about centre of the photograph. From left:...

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

Looking across the Square from Rangitikei Street on the right to Coleman Place on the left. The Clarendon Hotel is the building on the left. It was first built in the early 1870s, but destroyed by fire on 28 January 1904. The brick building was bu...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1907

The east section of the gardens are in front, with the statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe behind (built in 1907). The Clarendon Hotel is on the back right on the photo (rebuilt in 1904)

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1904 to 1907

Bertie (Bert) Albert was born 2 January, 1883 at 75 Venue Street in Bromley, Poplar, Country of Middlesex, London. His family migrated to New Zealand in 1910 on the Arawa, arriving in Wellington in 1911. Bert worked in one of the dairy factories i...

Creator:      Bertie (Bert) Albert
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1914

The photograph shows a busy street scene of Rangitikei Street in the 1920s. In the middle of the photograph is Palmerston North's first Bank of New Zealand. It was situated on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square. In 1914-15 this buildi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Rangitikei Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1926

One of the original hitching posts for horses, in The Square. Photographs from the time indicate that this post was only one component of the design - the complete design has three such posts supporting a rail to which horses could be tied. It is ...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1981