This event is believed to be the start of the 1927 Jubilee celebrations. A large procession was held 2 March 1927, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Borough of Palmerston North.The procession included the Salvation Army band, the Municipal Band,...
Creator: G F Framjee
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 2, 1927
Mr Henry H Stephens and his wife Francis Lawson moved to Apiti in 1894 and established the business, working it until their departure to Awahuri in 1908. Henry Stephens was also appointed a Justice of the Peace while in Apiti. Henry Stephens opene...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Apiti, Manawatu
Date: circa 1930
This photograph is taken from outside the Palmerston North Railway Station. The Railway Hotel, proprietor John Hurley, taken over by William Owen in 1914, and Cafe De Paris Hotel are opposite. The Post Office, on the corner of Main Street East and...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1913
This photograph shows the back of the Railway Station in The Square. The Post Office and Telegraph stands next to the station. See 2014P_Rsq6_007689 for a shot of the front of these buildings.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1885
'Willowbank' was the farm of John Octavius Batchelar, on the banks of the Manawatu River, just over the town bridge, in Fitzherbert West. The family farmed there c1878 - 1925, when it was sold to the Government for the establishment of Massey Agri...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1900
This photograph shows a bustling street scene on Main Street West. The advertisement for the Convent Carnival dates this to sometime in 1905 - the carnival itself took place in early November. A crowd has gathered outside Childs Commercial Hotel a...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
A brewery float is towed by clydesdale horses during the Centennial Parade. 92 floats took part at the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were present at the event to celebrate 100 years of Palmerston North.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 1971
The Square looking from Main Street East towards Church Street. The buildings were, from left: the Ready Money Store; Mrs Morley's millinery shop and registry office for servants; Mr W Anderson, tailor; Mr Venn, furniture shop; Mr T Wray, saddler ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1884
Panoramic view taken from close to the railway line in the centre of The Square, Palmerston North, with Main Street East on the left, the Church Street East corner at centre and Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue) on the right. The photograph was tak...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1895 to 1902
This butter factory was situated in Fitzherbert Avenue, between The Square and Ferguson Street. It operated 1893-1945, when it was replaced by a larger dairy factory.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
"Whiskers Bush" on the road between Awahuri and Feilding, now called Kitchener Park.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890
This composite panorama was published in the Auckland Weekly News on 23 June 1904. The realism of the panorama is marred by the presence of the same children on both sides of the frame.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
The photographer appears to have been standing on the top of the Grand Hotel and is looking across the Square gardens towards Rangitikei Street. The three-storey building had it's top storey removed after the 1931 earthquake. The site of the three...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1908
The Clarendon Hotel stood on the corner of Rangitikei Street and The Square. Taken the day after the fire in January 1904, looking to the Manawatu Stables on George Street, at the end of Coleman Place.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1904