Image showing the partial demolition of the former Chief Post Office (High Flyers/The Daily),

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          Main Street
Date:          June 9, 2025

Image showing the partial demolition of the former Chief Post Office (High Flyers/The Daily)

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          Main Street
Date:          June 9, 2025

[Photograph of patrons and publican at the Crown Hotel, Norsewood.]

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Norsewood

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 September, 1959. "The Bolshoi ballet company arrived in Palmerston North early this afternoon. Members of the company are seen receiving their room numbers in their ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 17, 1959

This album documents hotel buildings in the lower North Island (excluding the Wellington region), listing them alphabetically by the name of the business.

The hotels shown include the: Albion Hotel, Patea; Albion Hotel, Shannon; Albion Hotel, Wha...

Date:          circa 1955 to circa 1960

Doorway into the Railway Hotel, so named because it was situated opposite the former railway yards and station on Main Street. It was built  in 1904-1905, to replace the former Railway Hotel on this site. It is now known as The New Railway...

Creator:      Lesley Courtney
Place:          Main Street, The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          October 9, 2017

The shops in the background are (from left to right) Carthew's Stationer and News Agent, The Sun Fire Office, F C Wilson's Building (with tearooms and hairdresser, tobacconist and Billiards Room), Hastie's Hotel Rooms and the Post Office.

Creator:      Empire Series
Place:          Feilding
Date:          circa 1906

This large two-storey hotel had a dining room, several sitting rooms, billiard room and commercial room on the Ground Floor, and two sitting rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms on the First Floor. The Proprietor was S.J. Hickson.

Creator:      R.O. Hornblow, Foxton
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1905 to circa 1906

Bunnythorpe was part of the original Manchester Block. The first settlers arrived in 1875.

Creator:      R E Clevely
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959

Demolition of the Cafe De Paris Inn looking west along Main Street. The exterior facade has been removed and builders have already gutted the inside of the building.

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          267 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 2, 2016

Cafe De Paris Inn during the demolition of the building. This photograph was taken as the exterior facade was being removed. The interior had already been removed. The New Railway Hotel is visible in the background. Taken along Domain Street looki...

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          267 Main Street
Date:          August 2, 2016

Mr Thomas Lovejoy is sitting in the front row, second from the right.

Creator:      Ernest Denton
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

Found stuck in a Griffiths diary. 

Creator:      Kerry Griffiths
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1910

Former Awapuni bottlestore in Pioneer Highway when quite new

Creator:      Max Youle