These images are part of the Elmar Studios negative collection.

It depicts the exterior of McBride Elwood Wadham and McKegg Barristers and Soliciters - the breeze-block wall and building still exist at 506 Main Street East as of 2026 - the site ...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          506 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Frank (Frances Leslie) Berry.

Taken from the Square, the image depicts the Kosy Theatre which opened in 1915, (a short history of which appears here:

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Creator:      Berry Family
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1916 to 1918

This plan is titled, "Plan of Sec.380 and Pt. of Sec. 387, Township of Palmerston North, Block XI

Kairanga S.D."

Visible roads include Church Street East, Frederick Street, Main Street East, Millar Street, Phillip Street, Alfred Street, Rainforth...

Creator:      O.J. Dolan [Surveyor]
Place:          Church Street East; Frederick Street; Main Street East; Millar Street; Phillip Street; Alfred Street; Rainforth Street; Weston Avenue; Fitzroy Street
Date:          March 1938

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

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

These premises of the Premier Drapery Company were built 1929-1930. The store was one of the foremost department stores in Palmerston North. In 1986 the PDC became part of the PDC Plaza. This was sold in 1988, and the PDC building demolished 1990.

Creator:      Max Boddy
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1975

Visible in this postcard are two women and a cart with a donkey on Rangitikei Street, which at the time extended into the Square itself. The shops on Main Street East include: [On the Square] Evening Standard Building, United Farmers Cooperative A...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1901

In James Mitchell's plan of Palmerston North of 1866, Main Street is shown as Ahuriri Road in the course of formation as a horse and cattle track. In Henry Jackson's plan of 1872 the name is changed to the Great Northern Road. The photograph appe...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street East, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1908