The Grand hotel was constructed in 1906, with the original plans showing 66 bedrooms, 2 conservatories, one shop facing the square and a large dining room. It was designed by NZ architect Mr Maddison and built by Mr James Trevor (Trevor Bros). The...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: Corner of The Square and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th July 2024. Part 3 of 3. Has written a book Manawatu Striders, Runners and Walkers : The First Four Decades available from Palmerston North City Library. Had finished interviews for the b...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 30, 2024
Pictured is a group of students posing outside Rotary Court - one of Massey's halls of residence.
Creator: Unkown
Place: Rotary Court, Massey University
Date: 1986
Photo taken in Featherston Street when work to upgrade the street and install new cycleways was taking place.
The image includes one from the fleet of Palmerston North's new CRRC fully electric buses operated by Horizons Regional Council...
Creator: Paul A Robertson
Place: Featherston Street
Date: July 4, 2024
The first Occidental Hotel was built on the corner of Fitzherbert Street [Fitzherbert Avenue] and The Square in 1887. It burnt down in September of 1891 and was replaced by a very similar building which was also destroyed by a fire in 1927.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1887
The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) is on left hand corner, and Leary's Chemist shop (centre) stands between Church and Main Streets east. The bush line around the newly developing town can be seen behind. Fitzherbert Street was renamed Fitzherbert Aven...
Creator: William James Harding
Date: 1878
A road extends from Fitzherbert Street [Fitzherbert Avenue] to the railway tracks in the centre of The Square, from where the photograph has been taken. The building on the right hand corner of Fitzherbert Street is the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1902 to 1905
The Furniture Fair building was Holben Precision Engineers Limited, built 1923. The Leader and Watt building was built for Gough, Gough and Hamer, circa 1920s.
Creator: Matt Ryan
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1988
ANZAC Day Dawn Parade 2018, The Square, Palmerston North
Creator: PNCC
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 25, 2018
A display of poppies made of flax and woven by the community for ANZAC Day 2016 in The Square, Palmerston North.
Creator: Steph
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 22, 2016
ANZAC Day Dawn Parade 2018, The Square, Palmerston North
Creator: PNCC
Date: April 25, 2018
From left can be seen the fourth Palmerston North Court House, built 1897, which served, with additions and alterations, until 1988. Behind can be seen the Opera House, built 1904-1905, in Church Street. It was demolished in 1996. To the right, th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905 to 1929
A ‘typical scratch band’ of the war period, being scratched together from Linton Army Camp personnel who were able and available to play. 'Pot Wallopers' was the term given to Army staff on pot cleaning duties.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
Mina McKenzie, Museum Director, with cases and drawers of letterpress type, on display at the Manawatu Museum Printery. The printery is no longer in operation.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 1979
Mina McKenzie, Museum Director, is demonstrating an Albion Flatbed printing press used at the printery. The printery is no longer in operation.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: September 1979
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Life story of John Tiffin Stewart (1827-1913) town planner and government surveyor. He was responsible for the planning of Manawatū's towns in the 19th century, including the ...
Creator: Tim Upperton
Place: Manawatu-Whanganui
Date: November 19, 2022
He rangatira a Tukumaru no Ngāti Raukawa. Ihakara Tukumaru was a Ngāti Raukawa chief. To access image please contact us.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1870
Manawatu Photorama was published between 1959 and 1964 by Frank Goldingham. It featured social occasions, sports events and city events and perfomances photographed both by Mr. Goldingham and contributing photographers.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Date: June 1960
The 40 year old pine tree was recommended for inclusion in the city’s tree register shortly before it was chopped down by Mr Roy Mudgeway. The cottage was already on the Council’s register of historic buildings worth preserving. It was dismantled ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 23 Taonui Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 17, 1979
Derelict cottage that is due for demolition. The cottage was dismantled in 1980 by Palmerston North carpenter, Mr Graham Norman. He planned to reconstruct the building in James Line, if planning approval was given.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 23 Taonui Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 27, 1980
These three premises were situated on the southern side of The Square, between Church Street and Main Street west. William Park bought his business in Palmerston North in 1882, and later this building of 8000 square feet was designed by Ernest La...
Creator: George W Shailer
Date: circa 1890
A McCormick-Deering tractor ploughing land at Massey Agricultural College. The tractor driver is Thomas Edward Simms, known as Joe Simms, tractor salesman. He is demonstrating ploughing with this particular model on behalf of the International Har...
Creator: J H Daroux
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1928
On July 21, 1919, King George V approved the award of a silk Union Flag to be presented to Territorial Force Battalions and Battalions serving overseas. Here the flags are being presented to the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Battalions, Wellington Regiment, afte...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 25, 1920
Roy Street, near Tremaine Avenue intersection, 1953 flood.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1953
Clothes collected locally are being readied to be sent to troops overseas in World War One. amongst those packing the parcels in the Palmerston North Borough Council Chambers is Mrs J.A. Nash (Mayoress), second from left.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 1914
The second building from right is the Colonial Bank of New Zealand which later became the Borough Council Chambers. Across the Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue) corner can be seen the Occidental Hotel with the clock tower, as yet without clock, on top.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1893
Two air force personnel are in a small boat in the Lakelet in The Square.
Creator: Acme Studios
Date: circa 1940
Photograph taken the day the ownership of the Evening Standard changed from the Pirani Brothers to N.H. Nash and John Coomber. Back row: D. Sexton, D. Mawhiney, B. Halpin, T. Hastings, G. Bouzett, H.G. Kerslake, B. Tremain. Middle row: F. Newth...
Creator: Bunting Studio
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1, 1903
This resealing machine was one of the first of its kind to be built in New Zealand. Milson Airport also had an alternative grass runway for light planes to use.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Airport Drive, Milson, Palmerston North
Date: February 2, 1963
The tableau was part of the entertainment staged at an All Saints Ladies Guild Evening at the Theatre Royal, 12th and 13th of September 1888. The tableau represented a group of statues called 'The Sculptor's Dream' and was lit by coloured lights. ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1888