This photograph shows the shops to the immediate north of the Post Office. From left: the Kosy Theatre (rebuilt as the Vogue Theatre in 1943) exhibiting Mae West's movie "The Belle of the Nineties"; Aard Tours Ltd; Miss Rae's Hosiery and Gloves (M...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1934 to circa 1938

Anglican services began in Palmerston North in 1872. This All Saints Church, built 1914, was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere in Edwardian Free Gothic style and constructed in brick. It was the third such Anglican church on the same site. It ...

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

This photograph looks down Broadway Avenue from The Square. The building under construction is that of the Temperance and General Mutual Life Society Building, an insurance company that operated in Australia and New Zealand. In the 1920s and 1930s...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1937

This photograph was taken looking along Broadway into The Square. Some of the businesses that line the street are, from left: Alexander Gowns; Broadway Shoes; Garners Department Store; Progress Building; The Manawatu Daily Times office; Australian...

Creator:      F A Tier
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. The original 1906 building was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. It was originally built with a clock tower but this was ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

New Zealand's first community centre was established in this building in 1938. It was the brainchild of Mr L J Wild, Feilding Agricultural High School's first headmaster. Before that time this building was used by the Technical School. The top sto...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Feilding
Date:          1981

A substantial drop in the demand for the company's fibre led to the closure of this factory at the end of August 1980. 120 were employed at the factory.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Shannon, Manawatu
Date:          1980

This building was opened in 1908 as the Feilding Technical School, and became a teaching facility for woodwork and cookery classes following the opening of Feilding Agricultural High School in the 1920s. Originally two storied, in 1931 the Napier ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          117 Fergusson Street, Feilding, Manawatu
Date:          July 23, 1973

This photograph looks past Main Street West and onto the corner of Coleman Place (now Coleman Mall). Railway signals stand in the centre of the street, where the train crossed to run through The Square. Some of the businesses that are visible are ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950

The Christian Centre was run by two full-time elders, and had an open door policy for those in need. It provided 'spiritual counselling', as well as a doctor, a 24 hour telephone service, “Crisis Call’ maintained by volunteers, and a Friday night ...

Creator:      Manawatu Guardian
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 3, 1975

A view of the Lakelet quadrant in The Square, looking across to the corner of Church Street west. From left: The Manawatu Standard building (obscured by trees), the Municipal Chambers of the Palmerston North City Council (obscured by trees), All S...

Creator:      Maurice Thompson
Place:          338 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 13, 1967