A view of the southern side of Te Marae o Hine, The Square. The establishments shown in this photograph include including the PDC department store (Premier Drapery Company Ltd), Pegdens (furniture store), Manawatū Oroua Electric Power Board and Fo...

Creator:      Vera L McLennan-Boman, attributed to
Date:          1946 to 1954

Image likely taken from the C. M. Ross Building, looking across The Square to Church Street.

This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy ...

Creator:      D. Evans
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          196X/197X

The annual Student procession or 'Procesh' was held at midday on the Monday of 'Capping Week' and was a highlight of 'Town and Gown' relations between Massey University and the City. Sometimes courting controversy with its 'student humour', the pa...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 13, 1964

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Palmerston North 6-7 January 1954, staying overnight at the Grand Hotel. The city was decorated with lights to welcome them. This negative was copied from a series of slides take...

Creator:      C H James
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 1954

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:      Unknown
Place:          84 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

This early photograph of the Square shows the view from the corner of Rangitikei Street across to Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue). On the corner of Fitzherbert Street is the second Occidental Hotel (with the distinctive tower), the first of which ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1895

Looking across The Square in Palmerston North, towards the Tararua Mountains. Includes the Clock Tower, constructed 1957, the War Memorial, constructed 1926 and the PDC near the corner of Church Street and The Square.

Creator:      Bruce Watt Photography
Place:          Clock Tower, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

This photographs was created as part of a series of eight photographs showin scenes of Palmerston North. Shown here is the PDC building in The Square, the Premiere Drapery Company was a successful business operating for many years in The Square.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1930s

This photograph shows The Square from Rangitikei Street through to Fitzherbert Avenue. Notice the three rows of railway lines and the absence of high rise office buildings.

Creator:      Colin Rush
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1961