The first Fitzherbert Bridge constructed in 1877 crosses the Manawatu River at Palmerston North. Fitzherbert Street [Fitzherbert Avenue] can be seen running to the centre of the town.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date: 1884
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 Occidental Hotel was erected c.1887 and was destroyed by fire in 1891. A second Occidental Hotel erected on the same site, was also burnt down in 1927. On the far left is the Club Hotel. The four two-storey buildings in the centre of the photo...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890
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 location of this two storey house in Fitzherbert Avenue is unknown.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
Looking across The Square to the Grand Hotel, built 1906. To the left can be seen the Occidental Hotel opposite the Bank of New Zealand, on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue. In the foreground can be seen the statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe erected i...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1908
R S Barry was an ironmongery and hardware shop, established in Palmerston North in 1893.From left: Unknown, Samuel Barry (later an optometrist in Auckland, ‘Barry & Beale), and Robert Snowden Barry.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
One of the world’s aviation pioneers, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (Smithy) landed at Milson Airport, Palmerston North, 10 September 1928 just a few months after he and Charles Ulm made the first crossing of the Pacific in the “Southern Cross”. Pi...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date: September 10, 1928
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
This photograph consists of two views. One is of the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the Post Office (erected 1905-1906 in the background. The second is of the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the with the Occidental Hotel in ...
Creator: A Rickard, Palmerston North
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1910 to 1925
Looking north over the city from the top of the old Public Library building on Main Street. In the distance at right can be see the multi storey Palmerston North Hospital. St Patrick's Cathedral spire is the other notable landmark. The building on...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
This postcard shows The Square in the early 1900s with Main Street running off at centre top. During this time the railway ran down the centre of Main Street and through the centre of The Square, as seen behind the band rotunda. Prominent features...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1907
This engineering display was to show Engineering Officers and Senior Officers the capabilities of equipment used by the New Zealand Army. The building of an infantry assault bridge, across the lake at Linton Camp, was part of the display.
Creator: Manawatu Guardian
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1975
A group of military personnel, with three nurses in uniform. Possibly at Linton Army Camp. See also FM104
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
A war memorial to commemorate local soldiers who died in World War One was erected in the centre of The Square, Palmerston North, in 1926. The figure that sits atop the memorial was based on a similar one in Folkstone, England. Today it also comme...
Creator: Crown Studios
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 7, 1926
Whakarongo Railway Station was opened on Stoney Creek Road 9 March 1891, on the line through to the Manawatu Gorge. It was closed to passenger service in the 1960s, and the station was sold and demolished in 1967. The remaining goods yard was offi...
Creator: Ken R Cassells
Place: Stoneycreek Road, Whakarongo, Palmerston North
Date: February 1, 1941
The Square was extensively remodelled for the 1971 centennial celebrations. Additions included a raised flower bed at the Fitzherbert Avenue end and the construction of the Centennial Pavilion.
This photograph was one of four scenes of Palmersto...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1971
The Koehler's arrived in New Zealand onboard the "Gutenberg" in 1875 and farmed in Palmerston North. Anton is pictured wearing the War Commemorative Medal of 1870–1871 (Franco-Prussian War) and the The Königgrätz Commemorative Cross (1866) for Loy...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
A group of unidentified women serving in World War Two. The WAAC was attached to the army and carried out certain wartime duties.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: 194X
Two figures in naval uniform stand alongside two women dressed in wedding attire. Elmar Studio wedding portraits are usually composed with the bride and groom in the centre of the photograph, flanked on either side by the bridesmaid and groomsman.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
This voluntary group (later paid) was set up during WWII. The women had to pass First Aid and mechanics' exams, as well as hold a heavy traffic license to enable them to drive ambulances for the Palmerston North Hospital. They also worked for the ...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1946
The presents were packed at the offices of the Manawatu Racing Club, alongside the premises of Reid & Grey Ltd, to be distributed by a number of Father Christmases with the help of local citizens. This was to mark the first Christmas after the end...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 25, 1918
Looking down Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North, from the corner of The Square and Broadway, showing Christmas decorations strung across the street. The photograph features the three buildings that comprised Collinson and Cunninghame Ltd, establish...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1971
The Victoria Esplanade gardens were opened in 1897. The phoenix palms were first planted along Victoria Drive in the late 1930s, although many of them have since been replaced.
Creator: Massey University
Place: Palm Drive, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: circa 2000
Niels and Ragnhild Hansen's newly built house at Whakarongo, situated nearly opposite James Line with the bush line beyond. Niels, an immigrant from Denmark, met and married Ragnihild Gudmudsen in Palmerston North in 1884. They moved to this house...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1895
These flats were designed by Reginald Thorrold Jaggard, a local architect, for Mrs M S Curle in 1938. The flats, on the corner of Rangitikei Street and Wellesbourne Street, stand beside Palmerston North Boys' High School. Plans are held in Ian Mat...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1939
In 1952 Palmerston North celebrated 75 years since being proclaimed a Borough. Heading the procession down Cuba Street are four marching drum “Majorettes”. Directly behind them is the Scottish Society Pipe Band, followed in turn by a group of marc...
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 1952
The cenotaph, constructed 1926, was unveiled by the Prime Minister of the day Mr J F Coates. The memorial, a copy of one found in Folkstone, England, was for the men who died in the First World War, (WWI) and as such faced north-west towards the b...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 7, 1926
A war memorial to commemorate local soldiers who died in World War One was erected in the centre of The Square, Palmerston North, in 1926. The figure that sits atop the memorial was based on a similar one in Folkstone, England. Today it also comme...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 7, 1926