[Photograph of patrons and publican at the Crown Hotel, Norsewood.]

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Norsewood

Bunnythorpe is a small rural community, close to Palmerston North. It was established in the 'Manchester Block' in the 1870s. The Bunnythorpe Hotel was built in 1892 by A Fredsberg. It closed in 1973 after the new Bunnythorpe Hotel opened next doo...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Bunnythorpe, Manawatu
Date:          October 30, 1981

This album documents hotel buildings in the lower North Island (excluding the Wellington region), listing them alphabetically by the name of the business.

The hotels shown include the: Albion Hotel, Patea; Albion Hotel, Shannon; Albion Hotel, Wha...

Date:          circa 1955 to circa 1960

The H L Young building was constructed in Palmerston North in 1920. Parked outside is Henry Young’s Studebaker, one of the first in the Manawatu. On the left is the Post Office Hotel, which was seriously damaged by fire c1926. It was demolished i...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

The Hotel Midland operated in Coleman Place from 1928–1965. It was demolished in October 1965, as it was deemed structurally unsound and not able to be economically converted for commercial use. The building was constructed in 1914 as the Everybod...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

Child’s Commercial Hotel was situated on the corner of The Square and Main Street West. This building replaced the original hotel, built in 1882 and burnt down in 1900. It was demolished in 1935 to be replaced by a third Commercial Hotel, which in...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Site of Imperial Hotel on the corner of Rangitikei and King Streets, looking down Cuba Street. The Hotel Imperial occupied 30 Rangitikei Street from 1911 – 1968. The Commercial Union building now stands on this site.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          King Street looking down Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          January 1971

Site of Hotel Imperial on the corner of Rangitikei and King Streets, taken from Cuba Street. The Imperial Hotel occupied 30 Rangitikei Street from 1911 – 1968. The Commercial Union building now stands on this site.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of King and Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          January 1971

Captain J Mitchell was proprietor of the second Occidental Hotel, which replaced a very similar building burnt down in September of 1891. This hotel was also destroyed by a fire in 1927.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1915 to 1927

After the first Palmerston North Empire Hotel, built in 1890, burned down in 1895, this building was constructed as a replacement in the same year. The hotel was completely redesigned and redecorated in 1981 and now houses a Cobb and Co restaurant...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Corner of Princess and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

The Royal Hotel was established in Palmerston North about 1871. Over the years the building was repeatedly enlarged and improved. In 1915 the Bank of New Zealand erected their premises on this site and the licence was transferred to a building fur...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Rangitikei Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1904 to 1910

A public transport bus travels along Main Street to The Square. A Municipal Passenger Bus service began in Palmerston North in 1921. There have been 3 Commercial Hotels on this site, on the corner of The Square. The first, built in 1881, was repla...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of the Square and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1921 to 1935

After the first Palmerston North Empire Hotel, built in 1890, burned down in 1895, this building was constructed as a replacement in the same year. The hotel was modernised to what is seen in the photograph. In 1981 it was redesigned and redecorat...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1968

The hotel was built in Terrace End 1875 - 1876 and operated until 1969. It was demolished in 1970. In the foreground can be seen the remnants of the railway tracks that ran down Main Street until the Milson diversion became operational in 1964.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1969

The Club Hotel was also known as Tuckers Club Hotel after Mr Tucker took over the hotel in 1900. It was situated opposite the eastern corner of The Square and Church Street in Palmerston North. The hotel had sixty bedrooms and was built on two acr...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

Doorway into the Railway Hotel, so named because it was situated opposite the former railway yards and station on Main Street. It was built  in 1904-1905, to replace the former Railway Hotel on this site. It is now known as The New Railway...

Creator:      Lesley Courtney
Place:          Main Street, The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          October 9, 2017

The hotel was built in Terrace End 1875 - 1876 and operated until 1969.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street East, Palmerston North
Date:          1970

The former Empire Hotel houses a Cobb & Co restaurant, Cobb Bar and lounge, Coach Bar and public bar. The hotel was re-designed and redecorated in 1981 to come in line with other Cobb & Co developments around New Zealand. The first Empire Hotel w...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Princess and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 7, 1981

The Majestic Hotel was constructed by Trevor Bros and opened in 1930. At the time of this photograph a new restaurant and lounge bar were opened on the first floor of the hotel, called the Britannia Restaurant and Family Lounge Bar. At the time Mi...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Aveneue, Palmerston North
Date:          August 8, 1980

The “Buffet” was a non-licensed boarding house and restaurant, established by Samuel Dawick, who died in 1888, and carried on by his widow and sons. It was one of the best known businesses in Palmerston North. This building was built in the 1890s ...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1898

The Hotel Carlton was designed by L G West and Son (Ernst West) and was constructed in 1927. Today the building still serves as an hotel (Travelodge 2009), with a multi storey extension on it. (2009).

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1937

The three-storied brick Clarendon Hotel was constructed in 1904, after fire had destroyed the earlier wooden hotel. Mr H Baker was the Proprietor. Mr Geoffry Watchorn is standing second from the left in the foreground. In 1927 the building was co...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

A Commercial Hotel operated on this site from 1881-1986. This is the third Commercial Hotel, a more upgraded, modern building built in 1935. It was demolished in 1986.

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

The Royal Hotel began life as Dawick’s Buffet, an unlicensed boarding house and restaurant in the 1890’s established by Samuel Dawick. In 1913 the licence of the Royal Hotel on the corner of The Square and Rangitikei Street was transferred to Daw...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          44 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1982

This large two-storey hotel had a dining room, several sitting rooms, billiard room and commercial room on the Ground Floor, and two sitting rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms on the First Floor. The Proprietor was S.J. Hickson.

Creator:      R.O. Hornblow, Foxton
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1905 to circa 1906

The Occidental Hotel stood on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square. After the first one burnt down in a fire 12 September 1891 it was rebuilt on the same site. Behind the people observing the water can be seen one of The Square quadrant...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1892 to 1904

People observe the remians of the Clarendon Hotel, burned down by fire 28 January 1904. The Clarendon Hotel was built in 1873 on the corner of Rangitikei Street and The Square. The original two-storey wooden building was replaced by a three-storey...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 29, 1904

A 'Commercial Hotel' has operated on this site from 1881-1986. In 1902 this hotel replaced the original 'Commercial' which was burnt down in 1900. In 1903 it was leased to the Childs family. Shops and businesses also operated out of the Ground Flo...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1934 to 1935

The township of Bunnythorpe lies within the original Manchester Block, purchased from the New Zealand Government by the Colonist's' Land and Loan Corporation Ltd in 1869. A Bunnythorpe railway station was first built in 1875. It was replaced by th...

Creator:      R E Clevely
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1959

Bunnythorpe was part of the original Manchester Block. The first settlers arrived in 1875.

Creator:      R E Clevely
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959