This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 December 1962, "In Palmerston North for the national women's softball tournament, Miss C. Corbett (left) and Miss J. Shelton of Wellington, spent a damp time in their...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Dittmer Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1962

A film believed to have been taken by Rod Matheson featuring images from a rainy Palmerston North day (0:00 - 0:31) and a film club event at the Lido swimming complex (0:31 - end)

Total length: 4:23 - Film has no sound.

Place:          Park Road, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1966

The $40,000 Coleman Mall redevelopment was opened on 27 July 1973 by the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr B.G.C. Elwood. The work was done by Palmerston North City Council workmen except for the asphalting of the parking and pedestrian areas. This vi...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1973

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 June, 1959. "Raincoats were the order of the day for most patrons at Awapuni on Saturday. Here is the crowd studying the doubles totalisator. The woman in the right...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          1959-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 September 1961 "Keen hockey fans these spectators at the Manawatu-South Otago women's match this morning. They braved the rain, but the three youngsters are perhaps n...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Date:          September 2, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 January 1961: "Slightly damp, slightly muddy, but still full of good spirit, 57 Scouts from the Western Manawatu district arrived back in Palmerston North yesterday a...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          January 24, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 January 1961: "The scene at the junction of Broadway Avenue and the Square on Friday afternoon during the cloudburst that produced one inch of rain in half an hour."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Broadway Avenue and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1961-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 January 1961: "Men rolled up their pants, and women cast off their shoes and stockings to negotiate the flooding at the intersection of Broadway Avenue and the Square."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Broadway and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1961-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 September 1961 "A Transport Department meter maid, Miss. E. Gleeson, braved the cold and wet this morning to make minor adjustments to a parking meter. Besides issuin...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1, 1961

This photograph looks east towards The Square. In the centre of the photograph is the clock tower of the old Post Office, removed as an earthquake risk in 1942. Quite distinct is the curve in the train line running through The Square. The street t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1937

The Lychway, a funeral home, was built in 1956. After the building was demolished the land has been converted to a car park for UCOL staff & students. A temporary market for vegetable sales is open on Saturday mornings.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1956

This photograph shows a rainy view of Church Street West in the 1930s. The three-storey building to the left of the photograph is the Grand Hotel, built 1906.

Creator:      Evening Post, Wellington
Place:          Corner of Church Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

The junior angling competition attracted about 280 young anglers to the lagoon. More than 70 fish were caught, including trout, perch, and eels. Contest organisers, The Manawatu-Oroua branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, released a ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          February 27, 1982

Female students of Palmerston North Technical High School. The Palmerston North Technical High School was opened in September 1909 on what is now Princess Street, Palmerston North. In 1956 the school moved to the Rangitikei Street site and became ...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1949

This busy street scene shows people making their way in and around the Square in 1937. Note the domed Midland Hotel, visible in the left side of the photograph.

Creator:      Evening Post, Wellington
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1937