This postcard shows the King Edward VII Coronation Memorial Fountain, also known as the Coronation Monument. It was built in 1902 to mark the coronation of Edward VII. In 1925, it was combined with another feature of The Square, the concrete fish ...

Creator:      F T Series
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1906

This photograph looks out over The Square towards the old Post Office. The small structure behind the line of carts and carriages is a taxi stand. The street that bisects the photograph horizontally is Rangitikei Street, which used to run in to Th...

Creator:      John Halford Perrin
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          unknown date to 1908

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 postcard of the Band Rotunda in The Square was possibly taken to mark the opening of the Post Office (corner of Main Street East and The Square). Note the flags and crowds of people. The Band Rotunda featured here was the first of two built i...

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1906?

This colour postcard looks across The Square towards Main Street East. The two-storey building with a tower is the old Post Office. Built in 1906, the Post Office was Palmerston North’s fourth. Due to the risks in an earthquake, the clock tower wa...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1906 to 1909

This postcard shows the corner of Broad Street (left-hand side), now Broadway Avenue, and The Square (right-hand side) around 1910. One of the balconies of the old Royal Hotel can be seen on the left-hand side of the image.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          circa 1910

This early colour postcard depicts four carriages making their way through The Square. The building with the clock tower to the right of the postcard is Palmerston North's fourth post office. Though the tower and clock mechanism were removed after...

Creator:      G H Bennett and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1905 to 1906

This photograph shows the section of The Square between Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue) and Main Street East. On the left is the Collinson and Cunninghame building after the extensions had been made to the original site. This new extension gave...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1911 to 1918

A postcard looking from the corner of Rangitikei Street to the Post Office on the corner of Main Street East.

Creator:      Crown Studios-Whalley, Co.
Date:          1904