This postcard has the message, "Will you send me a box of violets for Miss Fraser for the party if it is not too much trouble. Meta". It was addressed to Mrs HY Lethbridge, Ruatuangata, Wangeahu, Wanganui and postmarkes 4 J1 1904. To the left of t...

Creator:      Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Palmerston North as part of their New Zealand tour. Here the train stops in The Square. Note the crown decoration on top of the Band Rotunda.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          January 7, 1954 to January 8, 1954

This postcard shows The Square as it was around 1915. Note the spire of the old St Patricks Church, Palmerston North to the right of of General Post Office.

Creator:      Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd
Date:          circa 1915

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

This photograph was taken from the tower of the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd (T&G) building, near the corner of Broadway Avenue and The Square. This partial view of the Square shows a number of its most rec...

Creator:      A Kelt
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1952

This photograph of The Square was taken in the vicinity of the PDC building and looks towards the corner of Main Street West and The Square. The building in the centre is the third incarnation of the Commercial Hotel, built 1935. Next to it is the...

Creator:      Joe Sing Candids, Palmerston North
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1974

This photograph of The Square was probably taken from one of the top storeys of the CM Ross Building (Roscos Department Store) and showcases some of the changes that have taken place in The Square since the 1940s. Note the lack of the Hopwood Cloc...

Creator:      Royal Studios, Marton
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940

A civic welcome to Lord and Viscountess Galway in May 1935 after Lord Galway succeeded Lord Bledisloe as Governor General of New Zealand on 12 April 1935. He is shown here inspecting the troops. Lord Galway retired from New Zealand on 3rd of Feb...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          May 17, 1935

This panorama shows all four quadrants of The Square and the central gardens running along the railway line. It looks west to the surrounding buildings - from the Fitzherbert Street corner around to Main Street West, to just beyond the Rangitikei ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1949

Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897. The band rotunda on the right was removed from The Square and resited in the Esplanade 1907, where it remained until demolished ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1930

Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897. The pergola was built c1916-1917 and demolished c1940.

Creator:      Framjee
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          1939

The Indian troops of the British Imperial Army toured New Zealand and visited Palmerston North for a short time. The train stopped in the centre of The Square, the troops disembarked, performed some displays and them re-embarked on the train. For ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 24, 1901

These pages look like are originally from an album. The pages show: Broadway Avenue, Cherry Blossoms in the Esplanade, Grandstand in the Showgrounds after the 1936 gale, "Wrecked Motor Shed" after the 1936 gale, The Square and The Lakelet.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1936

This photograph of The Square was taken from the Grand Hotel and looks north. The corner of Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue) is in the top left corner. Further down is the corner of Main Street East where Palmerston North's fourth Post Office si...

Creator:      G F Framjee
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1909

This view of The Square was probably taken from the top of the Grand Hotel. Some of the visible landmarks are The Lakelet, the cannons, the band rotunda, the observatory and the Te Peeti Te Awe Awe statue.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1911 to 1918

An interesting view of how the fountain in the Square used to look before the addition of the spire from the Coronation Monument (also visible) was added (thus creating the Coronation Fountain). This image is looking across the Square to Church St...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1908

Looking across the Square to Church Street East and Fitzherbert Avenue. The railway line is visible over the tops of the trees. The buildings are: [1] The Club Hotel on the extreme left (yellow building). [2] W F Durward, drapers (on site from 190...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1902

"Bennett & Co's Souvenir Views of Palmerston North and Feilding, Published by Bennett & Co., Palmerston North." This booklet contained a variety of popular views from Palmerston North and Feilding, including churches in town towns, Palmerston Nort...

Creator:      Bennett and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North / Feilding / Pohangina
Date:          circa 1899

The Lakelet was constructed in The Square in 1909. It was shaped as a butterfly with the bridge forming the body. It has been variously known as the Butterfly Lake and the Duck Pond. The cannon was placed beside it in the same year and the observa...

Creator:      L Martin
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1913

The original band rotunda was built in 1899 and this was moved to the Victoria Esplanade in 1907. A second rotunda (seen here) was built in 1907, but pulled down in 1956 to make way for the Hopwood Tower.

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

Looking across the Square, with Main Street West (centre) and Coleman Place (left). The Statue commemorating Edward VII standing on the right (built 1902). The Times Office is on the far left, followed by Hannah's Bootshop and William Park's Books...

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

The Indian troops of the British Imperial Army toured New Zealand and visited Palmerston North for a short time. The train stopped in the centre of The Square, the troops disembarked, performed some displays and them re-embarked on the train. For ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 24, 1901

This image is from a series of souvenir cards that show various locations around Palmerston North. This card shows a view of the Te Peeti Te Awe Awe statue and the band rotunda. The rotunda was built in 1907, but pulled down to make way for the Ho...

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1925 to 1930

This rotunda was situated at the Fitzherbert Avenue end of the Victoria Esplanade and was demolished 1966. The bandstand was originally located in The Square but was shifted to the Esplanade in 1907. It was demolished in 1966.

Creator:      R M Greenwood
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

This photograph was taken from the middle of The Square and looks towards Main Street East. The rotunda on the right was the second to sit in The Square. The first, built in 1889, was removed to the Victoria Esplanade to make way for this larger s...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915

This postcard booklet claims to have views of Palmerston North that are the "finest yet published". The front indicates that 12 views were originally included, but only 5 remain.

Creator:      L W Holland
Date:          1910s

This photograph is of Zena Craven standing in front of the band rotunda that once stood in The Square, Palmerston North. The crown was put on the rotunda for the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who visited ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1953 to 1954

To the left of the Band Rotunda is the original All Saints Church. It was replaced with the current brick structure in 1914-1915. On the corner of Church Street and The Square is the Provincial Hotel. It burned down 3 January 1906 and was replaced...

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1902

This image was taken before 1908 when the smaller band rotunda was moved from The Square to The Esplanade.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rangitikei Street
Date:          1900s

A boy stands by the Band Rotunda, with the newly constructed Post Office, on the corner of Main Street, behind. This first Band Rotunda was built in The Square in 1899. It was shifted to The Esplanade in 1907, and replaced by another, which was de...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Date:          1909