Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 1961
Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 1961
This postcard shows a view of Rangitikei Street from the Square. The building on the right is Crawford's Royal Hotel, which was established in Palmerston North about 1871. Over the years the building was repeatedly enlarged and improved. In 1915, ...
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
This street is named for Mr John James Waldegrave, who owned the land. Mr JJ Waldegrave put through nine chains (chain = 66 feet/20.12 metres) from the Cuba Street end in 1875, D.P. 22, se...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2025
This image was taken by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine, and was published in the August 1963 edition.
"After a steady downpour for several hours during a dinner break early this month stormwater drains were blocked in many part...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1963
Erected in 1898 to replace the previous Dawick’s Buffet (a temperance hotel/boarding-house and restaurant that burnt down on 3rd October 1897), this building’s unknown architect was possibly Ernest Larcomb, who had a professional and social relati...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 44 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 2020
This photograph shows a wide angle view of Rangitikei Street in the 1920s. From left: Mounsey and Co Auctioneers and Land Agents; Adam Burges Ford Cars; P & D Duncan Implements; A Burges Garage; The New Royal Hotel. The original Royal Hotel was pu...
Creator: R P Moore, Wellington
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
This fountain is in western quadrant - this photograph shows it before the Coronation monument for Edward VII was added on top (1925). The three-storied brick Clarendon Hotel was constructed in 1904, after fire had destroyed the earlier wooden hot...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1906 to 1915
This photograph was taken from the top of the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd (T&G) building.
Creator: F A Tier
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The photographer appears to be standing on the balcony of the Commercial Hotel and is looking across the Square gardens towards Rangitikei Street. The Clarendon Hotel (far left) stands on the western corner white the large wooden Royal Hotel stand...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
This fountain is in western quadrant - this photograph shows it before the Coronation monument for Edward VII was added on top (1925). The three-storied brick Clarendon Hotel (visible behind) was constructed in 1904, after fire had destroyed the e...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The stereoscope photograph looks up Broad Street (later Broadway Avenue) from The Square.
Creator: A W Schaef
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1900 to 1910
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