Looking down Church Street East side of The Square, from near the corner of Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue). The businesses from right: J A Nash's store and commission agency (he was Mayor from 1908-1923); Hardy's Adelaide Wines, General Merchants...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Date:          1904

Warnock, Kelly & Adkin were a firm of Wellington drapers who opened a Palmerston North branch in the two-story building seen in the photograph. The building had been erected in 1882 as Mr James Linton's Land Office and stood on the corner of Main ...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

Buildings, from left: Brick Hairdressers; H.F. Bishop Fruiterer; Waugh Tailor; Whitehead and Ellise Confectioners; A.L. Westmoreland Bookseller and Stationer; ? a restaurant or cafe; Watson Brothers Ltd (this premises was once the home of the Farm...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1920 to 1923

This is an enlargement of one section from the Public Collection Photograph Sq 34 and shows a very early view of Church Street East. Most of the visible buildings are early residences, but the building partially visible on the far left appears to ...

Creator:      E E Caney
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1878

This photograph looks down Broadway Avenue from The Square. The building under construction is that of the Temperance and General Mutual Life Society Building, an insurance company that operated in Australia and New Zealand. In the 1920s and 1930s...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1937

Broad Street was renamed Broadway in the 1920s. At the time that this photograph was taken, the "Times" building was still owned by C Smith Ltd, but the scaffolding in front could be connected with its purchase and renovation by the newspaper in 1...

Creator:      H Billens and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1929

This postcard reads: "Am all alone tonight the family having left with the washing GY (?)". The image looks from the corner of Broadway Avenue down towards Church Street, with Main Street East on the left about centre of the photograph. From left:...

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

Visible in this photograph are: The PDC Department Store (built in 1930); the Band Rotunda (built 1907, demolished 1956); War Memorial (built in 1925).

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1935

The east section of the gardens are in front, with the statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe behind (built in 1907). The Clarendon Hotel is on the back right on the photo (rebuilt in 1904)

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1904 to 1907

This photograph shows the length of the Square between Church Street East (background) and Broadway Avenue/Coleman Place (foreground). The Grand Hotel is on the left. Main Street West is in the centre of the photograph with the King Edward Commemo...

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

[1] JH Wiltshire, clothier and mercer; [2] Hotter Brothers, grocers; [3] Ladies' Model Store (LMS). Butter and Englebretson, Drapers; [4]"The Don", Millar and Giorgi, men's outfitters (established 1902); [5] The United Farmers Co-Operative Associa...

Creator:      Crown Studios [?]
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1907

This postcard looks down Church Street probably from the top of All Saints Church to the corner of Church Street East and The Square. To the left is the Statue of Te Awe Awe (constructed 1907). The buildings on The Square include: A Stanton's conf...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1915

The gun in the Square was placed there in May 1909. The Lakelet built in October 1909 is not in this photograph. The Grand Hotel was built in 1906 and the Daily Times newspaper was at this site from 1890s to 1913. The Daily Times newspaper on Chur...

Creator:      Ernest Denton
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1909

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

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

This postcard looks down Church Street from the corner of Church Street West and The Square to the corner of Church Street East and The Square. From left: The Municipal Offices building was constructed in 1890 and was first used as the Colonial Ba...

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

Looking down Broad Street from The Square in Palmerston North. Broad Street was renamed Broadway in the 1920s. From left: The Waldegrave Building, built 1894, was occupied by Gerrands (Watchmakers, proprietor John B Gerrand), Stockwell Brothers (D...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1904 to 1907

This postcard looks up Broad Street, now Broadway Avenue, from the Square. The visible buildings, from left, are: the Royal Hotel; NZ Clothing Factory. The yellow building on the right is the Bank of Australasia, constructed around 1878. See Sq22.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1894 to 1915