Cars are parked by flower beds in bloom at the Victoria Esplanade.

Creator:      Clarice Parlane
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

Pat and Jan playing in the garden of the Hayes family home at 11 Anderson Street, Palmerston North.

Creator:      Thomas Hayes [?]
Place:          11 Anderson Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1953

Two young girls in swimming suits making 'daisy chains' in The Square. The girls are believed to be the photographer's daughters Joan MacKay and Shirley MacKay.

Creator:      John MacKay
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1963

Three young children in swimming suits sitting on the Peeti Te Awe Awe statue in The Square. The children are believed to be the photographer's children - Keith MacKay, Joan MacKay and Shirley MacKay. Behind can be seen the PDC department store.

Creator:      John MacKay
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1963

Three children in swimming suits sitting on the Peeti Te Awe Awe statue in The Square. The children are believed to be the photographer's children - Keith MacKay, Joan MacKay and Shirley MacKay.

Creator:      John MacKay
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1963

The DIC building on the corner of George Street and Coleman Mall in December 2023.  The building was constructed as part of the C M Ross department store in 1915. C M Ross was sold to Milne and Choyce in 1959, then to the DIC in 1969. Curr...

Creator:      JAR
Place:          George Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 19, 2023

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 December 1958: "On the first day of the Manawatu Racing Club's summer meeting at Awapuni on Saturday many were seen discussing the form of their fancied runners. Thes...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Racecourse Road, Palmerston North
Date:          December 22, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 December 1962, "The paddling pool in the Esplanade is still one of the greatest attractions for children during the summer months. This morning was no exception. Tw...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          December 29, 1962

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 December 1958: "Two Pahiatua visitors to the Woodville District Jockey Club's meeting on Saturday last were Miss Judith Watson (left) and Miss Lesley Holland. Being a...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Woodville
Date:          December 8, 1958

An unidentified group of children wearing sunhats, pictured with a group of adults, perhaps their carers or teachers. They are in front of the pavilion at Papaioea Park, corner of Ruahine Street and Featherston Street.

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

A view of the outdoor swimming pool at the Lido Swimming Complex, Palmerston North. Situated on Park Street, this is still a popular swimming spot for the people of Palmerston North. The pool was planned in 1964, building got under was 23 January ...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Park Road, Palmerston North
Date:          1970

The fountains were presented to Palmerston North in memory of her son Edmund "Laurie" Holland in December, 1966. This fountain is part of the Lakelet - opened in 1909. It is sometimes referred to as the "Butterfly Pond", due to it being shaped lik...

Creator:      Bruce Watt
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1971

A groups of friends on a swimming excursion to the Manawatu River, accessed at the end of Albert Street, Palmerston North. From left: Tom Bainbridge; Margaret Greatorex (later Hansen); Patricia Hayes (later Eaton); Pete Hansen; Ross Greatorex.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 1958

Bledisloe Park was a favourite picnic and swimming hole for many families. Pat and Diane are the children of Thomas and Freda Hayes of Palmerston North.

Creator:      Thomas Hayes [?]
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1951

Home movie of the Smith family during summer.

Includes footage of working around home - making a trailer, concreting, dismantling a car; weddings; a 'pop group' in a studio and playing in the The Square; Victoria Esplanade Gardens; city lights at...

Creator:      Wallace Smith
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

The centre of this image is the King Edward VII Memorial Fountain, with people sit in the benches that surround it. The photograph shows it in on its second site, in the middle of the pond near the Coleman Mall corner of The Square. The fountain w...

Creator:      Clarice Parlane
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

A bed of flowers planted in front of the Phoenix Palms that line Palm Drive in the Victoria Esplanade Gardens.

Creator:      Clarice Parlane
Place:          Victoria Esplanade Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

This swing is situated near one of the tracks around Waitoetoe Park nestled near the treeline. "It's such a beautiful spot and so peaceful for something like the simple pleasure of a gentle sway on a warm sunny day" - from the photographer.

Creator:      Christina Winitana
Place:          Waitoetoe Park, Palmerston North
Date:          February 21, 2016

This photograph shows a view of The Square. It is from a series of framed photographs that were rescued from a local dumpster.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1970s

The Rongotea Methodist Bible Class picnic held at Tangimoana. On the right hand side are Jack Darling and Emily Thompson (Hill).

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tangimoana
Date:          circa 1910

Watchorn's Ltd were founded in Palmerston North in 1923 as a high quality department store, specialising in crockery, fancy goods and household hardware.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Pohangina
Date:          1930s

This small photograph album belonged to Mrs R Andrews of Rangitikei House. This photograph bears the caption, "Esplanade P.N."

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1927

Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897. The pergola in the background was built c 1916-1917 and the band rotunda moved from The Square to the gardens in 1907. Both were...

Creator:      G F Framjee
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939

This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 March 1956 with the caption: "Little Judith Urquhart (left), the winner of the decorated doll's pram section at Milverton Park Kindergarten's gala day last Saturday, is seen with another e...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          120 Victoria Avenue, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1956

The elephants, from Bullens Circus, carried 5 ‘leading personalities’, as they raced for the ‘Carnival Cup’ at Carnival Track (thought to be at the Esplanade). The Carnival of the Lake was centred around Centennial Lake, and was an annual event or...

Creator:      Colin Rush
Place:          The Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          January 18, 1963

A sunny day in The Square is captured in this 1960s slide. The prominent building is the PDC - which once stood on the corner of The Square and Church Street East, where the Plaza Shopping Mall does now [2016].

Creator:      Clarice Parlane
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

A sunny day in the Square is captured in this 1960s slide. The prominent building is the C M Ross Co Ltd building - now the City Library [2016].

Creator:      Clarice Parlane
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

The fishpond and gardens were designed and constructed by the Beautifying Society in 1906. The fountain was made of concrete and the central rockery of concrete and stone. The quadrant was intersected with diagonal paths, converging on the fish po...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915

Pat Hayes (later Eaton) was the Doolan family babysitter. From left: Pat; Raewyn Doolan; Fluff the cat. At the Doolan home in Parata Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Parata street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1953

This photograph looks across the Square towards Church Street West. This quadrant of The Square features a lakelet which was opened in 1909. The All Saints Church can be seen through the trees, while the Grand Hotel (built in 1906) stands on the c...

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939