One of the original hitching posts for horses, in The Square. Photographs from the time indicate that this post was only one component of the design - the complete design has three such posts supporting a rail to which horses could be tied. It is ...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. It was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. It was originally built with a clock tower but this was removed in 1942 for safe...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1982
This small photograph album belonged to Mrs R Andrews of Rangitikei House. This photograph bears the caption, "View PN from Ross's Building". This photograph was shot from the top of Rosco's Department Store, now the City Library building. The roa...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1928
Still with the railway line going through centre of town.
Place: The Square
Date: 1963
View of The Stunned Mullet in the old Union Bank of Australia building that borders The Square and Coleman Place. Note the 1971 Centennial commemorative plaque on the brickwork, with an angle into Coleman Place as well.
Creator: Isaac Heaphy
Place: 1-3 The Square/Coleman Place
Date: August 12, 2021
The Clock tower was built in the 1950s, with money from Charles Hopwood, a local businessman.
Place: Square Palmerston North
Date: April 29, 2014
Nuwyne Te Awe Awe Mohi, the kaikaranga stands next to Warren Warbrick (Te Awe Awe) who is playing a pūtatara - a traditional trumpet at the start of a ceremony to raise flags on Waitangi Day in Te Marae o Hine (The Square), Palmerston North. Se...
Creator: Virginia Warbrick
Place: Te Marae o Hine
Date: February 6, 2020
Nuwyne Te Awe Awe Mohi, the kaikaranga stands to the right of Warren Warbrick (Te Awe Awe) who is playing a pūtatara - a traditional trumpet at the start of a ceremony to raise flags on Waitangi Day in Te Marae o Hine (The Square), Palmerston N...
Creator: Virginia Warbrick
Place: Te Marae o Hine
Date: February 6, 2020
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On N...
Creator: Te Manawa Museum
Place: Te Marae o Hine
Date: November 16, 2024
Nuwyne Te Awe Awe Mohi, the kaikaranga stands next to Warren Warbrick (Te Awe Awe) who is playing a pūtatara - a traditional trumpet at the start of a ceremony to raise flags on Waitangi Day in Te Marae o Hine (The Square), Palmerston Nor...
Creator: Virginia Warbrick
Place: Te Marae o Hine
Date: February 6, 2020
Sign that gives information about the 'Butterfly Lakelet' in The Square, which was created in 1909. The city's clocktower can be seen reflected in the water!
Creator: Isaac Heaphy
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: November 19, 2021
This plaque on the former Union Bank of Australia building, on the corner of The Square and Coleman Place, commemorates the survey of Palmerston North that began in February 1866 by chief district surveyor John Tiffin Stewart and his crew. The ...
Creator: Isaac Heaphy
Place: 1-3 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: August 12, 2021
Photo taken looking out at The Square in the early evening, from the south eastern corner. In prominence is the Te Awe Awe Statue and the clocktower in green.
Creator: Isaac Heaphy
Place: South-East corner of The Square
Date: June 20, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 6th December 2022. Part 2 of 2. All Saints Church after the fire. Earthquake strengthening issues. Considerations with the Square, alcohol ban, events. Wide streets and tree planting. Walking tr...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 6, 2022
These images were taken for the November 26th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper, the first of which was published.
The short article served as a caption and read: “Beautiful flowers and a beautiful ambassadress from a tropical island....
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Te Marae o Hine, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: November 26, 1978
The Occidental Hotel was erected c.1887 and was destroyed by fire in 1891. A second Occidental Hotel erected on the same site, was also burnt down in 1927. On the far left is the Club Hotel. The four two-storey buildings in the centre of the photo...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890
The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) is on left hand corner, and Leary's Chemist shop (centre) stands between Church and Main Streets east. The bush line around the newly developing town can be seen behind. Fitzherbert Street was renamed Fitzherbert Aven...
Creator: William James Harding
Date: 1878
A road extends from Fitzherbert Street [Fitzherbert Avenue] to the railway tracks in the centre of The Square, from where the photograph has been taken. The building on the right hand corner of Fitzherbert Street is the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1902 to 1905
This postcard shows a view of Fitzherbert Street [Fitzherbert Avenue]. The exact location of this photograph is unknown. The street was named after Mr W A Fitzherbert, civil engineer and first mayor of Lower Hutt.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
A flower garden in The Square planted to celebrate the Women’s Suffrage centennial.
Creator: Patricia Keiller
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1993
One of a series of postcards donated anonymously to the Ian Matheson City Archives. The postcards are addressed variously to a Mrs R. Fergusson of Rose Bank, Halcombe and Miss Elsie Simpson of Manchester Street, Feilding.
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1910 to 1914
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
Te Peeti Te Awe Awe (c1820-1884), a chief of the Rangitāne tribe, was involved with negotiations and the sale of Māori Land for the opening up of the Manawatu for pakeha settlement. A marble statue of Te Peeti was installed in The Square, Palmerst...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1907
When the Palmerston North City Library moved from the corner of Main Street East and The Square to its present location in the old CM Ross Building, a book chain was undertaken to commemorate the occasion. Here we see local children participating ...
Creator: Suzanne Kilsby
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1996
This photograph consists of two views. One is of the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the Post Office (erected 1905-1906 in the background. The second is of the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the with the Occidental Hotel in ...
Creator: A Rickard, Palmerston North
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1910 to 1925
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 is of The Square - Main Street is shown running through the middle of the image. Prominent features of this postcard are the band rotunda and the old Post Office. The original, smaller, structure was built 1899 and moved to the Victo...
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1909
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 August 1958, page 6: "Members of No. 14 Squadron, recently returned from Malaya, paraded in the Square yesterday. Although the weather was dismal it was a poor crowd ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: August 12, 1958
ANZAC Day Dawn Parade 2018, The Square, Palmerston North
Creator: PNCC
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 25, 2018
A display of poppies made of flax and woven by the community for ANZAC Day 2016 in The Square, Palmerston North.
Creator: Steph
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 22, 2016