A view of Main Street from the Hopwood Clock Tower during the early 1960s.

The cleared construction site was to be used for Palmerston North's new 3-storey library on the corner of Main Street and The Square, opposite the Post Office. Constructio...

Creator:      Ian Palmer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa July 1963

Watson Bros commenced in the early 1860s as the "Ready Money Store" which in turn was purchased by Joseph Nathan & Co Ltd. In succeeding years it became part of Manawatu Farmer's Co.op Assn Ltd, then Farmers Alliance Co finally the United Farmers ...

Creator:      Peter Patten
Place:          97-99 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1983

This photograph shows the view up Main Street East, along the railway line that once ran through The Square. It was probably taken from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower (completed in 1957). A railway service between Wellington and Palmerston Nor...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          since 1956

This photograph shows the shops on the corner of Ruahine Street and Main Street. From left: McKinnon's, a bicycle store; Rana and Co, a fruiterers; Watson Brothers; the Post Office.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1955

Mr Bill Coombes retired in December 1973 after more than fifty years as a trade unionist. In 1917, he organised Hawke's Bay grocers in to a Branch of the Wellington Grocer's Union. In 1935, he went to Wellington as general secretary of the Welling...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1973

Watson Brothers Ltd and the Meteor Cinema decorated for Queen Elizabeth II visit to Palmerston North.

Creator:      Colin Rush
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          January 1954

This photograph was taken from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower when it was being constructed in 1956.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1956

This photograph of The Square looks along the eastern side of The Square, from near the Church Street corner, past Main Street to Broadway. The building in the centre is the Post Office on the corner of Main Street. While this building still stand...

Creator:      Evening Post, Wellington
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

This photograph could have possibly have been taken from the Grand Hotel, which stands on the corner of The Square and Church Street West. The statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe was erected in 19070 and the little building in the foreground is an obser...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1907 to 1909

Bertie (Bert) Albert was born 2 January, 1883 at 75 Venue Street in Bromley, Poplar, Country of Middlesex, London. His family migrated to New Zealand in 1910 on the Arawa, arriving in Wellington in 1911. Bert worked in one of the dairy factories i...

Creator:      Bertie (Bert) Albert
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1914

This postcard looks from The Lakelet towards the south-east section of The Square, between the corners of Main Street East and Fitzherbert Avenue.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          circa 1915