This colour photograph looks toward Broadway Avenue from Church Street. Buildings include the Public Library building 1965-1996 (green tinted window shades) and Post Office 1905-1988, on opposite sides of Main Street. The towered building is the A...

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

The Meteor movie theatre was built by Maurice Millar of Millar and Giorgi, a menswear store. It was opened in the era of the 'talkies', in September 1937, on the eastern side of The Square. It had a capacity of 940 and was considered one of the mo...

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940

The observatory was erected in the south-west quadrant of The Square in 1906. It was demolished in 1938 after repeated bouts of vandalism and the increase in light pollution in The Square lessened its usefullness. The Lakelet constructed 1909, can...

Creator:      Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd
Date:          circa 1915