Looking down Main Street West towards Coleman Place (now Coleman Mall). Walkley's Commercial and Family Hotel was built in 1881. It was previously occupied by the Commercial Hotel. The Standard building alongside the hotel is the first home of the...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          January 1882 to March 1882

A close examination of this original print shows that the names on the buildings correspond almost exactly to the names of the business proprietors listed in the Times on 24 November 1884 (see Petersen 1952, p 101). However, the sixth shop past th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885