Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 15th August 2023. Part 2 of 4.  Worked in Bennetts for 7 years. Wife at Teachers College, bond cancelled when became pregnant. Selling Christian books. Joined a Christian Community of Celebration in En...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          August 15, 2023

G H Bennetts, established 1891, constructed this building c1917-1918. The shop front was renovated in 1965. Bennett was instrumental in changing the name of Broad Street into Broadway, which became official in 1926.

Creator:      Peter Patten
Place:          34-36 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1988

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1961 "Ten members of the French Rugby team were present at Messrs. G.H. Bennett and Coy's shop and were "mobbed" by autograph hunters as they signed copies of ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          August 1, 1961

Photograph of a North Island Furniture truck with a promotional banner advertising "Broadway" School Stationery, parked outside the G.H. Bennetts bookshop in Broadway Avenue. Two men have a trolley jack loaded with boxes of stationery.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1960

The fountain in the foreground of this postcard once stood is in western quadrant of The Square, in front of where the Central Library now sits [2017]. It is shown here before the Coronation monument for Edward VII was added on top (1925). The bui...

Creator:      Aldersley Series

Date:          1912

This postcard shows The Square as it was around 1915. Note the spire of the old St Patricks Church, Palmerston North to the right of of General Post Office.

Creator:      Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd

Date:          circa 1915

Whitcoulls on Broadway, formerly Bennett's Bookshop, closes after over 125 years in business as a bookstore and over 100 years in the building.

Taken on an Huawei GR5 (KII-L22) mobile phone.

Creator:      Daniel Straman
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          May 15, 2018

A view of Broadway Avenue, looking in the direction of Princess Street. It includes the Broadway entrance to the Downtown movie theatre. This slide is from a series that was possibly taken for publicity purposes. Based on other images in the set, ...

Creator:      Unknown - possibly PNCC
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1994 to 1995

Mr Horn was born in Palmerston North on 1 September 1917. He was educated at the Nelson Park School, Boys High School in Napier and Victoria University. He graduated LLB and practiced as a barrister and solicitor in New Plymouth (1947-1967). He wa...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1975

Hopwoods Hardware established this frontage for their business in Broadway in 1962, when they extended through from Main Street. This building was demolished for the Downtown Mall, c 1989. G H Bennetts, established 1891, constructed this building ...

Creator:      Matt Ryan
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1988

This postcard from the early 1900s gives a clear view of The Square. Some of the visible features are the band rotunda (built 1907, domed structure on left), the Lakelet (opened 1909, foreground), the Te Awe Awe statue at right(erected 1907) and t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This Post Office was erected in 1889 on the corner of Main Street West and The Square. In 1905, it was moved around the corner to face onto Main Street West and a new Post Office was built. This earlier post office was then used an an extension of...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1981

This postcard shows the lakelet and cannon in one quadrant of the Square. Two cannons, surplus to Defence Department requirements, were acquired by the City Council and displayed in the Square from 1909-1939. The Lakelet was built in 1909 by the B...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915

Postcard taken from Church Street, looking across the Lakelet to the Post Office on the corner of Main Street.

Creator:      Tanner Brothers
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1910 to 1915

The rose gardens in The Square were laid in the early 1900s. Also shown in this photograph are the Statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe (built 1907) and to the left of that the old Post Office. This was Palmerston North's fourth Post Office and was built...

Creator:      H Billens and Co.
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915

Broadway Avenue, originally Broad Street, Palmerston North, was renamed, at the instigation of G H Bennett, bookseller, and other retailers, by Borough Council resolution in March 1926. The T and G Building, seen to the left was completed in 1937 ...

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940

Looking across the quadrant of The Square near Broadway.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This photograph looks out over The Square towards the old Post Office. The small structure behind the line of carts and carriages is a taxi stand. The street that bisects the photograph horizontally is Rangitikei Street, which used to run in to Th...

Creator:      John Halford Perrin
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          unknown to 1908

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 photograph shows the section of The Square between Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue) and Main Street East. On the left is the Collinson and Cunninghame building after the extensions had been made to the original site. This new extension gave...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1911 to 1918

A postcard of the newly built Chief Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street East. Built in 1906, the Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street was Palmerston North’s fourth, and replaced a small wooden building on the...

Creator:      Unknown

Date:          1906 to circa 1910