The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activites, and events. This month's issue includes: archives photo, new bridge, Civic Administration Building, civ...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 2007

This viaduct is 258 feet high. It was built by Andersons Ltd, at a cost of £53,369, out of fabricated steel. It was built to take the the 11.5 axle load of the "X" class engine, and therefore had to be strengthened before the "K", with its 14.5 t...

Creator:      Frederick Radcliffe
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

A film believed to have been taken by Rod Matheson featuring the last train trip through Square, and the demolition of the station and yards over three years. Features some double exposure of Pipe bands and Marching scenes in a parade.

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Creator:      Rod Matheson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. This bridge could be a different angle of the Fernhill Bridge over the Ngaruroro River in Hawkes Bay.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. This bridge could be a different angle of the Fernhill Bridge over the Ngaruroro River in Hawkes Bay.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 August 1960 "The final pylon is well under way for the new overhead bridge at the Rangitikei Street entrance to the city. The photograph shows the pylon under constru...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rangitikei Line, Palmerston North
Date:          August 22, 1960

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 July 1961 "The Minister if Education and the Member of Parliament for the district (Mr. W.B. Tennent) cuts the ribbon un the opening ceremony of the new Mangaone brid...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Pioneer Highway, Palmerston North
Date:          July 10, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 16 January, 1964. "A frogman, Mr Clive Lohta, certainly made some strange finds when grubbing on the bed of the Centennial Lake yesterday morning. He was clearing underw...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          January 15, 1964

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 January, 1964. "Two of the five Royal New Zealand divers testing equipment at Centennial Lake. The picture shows one skin diver jumping into the water while another l...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          January 17, 1964

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 June 1958, page 8: "Today's warm weather after the frost was a complete change from the recent gales. Here Peter Ronowicz, being held by his sister Pat, enjoys the su...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          June 5, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 April 1958, page 8: "The picture is of the original rustic bridge in the Square Gardens, which was opened by the then Mayor, the late Mr. J.A. Nash in 1910. This str...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 5, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 February, 1958, page 6: "An unusual view of a landmark well known to Palmerstonians, the Fitzherbert Bridge as seen from the water's edge to the north of the bridge."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date:          February 11, 1958

This image was not taken published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 January, 1964. [Royal New Zealand divers test equipment at Centennial Lake for the Palmerston North Carnival of the Lake." See also: 2017N_2017-20_018312, 2017N_2017-...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          January 17, 1964

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 June 1961 "Motor traffic today used the overhead bridge on Rangitikei Line. Sealing of the approaches to the bridge has still to be completed and many soft spots are ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rangitikei Line, Palmerston North
Date:          June 20, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 April 1961 "Billy Sutton, doing a spot of quiet fishing for eels, reflects on the effects of the splashes of a canoeist on his chances. He was fishing from the bridge...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Centennial lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          April 1, 1961

The lakelet was constructed in 1909, in the shape of a butterfly, with the bridge across it depicting its body. There have been 4 bridges built across the lakelet, this being the third one. It was replaced by a new bridge in 2004. Beyond can be s...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1988

The lakelet was constructed in 1909, in the shape of a butterfly, with the bridge across it depicting its body. There have been 4 bridges built across the lakelet, this being the third one. It was replaced by a new bridge in 2004. Beyond can be s...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1988

The lakelet was constructed in 1909, in the shape of a butterfly, with the bridge across it depicting its body. There have been 4 bridges built across the lakelet, this being the third one. It was replaced by a new bridge in 2004.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1988

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Unidentified bridge.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Unidentified bridge.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Ron Grammer is on top of a Bulls Bridge pile.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s Oroua Bridge, Kopane.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammers working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Whirokino Bridge near completion, 1944.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1944

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Waitaki hydro 1950's.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1950s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Oroua Bridge, Kopane.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Here Charlie Rope is climbing a tower to join Ron Grammer.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Ron Grammer is on top of a Bulls Bridge pile.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Ron Grammer's hut can be seen in the corner of the photo, with Whirokino old road on right, straight to new bridge.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Waiho River Bridge, 1949.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1949

One of a group of photographs from Ron Grammer's working life in bridge engineering in the 1940s and 1950s. Bulls Bridge.

Creator:      Grammer family

Date:          1940s