New Year Greeting Postcard and Calendar
This postcard has an image of the middle of The Square surrounded by a calendar for the year 1911.
Creator: Aldersley Series
Date: 1910
This postcard has an image of the middle of The Square surrounded by a calendar for the year 1911.
Creator: Aldersley Series
Date: 1910
The King Edward VII Coronation Memorial Fountain, also known as the Coronation Monument was built in 1902 to mark the coronation of Edward VII. In 1925, it was combined with another feature of The Square, the concrete fish pond. The monument was m...
Creator: S. A. Free
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
The Coronation Fountain was built in 1902 to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. It has been moved several times - once to the corner of the Square near the City Library to make way for the War Memorial (built 1925) and again in 2005 to the co...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1910
An interesting view of how the fountain in the Square used to look before the addition of the spire from the Coronation Monument (also visible) was added (thus creating the Coronation Fountain). This image is looking across the Square to Church St...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1908
This postcard is part of a panorama taken from the Clarendon Hotel corner. 2014P_Sq93_008870 shows a more westerly view, although some of the details are identical. Alterations to the Bank of New Zealand (corner of Square and Fitzherbert Avenue) t...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1909 to 1910
Looking across the Square to Church Street East and Fitzherbert Avenue. The railway line is visible over the tops of the trees. The buildings are: [1] The Club Hotel on the extreme left (yellow building). [2] W F Durward, drapers (on site from 190...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1902
John Tidball, a Palmerston North commercial artist, trained at Harrow School of Art in England. He lived in Australia for 15 years and then moved to Palmerston North. He now lives in Ashhurst and continues to paint [2018]. These six sketches show ...
Creator: John Tidball
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1986
A colourised postcard of The Square was taken after 1902, when the statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe was constructed, but before 1907, when the small Rotunda was shifted to the Victoria Esplanade Gardens.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1902 to 1907