The Esplanade Rose Garden (now known as the Dugald MacKenzie Rose Garden) was opened in 1968. The garden is also home of the New Zealand Rose Society International Rose Trial Grounds.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Counc...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1968 to 1970s
Photo showing the demolition of the Massey Vet Tower, November 2022
Creator: Ben Foster
Date: November 13, 2022
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 9 January, 1959. "Only Shirley is not interested in the fish as the camera catches the Davis family, from Rata, gazing into the fish pond in the Square gardens this morn...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 9, 1959
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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard 5th January, 1963. "With beautiful sunny weather for the holidays, Miss L. Morpeth, of Palmerston North (left), took her friend from Whangarei, Miss K. Mulholland, to the s...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: January 5, 1963
The Butterfly Lakelet was constructed in 1909 by the then Beautification Society. The fountains were added in the 1960s.
Taken by 'Photo Instruments' when testing a camera or lens. Photo Instruments originally operated in Rangitikei Street, with ...
Creator: Merlyn or Alfred Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
The Victoria Esplanade gardens were opened in 1897, in the year of Queen Victoria's 60 years on the throne.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1957
The Victoria Esplanade gardens were opened in 1897, in the year of Queen Victoria's 60 years on the throne.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1957
Wetlands were created at Norton Park in 2016 to replace an open drain and to provide ongoing stormwater treatment. 12,000 aquatic and terrestrial plants were planted to help extract pollutants and improve water quality.
The drain was once part of...
Creator: Brian Way for PNCC
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 2016
A photograph from the newly constructed Civic Administration Building. The Butterly lakelet was constructed in 1909 by the Beautification Society. The fountains were a later addition in the 1960s.
It was so called because of its shape, with the b...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Te Marae o Hine/The Square
Date: 1980s
A pair of ducks by Butterfly Lakelet in The Square, when the fountains are on. In the background, partially obscured by the greenery, can be seen the Farmers Mutual House, Manawatū Standard building, Square Edge and All Saints' Church.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1990s
Looking across Butterfly Lakelet to the corner of Church Street and The Square. The Manawatū Standard building, Square Edge and All Saints' Church can be seen the background. The NZ Post office is also just visible, to the right, through the plants.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1990s
In the foreground is part of the Butterfly Lakelet and bridge. The Manawatū Standard building and Square Edge can be seen in the background.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1990s
Part of the Butterfly Lakelet can be seen in the foreground. Square Edge, All Saints' Church and The Grand Hotel feature in the background, on the corner of The Square and Church Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Church Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1990s
Looking across Butterfly Lakelet and its bridge, to the corner of The Square and Church Street West.
From the left of the picture, in the background can be seen the Manawatū Standard building, Square Edge, All Saints' Church and the NZ Post offic...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 199X
This image comes from a series of slides taken around Palmerston North in the late 1950s. Many show scenes in The Victoria Esplanade Gardens, but other areas and events around the city are also represented.
Creator: S. A. Free
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
This photograph is of two little boys perched on one of the cannons in the Square. The photographer is looking east towards the PDC building (now the Plaza). This gun was installed in 1909 and removed during the 1940s. Cannons were purchased by th...
Creator: Tanner Bros
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
The Butterfly Lakelet was constructed in 1909 by the then Beautification Society. The fountains were added in the 1960s.
Taken by 'Photo Instruments' when testing a camera or lens. Photo Instruments originally operated in Rangitikei Street, with ...
Creator: Merlyn or Alfred Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
Looking across the fountains in the pond, in the Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden. The gardens, situated in the Victoria Esplanade, are named after a former curator, and are also a rose trials ground.
The photograph was taken by Alf and Merlyn Drew, t...
Creator: Alf or Merlyn Drew
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue
Date: 1970s
Children feeding the ducks at the Butterfly lakelet in The Square. The lakelet was created in the shape of a butterfly in 1909, and the fountains were added in 1966.
The photograph was taken by Alf and Merlyn Drew, to test equipment for their bu...
Creator: Alf or Merlyn Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
The Butterfly Lakelet was constructed in 1909 by the then Beautification Society. The fountains were added in the 1960s.
Taken by 'Photo Instruments' when testing a camera or lens. Photo Instruments originally operated in Rangitikei Street, with ...
Creator: Merlyn or Alfred Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 198X
The Butterfly Lakelet was constructed in 1909 by the then Beautification Society. The fountains were added in the 1960s.
Taken by 'Photo Instruments' when testing a camera or lens. Photo Instruments originally operated in Rangitikei Street, with ...
Creator: Merlyn or Alfred Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
A view of the Lakelet quadrant in The Square, looking across to the corner of Church Street west. From left: The Manawatu Standard building (obscured by trees), the Municipal Chambers of the Palmerston North City Council (obscured by trees), All S...
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: 338 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 13, 1967
The Victoria Esplanade gardens were opened in 1897.
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: February 4, 1964
This image comes from a series of slides taken around Palmerston North in the late 1950s. Many show scenes in The Victoria Esplanade Gardens, but other areas and events around the city are also represented.
Creator: S. A. Free
Place: Victoria Esplanade Drive, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
Creator: Leah Simon
Place: Victoria Esplanade Gardens, Palmerston North
Date: June 4, 2018
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
The staggering sound of croaking drew me towards the pond where, although not visible in this photo, there was an abundance of extremely well camouflaged frogs.
Creator: Christina Winitana
Date: January 11, 2017
The lakelet in The Square was created in 1909 as part of the work of the Beautification Society of the time. the fountains were added later, in the 1960s. Taken by 'Photo Instruments' when testing a camera or lens. Photo Instruments originally ope...
Creator: Merlyn or Alfred Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
A view of a pond and gardens on The Esplanade.
Creator: A. B. Hurst and Son Photo
Place: The Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: 1940 to circa 1949