Looking down Church Street East side of The Square, from near the corner of Fitzherbert Street (now Avenue). The businesses from right: J A Nash's store and commission agency (he was Mayor from 1908-1923); Hardy's Adelaide Wines, General Merchants...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
The C M Ross Building is seen here decorated to celebrate the coronation of King George VI in 1937. The main C M Ross Co building was built in 1927 to replace the ageing buildings used previously. This building has been owned by a variety of entit...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
This photograph is believed to have been taken as a publicity image.
Creator: John Cleland
Date: 1970s
This photograph showing an arrangement of sleeping bags was presumably taken as an advertising image for an unknown retailer.
Creator: John Cleland
Date: 1960s
Garners began in The Square, Palmerston North 7 February 1906 with a small drapery business. Three years later Miss M M Garner went into business with her brothers and they became “Garner and Garner'. In 1923 K M Garner joined the firm, later bec...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960
This postcard of the Square shows the South side of the Square, from Church Street West to Main Street West. The buildings, from left, are: the old All Saints Church, The Grand Hotel, The Daily Times, Watchorn's Jewellers, R Hannah Bootmaker, Will...
Creator: W Park No W P 10
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906 to circa 1910
A J Berryman purchased the music shop business of J P Leary in The Square in 1920, carrying on this business. In 1932 he purchased a section in Broadway Avenue and constructed new premises. Two years later these were enlarged to cover practically ...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
The grove is named to honour the contribution of the Macpherson family to commerce in Palmerston North. April 2018.
From the late 1890s, Macpherson family businesses have included: grocery, apparel,...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2025
Bruce McKenzie Booksellers offering a 'Click and Collect' contactless customer pick-up service as per the COVID-19 level 3 restrictions.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 37 George Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 28, 2020
Bruce McKenzie has been a local identity in book selling for many years. He spent 26 years with G H Bennett & Co Ltd on Broadway, Palmerston North, 12 years in publishing sales in Wellington, and in 1996 opened Bruce McKenzie Booksellers, in Georg...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 24, 2021
The $40,000 Coleman Mall redevelopment was opened on 27 July 1973 by the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr B.G.C. Elwood. The work was done by Palmerston North City Council workmen except for the asphalting of the parking and pedestrian areas.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date: 1973
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on October 1960 "Staff at Woolworths : Mr. D. Baikie (seen in the sporting goods section holding a fishing rod)."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: October 19, 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 4 December, 1959. “The field of retailing is one in which any young man or woman can be sure of a prosperous and secure future. The economists predict that New Zealand ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1959
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
The Nonpareil Cycle and Motor Company was originally established in Ghuznee Street, Wellington. In November 1906 this company bought out the Palmerston North firm of Clarkson and Co. in order to establish its headquarters in Palmerston North. Mes...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906
H I Christensen outside his Pohangina store. See 2007n_poh8_rtl_0854 for an earlier view of the store.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pohangina
Date: circa 1913
H I Christensen with a team of horses ready to make a delivery from his Pohangina Store. See 2007n_poh8_rtl_0854 for an earlier view of the store.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pohangina, Manawatu
Date: circa 1913
This image ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 14 1960 with the caption, "Large crowds, mostly women, appear to be making last-minute attempts to buy presents. This photo shows a normally quiet crossing in the morning, patronised by s...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Rangitikei Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: December 1960
Garners began in The Square, Palmerston North 7 February 1906 with a small drapery business. Three years later Miss M M Garner & Miss H M Garner went into business with her brother Henry they became “Garner and Garner'. In 1930 Keith Garner joi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960
Henry Garner opened a drapery store in 1906 under the name ‘Kash’, with the first premises being in The Square and later, Cuba Street. In 1937 the store moved to a new building in Broadway, on the former Zealandia Hall site. In the 1960s the store...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Between Main Street and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959
The exterior of McLeod and Svendsen, an electrical appliances store on the Square in Feilding. The business promoted itself as "Electrical engineers and contractors, agents for Hart Accuulator Co. Ltd, New Stock Torches, Torch Batteries and Bulbs"...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 97 Fergusson Street, Feilding
Date: circa 1930
A window display showcasing Evereday Batteries at McLeod and Svendsen, an electrical appliances store on the Square in Feilding. The business promoted itself as "Electrical engineers and contractors, agents for Hart Accuulator Co. Ltd, New Stock T...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 97 Fergusson Street, Feilding
Date: 1950s
The showroom at McLeod and Svendsen, an electrical appliances store on the Square in Feilding. The business promoted itself as "Electrical engineers and contractors, agents for Hart Accuulator Co. Ltd, New Stock Torches, Torch Batteries and Bulbs"...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 97 Fergusson Street, Feilding
Date: circa 1925 to 1930
Watchorns was formerly on the corner of Albert St and Broadway, Palmerston North. It was founded in 1923 as a partnership and known as Watchorn and McNaught. It specialised in crockery fancy goods and house hold items.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: 162 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1937
The business, located at 162-163 The Square (between Rangitikei Street and Broadway Avenue), was founded in 1923 as Watchorn and McNaught, but was soon taken over and operated solely by Mr G Watchorn as Watchhorns Ltd.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 162 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1926
Speechley's, Corset and Hosiery Specialists, operated at 415 Main Street, Palmerston North, between c1933 - 1981. Mrs Thelma Speechley, ran the business as a drapery in the 1930s. To the left can be seen the corner of George and Main Streets.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 415 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1939
This dairy is the oldest retail business in Terrace End still open, trading under the name Candy Corner (2009). The shop was opened in 1906 by James Butcher. Since then it has had many owners and traded under several names. In 1934 it was known as...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 186 Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
Watchorns Ltd, located at 162-163 The Square, was founded in 1923 as Watchorn and McNaught, but was soon taken over and operated solely by Mr G Watchorn. This view is of the houseware department. The window display features Gillette products. Watc...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1930 to 1939
Watchorns Ltd, located at 162-163 The Square, was founded in 1923 as Watchorn and McNaught, but was soon taken over and operated solely by Mr G Watchorn. The china is the 'Harvest Poppy' crockery design made in England.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1920s
Watchorns Ltd, located at 162-163 The Square, was founded in 1923 as Watchorn and McNaught, but was soon taken over and operated solely by Mr G Watchorn. This view is of the houseware department.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1970 to circa 1999