Looking down Main Street, into The Square of Palmerston North. The band rotunda, demolished 1956, can be seen past the railway signals.

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

Para Rubber was once located on 268 Cuba street. The building pictured is still standing today [2016].

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North

This photograph shows a bustling street scene on Main Street West. The advertisement for the Convent Carnival dates this to sometime in 1905 - the carnival itself took place in early November. A crowd has gathered outside Childs Commercial Hotel a...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1905

The photographer appears to have been standing on the balcony of the Commercial Hotel (corner of Main Street West) and is looking north towards Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue). On the far left is the wooden Royal Hotel on the corner of Rangitik...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1893

This photograph shows a view of Church Street East and The Square. Tuckers sample room is on the far right, on the left side of Church Street East. The photograph must have been taken before 1902 as Millar and Giorgi was built in that year, but it...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1901

The Bank of New Zealand stood on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue, while the two-story brick Colonial Bank (not visible) stood on the site of the old City Council Chambers (now Square Edge). The wooden buildings between these two banks were erecte...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1893

This early photograph of Thames Street in Rongotea looks down the street from Douglas Square.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          circa 1900