Looking down Main Street West, Church Street West is on the far left, with All Saints Church on on side and the Grand Hotel on the other corner. The Coles building is on the corner of Main Street West and the Square. Built in 1903, it was pulled d...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: July 27, 1939
A view looking eastwards over the Makerua Swamp area owned by the A & L Seifert Flax Milling Company Limited. The tramway carried the cut flax to the mill for processing.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Shannon, Manawatu
Date: circa 1907
This photograph shows Joseph Bodnar on the loop line at Ashhurst Station, 1974 – 1986, during one of his daily track inspection trips between the Longburn and Pohangina Railway Bridges. Joseph and family lived in one of the Whakarongo Railway hous...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst
Date: circa 1985 to circa 1989
Running from the top of The Square to the top right hand corner is Rangitikei Street, and Church Street East runs from the bottom right corner to The Square. Through the centre of The Square can be seen the railway line, which ran down Main Street...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1955 to circa 1964
This panorama shows all four quadrants of The Square and the central gardens running along the railway line. It looks west to the surrounding buildings - from the Fitzherbert Street corner around to Main Street West, to just beyond the Rangitikei ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
The accompanying information with this photograph says ‘taken from grandmother’s flat - at 487 Main Street [Palmerston North] – to the circus across the road”.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1948
Children stand on the railway sidings at Longburn, south of Palmerston North. The Longburn Freezing Works are in the background.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
The Chief Palmerston North Post Office was built 1905-1906 and was extended in both the 1920's and again in 1937, as seen in this photograph. It was designed by Mr J Charlesworth and built by James Trevor and Sons. The clock and chimes were instal...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1937 to 1939
This view of the Square, looking across to Fitzherbert Avenue and Church Street corner, contains some of the monuments in the Square, the railway line and the buildings on the Church Street West side of The Square. Sitting either side of the rail ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1936 to circa 1940
This image from around 1906 shows pedestrians walking on the roads through the square and railway workers working on the train tracks that once ran through the Square. The buildings, from left, are: The Occidental Hotel (built 1887) was extended w...
Creator: F T Series, no 735
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906
This post card appears to have been taken from or near the top of the Old Post Office. On Church Street West, the Evening Standard and Municipal Chambers stand beside All Saints Church (built 1878). On the Square's corner is the Grand Hotel (built...
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1909
‘Joseph Bodnar on the loop line at Ashhurst Station, 1974 – 1986, during one of his daily track inspection trips between the Longburn and Pohangina Railway Bridges. Joseph and family lived in one of the Whakarongo Railway houses between 1963 and 1...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Whakarongo
Date: 1974 to 1986
The Wakarongo Station was closed for passenger services in the 1960s, and the station sold and demolished in 1967. The goods yard was officially closed to all traffic in 1983 and the tracks uplifted some time after.
Creator: Graeme Blackley
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1985 to circa 1989