Be Our Guest entry: Letter, Norma G Bailey
Maker
Bailey, Norma
Production date
28 Nov 2005
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter to Be Our Guest competition by Norma G Bailey. She writes about her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Titled: My memories of 3 February 1931.
Norma was six or seven and playing outside at Nelson Park School. She had a twin sister, Eunice. Norma remembers struggling to get over the cracks opening up in the playground to get to the Kennedy Road entrance, with little fountains from the water pipes breaking up. She also saw the outline of the hill, from Simla Terrace and the Hospital Hill area, turn into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down as the shock wave swept across the hill. Norma's elder brother walked Norma and her sister home to Vigor Brown Street. The piles beneath their house, number 15, had collapsed.
Included with Norma's entry is a story of a trip on a yacht on the Inner Harbour in January 1930. She and her sister called it the little sea, because it was always so calm and the Westshore side, the big sea, as it was always rough. There is a photocopy of a photo of Norma, her twin sister Eunice and Ralph and Gordon Dann standing and sitting on the yacht. They are all approximately six years old.
Norma was six or seven and playing outside at Nelson Park School. She had a twin sister, Eunice. Norma remembers struggling to get over the cracks opening up in the playground to get to the Kennedy Road entrance, with little fountains from the water pipes breaking up. She also saw the outline of the hill, from Simla Terrace and the Hospital Hill area, turn into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down as the shock wave swept across the hill. Norma's elder brother walked Norma and her sister home to Vigor Brown Street. The piles beneath their house, number 15, had collapsed.
Included with Norma's entry is a story of a trip on a yacht on the Inner Harbour in January 1930. She and her sister called it the little sea, because it was always so calm and the Westshore side, the big sea, as it was always rough. There is a photocopy of a photo of Norma, her twin sister Eunice and Ralph and Gordon Dann standing and sitting on the yacht. They are all approximately six years old.
Maker
Production date
28 Nov 2005
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Handwritten on lined paper in blue ink, photocopies.
Media/Materials
Measurements
In the Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 220 x 160mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Norma G Bailey
Other number(s)
m2006/27/119, 35561
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