Be Our Guest entry: Letter, Denyse Watkins
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Watkins, Denyse
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Letter to the Be Our Guest competition from Denyse Watkins about memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Denyse wrote about the Ennor family.
Her grandfather William Ennor was a bricklayer and had a firm W T Ennor, later W T Ennor and Sons. Her grandfather was working on St Paul's Church which was almost completed when it was partially destroyed by the earthquake, and completely destroyed by the fire that came later. The church later had to be blown up as it could not be taken apart by hand. Denyse remembers going by bus from Westshore with her mother, brother, and sister to see it. Asher Hall now sits on the brick foundations of the old church. William later built a stone church at Wanstead and the Tutira Church. Denyse's mother was the eldest of William and Margaret Ennor's ten children. She gave birth to a son four days after the earthquake, in Eketahuna.
Her grandfather William Ennor was a bricklayer and had a firm W T Ennor, later W T Ennor and Sons. Her grandfather was working on St Paul's Church which was almost completed when it was partially destroyed by the earthquake, and completely destroyed by the fire that came later. The church later had to be blown up as it could not be taken apart by hand. Denyse remembers going by bus from Westshore with her mother, brother, and sister to see it. Asher Hall now sits on the brick foundations of the old church. William later built a stone church at Wanstead and the Tutira Church. Denyse's mother was the eldest of William and Margaret Ennor's ten children. She gave birth to a son four days after the earthquake, in Eketahuna.
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Handwritten on A4 lined coloured paper.
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In the Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 298 x 210mm
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03 Feb 1931
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gifted by Denyse Watkins
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m2006/27/122, 35820
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