Letter, Nellie Grant-Guy
Maker
Grant-Guy, Nellie Dorothy
Production date
16 Feb 2002
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Brief Description
A three page letter (a) to the Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust, dated 16 February 2002, from Nellie Dorothy Grant-Guy nee Cook. Nellie has signed the letter, Mrs N D Grant-Guy and writes of her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
Attached to the letter is a clipping (b) from a newspaper which asks for people, or anyone they know who may still be alive and were in Hawke's Bay on 3 February, 1931, to contact the Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust. The clipping is headed: Calling all 1931 quake survivors, and asks for the details of who the survivors are, how old they were at the time of the earthquake, exactly where they were and are now, and how they might be contacted. Mrs Grant-Guy has filled in the clipping.
Nellie mentions in her letter that she was interviewed in 2001, by a lady who was to write a book on the earthquake, but she had never heard of it being produced. She goes on to say that she and her two sisters were at Parkvale School. Her father Alfred James Cook, was in business as a painter and glazier. During the earthquake, he was thrown out of a building in Karamu Road and badly hurt. Nellie's mother was a maternity nurse and performed her duties at Beatson's Park, now known as Windsor Park, in Bell Tents which were erected as a maternity annexe.
Nellie describes her life following the earthquake; of getting married, and of her husband, William Gordon Grant, leaving for war and not returning. She comments about earlier earthquake functions and school reunions. In a postscript Nellie writes that one of the maternity nurse's husband was killed in the Pakipaki freezing works.
Attached to the letter is a clipping (b) from a newspaper which asks for people, or anyone they know who may still be alive and were in Hawke's Bay on 3 February, 1931, to contact the Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust. The clipping is headed: Calling all 1931 quake survivors, and asks for the details of who the survivors are, how old they were at the time of the earthquake, exactly where they were and are now, and how they might be contacted. Mrs Grant-Guy has filled in the clipping.
Nellie mentions in her letter that she was interviewed in 2001, by a lady who was to write a book on the earthquake, but she had never heard of it being produced. She goes on to say that she and her two sisters were at Parkvale School. Her father Alfred James Cook, was in business as a painter and glazier. During the earthquake, he was thrown out of a building in Karamu Road and badly hurt. Nellie's mother was a maternity nurse and performed her duties at Beatson's Park, now known as Windsor Park, in Bell Tents which were erected as a maternity annexe.
Nellie describes her life following the earthquake; of getting married, and of her husband, William Gordon Grant, leaving for war and not returning. She comments about earlier earthquake functions and school reunions. In a postscript Nellie writes that one of the maternity nurse's husband was killed in the Pakipaki freezing works.
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Production date
16 Feb 2002
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Measurements
Letter.: Height x Width: 200 x 125mm
Newspaper clipping.: Height x Width: 75 x 113mm
Newspaper clipping.: Height x Width: 75 x 113mm
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Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Post 03 Feb 1931
Post 03 Feb 1931
Other number(s)
73504
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