House, Enfield Road, Napier
Maker
Sinclair, Ernest
Production date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
The photograph shows the damage caused by the 3 February 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake to a house at the end of Enfield Road, Napier. The land has slipped causing the house on the top to perch precariously over the cliff. Underneath the photograph Ernest Sinclair has written: This house had 40 feet of lawn in front prior to the earthquake.
Photographer, Ernest Sinclair.
Date, post 3 February 1931. Possibly March/April.
Photographer, Ernest Sinclair.
Date, post 3 February 1931. Possibly March/April.
Maker
Production date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black & white photograph held in place in an album with photo corners.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 114 x 70mm
Classification terms
Subject period
Subject date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 19725
Credit Line
gifted by Brian Sherborne
Other number(s)
2015/31/76, 19725, 92444
Accession number
2015/31/76
Public comments
This was a house owned by a Mr and Mrs Scott. I lived with my parents (I was 3 1/2 at the time) next door in a house also owned by the Scotts. We had to move out after the 'quake to allow the Scotts to move into our house. My father was having a shave prior to going to a meeting. Mum rushed in to the bathroom and grabbed dads hand, but unfortunately he closed his razor (a "cut throat") the wrong way and badly cut mums hand. It was bound up in a handkerchief while going up the road by a Greengrocer delivering vegetables called Mr Larrington.
- Neville Chittenden posted 4 years ago.