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Elsthorpe Reserve. It was the place where I had a good cry about my Mother's death. The occasion was the Elsthorpe School Centenary nearby.
(Read the Centenary welcome, circa 1978)
I went and sat in the Little St Stevens church on a pew and immediately I heard mum pumping the pedals. Basil Jensen came in quietly and offered me a handkerchief. Jill Jensen took over mum's organ role. She played at mum's funeral.
That was community 1998.
Dad, (Seth Tiffen) and me. Aunty Pris in the background. Nana's Summer cottage. Kairakau Beach. 1948
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Excerpt. Oil Painting. Napier. Children with their Mother Lucy Tiffen. They are visiting their aunt Louisa Tiffen. Tennyson Street. Napier.
Oil by Artist. J. Annabell. Tiffen House and Original St Paul's Church. Joseph Annabell (b.1815, d.1893), gifted by Miss E M Boyle, 59/78. MTG Napier.
c 1875
Elmshill family c 1920s
Seth holds Priscilla.
Eleanor on pony.
Family friend Wallace Atherfold.
c 1958
c 1956
A continually thriving local primary school. ELSTHORPE PRIMARY SCHOOL Class years 1 - 8. School Age 121 years.
Top left. Bell assembled by dad, (Seth Tiffen). c 1973Elsthorpe Reserve tree. Hawkes Bay.
Right above.
Me on the patio of the house dad built. 1938, the patio an extension in 1951. He went on to build lounge and sewing room extension by 1963.
C 1976
Dad and I on Kairakau Beach. 1985.
Janet Cartwright. (Classmate. Ace tennis player) Stephanie Beth. Iona College. 1962.
>> Fragment. Lucy Eleanor Tiffen by Tennyson Cole 1893