created ?Parker Family & House, 71 Winchester Street, Levin
at 2007-04-23 23:27:16 UTC
?Parker Family & House, 71 Winchester Street, Levin
Caption
Written on back with black ballpoint pen: “Horowhenua Historical Society. Originally on the S.W. corner of Bath St. & Winchester St. facing bath St. F.C.S.”
Also written on the back with blue ballpoint pen: “71 Winchester St. Levin (formerly 144 Bath St.) Built by Mr Frank Parker (Mrs Parker nee M S Prouse) Donated by Mrs E. Kean.”
Embossed at bottom right of mounting board – H.T. Williams, photo.
A man woman and child, possibly the Parker family, sitting on chairs on the lawn outside the Parker family house, 71 Winchester Street. the house is a wooden villa with an iron roof and a verandah on the eastern and northern sides. The man in the photograph is dressed in dark trousers and vest with a white shirt. His white hat lies on the grass near his feet. The woman is wearing a light skirt and jacket with a white blouse and she is holding a baby dressed in a white gown.
1 B&W photo print,mounted with tear to top right hand corner.
Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”
Nick Wallingford
said Parker House
We have a family photo taken from almost this same angle that would have been taken before 1920.
That photo refers to Bath St.
Could it be that the different addresses are simply that - a change of the way the Post Office referred to the place - rather than the house actually being moved?
Frank Ernest Parker (1881-1961) married Jessie Agnes Prouse (1883-1961) in 1910. They had 5 children, and raised them all in Levin. One of them, Wint (Frank Winton) was an executor of his grandmother Christina McIlvride Prouse's estate.
Nick Wallingford
nickw@beekeeping.co.nz