STILES, Raewyn Dorothy interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

Record Group — Box: 34

Identifier: H0273

Staff Only

Overview

This interview is part of the Grand Hotel Project. In this interview Raewyn talks in detail about her Grandfather, Willaim Holding, who came to New Zealand from England in 1923. William was a joiner and a sign writer as well as a talented painter and amateur photographer. He served in WWI and WW2. He did strongman acts and was a wrester. In 1954 he did a painting for the Queen's visit to Invercargill and Raewyn recounts the story of how he held up the painting from the veranda of a shop across from the Grand Hotel so that the Queen could see it when she came out on the hotel balcony.

Dates

2016

Creator

Amundsen, Rebecca (Interviewer, Person)

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