Bookends for Marion Brookes. Carved 1950.
Bookends for Marion Brookes. Carved 1950. DB191 Margaret Brooks of Victoria now has the bookends that were carved by Nellie for her mother, Marion. Marion Brooks is the youngest daughter of Gordon Lindsay Clark and Barbara Jane Walch. (Nellie also carved a chair for Lindsay Clark – DB192) The extended Walch family included Marian’s Aunt […]
Bookends carved 1949 for Gussie Wright’s 100th birthday.
Bookends carved 1949 for Gussie Wright’s 100th birthday. DB139 AUGUSTA SOPHIA (GUSSIE) GREENHILL (1849 -1953) Gussie Wright, daughter of Christopher Henry and Laura Paulina Wright lived at “Brookville”, Westbury with her family until she married George Greenhill and moved to “Egmont”. As was the fashion of the times ladies visited each other for afternoon tea […]