facebook   twitter   mail  

The Gisborne Photo News

 
    Print this article

No 223 : January 31, 1973

4

Vanessa in Person

Miss Vanessa Lowndes paid a visit to Gisborne recently, to see at first hand the work being done in the Vanessa Lowndes Abilities Workshop. The workshop, named after her, was established through funds donated by her father, Mr Colin Lowndes, a partner in the world famous Lowndes Insurance Company, based in London. The workshop is to help rehabilitate handicapped people.

×
     

Miss Lowndes takes a look at a trampoline being constructed by Jim Taewa and Mana Pohoiwi.

×
     

Board member Murray Upton and Vanessa watch Ewen Jobson at the silk screening table

×
     

Some samples of the many silk screening jobs turned out at the workshop

×
     

Workshop manager Hugh Hamilton with Vanessa, and Henry Borst. The table has been stripped down and is ready for repolishing

×
     

Denny Daly does much of the cane chair work. At right, with Vanessa, is the chairman of the workshopdirectors, Ray Porter

    Issue contents

© 2012 H B Williams Memorial Library
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand logo

All images and text on this website are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 New Zealand (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/).