The Grewar Brothers, one of whom was named Wilfred, were the sons of Rev. Archibald Grewar, a Methodist minister who was listed in directories as at Willunga from 1899 to 1901. They made a set of six cabinet photographs of a comic sketch arranged on the waters of the ‘Top Hole’, Coghill Creek, Saddleworth, c1905. This waterhole was located between the Saddleworth oval and Marrabel Road. Five of the six photographs carried the Grewar Bros. inscription, while the sixth said ‘Grewar and Stilling’, indicating one or both of the brothers had joined Henry Stilling (q.v.) in partnership. (Text continues below)

A cabinet portrait with the printed inscription ‘B.J. Grewar, Willunga’ may have been made by one of the brothers. There are directory entries for Rev. B.J. Grewar at Frances for 1914, and B.J. Grewar a teacher at Gulnare for 1915.

Rev. Archibald Grewar is listed as Saddleworth in directories from 1902 to 1904, and Orroroo from 1905. The brothers' photograph mounts carried the letterpress inscription ‘Grewar Bros., Saddleworth’, and among their work is a whole-plate photograph, ‘Snow scene, Saddleworth, July 28, 1901.’ According to Saddleworth identity Ray Hannaford (1894-1969), one of the Grewar brothers died in a boating mishap at Port Wakefield in the early 1900s.

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