Billy Nestor

Nov 25, 2010.

Here's a pic of Uncle Billy at a party on my daughter, Fiona's terrace (back to camera). On his left is Clinton McFarland of an old Lucknow family. My younger daughter, Faye, is married to his son Craig.

Time has passed so fast I cannot remember whether it's three years of Billy's passing or more? We had got used to seeing him for a few days every year. The last trip he made to Gorakhpur he didn't stop over at Lucknow owing to his impaired movement and us living on the first floor.

 Billy's dad died in Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh) where he had settled after his retirement from the police. Billy had settled in UK but spent much of the last 20-odd years in India. He shared an affinity with India, the country of his birth, and loved speaking the language, depending heavily on Urdu.

(Origin: A letter to Leslie, Billy's sister's daughter in UK)

The dog pack!

Lawrence Terrace's dog pack is growing by the day. Here you see them in front of the Lucknow Club. Up in front to the left is a big garbage dump that is the collection point for refuse from the surrounding area. It provides dangerous feed for stray cattle. The cattle referred to as 'stray' are animals let loose by the owners who don't want to feed them. The municipal authorities lacks to backbone to deal the problem...

Re: Mart Lake

Thanks for the information George, The Google information I sent you was snipped from the information available on the Google Earth website. If you enter the web page and locate the Maritniere as I have done in the image I sent you, you will be able to use the add path and ruler functions to depict the areas on the image you have on the monitor. However, the pictures you have sent do give the general idea of what is occurring. The Principal and the board of the Martiniere must have a survey plan of what is being developed. I expect these works are essential to keep the Goomtie at bay!!! By the way, Ainslie is my dear wife of 51 years. Vern, my brother lives in a suburb of Perth some 80 kilometres from where I live. He is currently on holiday in the Eastern States of Australia. He is not on the Internet so I share all this information with him when we meet. The Martiniere in the background looks like it must have looked when it was first built. Good to see. Keep up the good work. Always pleased to hear news of the "Alma Mater". Regards, Roley Sharpe           -------Original Message-------   From: george shepherd Date: 15/11/2010 12:46:11 PM To: george shepherd;  arsharpe@westnet.com.au;  john cline;  keith shepherd Subject: Mart Lake   The Sharpe brothers sent me a google earth image of the Mart asking me to mark off the areas undergoing earthwork. Well the work is in the whole lake area. I took some more pictures this morning. I'm not sure whether I'll get the right order to make it easy to understand. I'm not capable of doing that on the Earth image. I could use that image on facebook if its possible to tag the different areas as required. However, from some of the foundation work taking place between the lake and Lat, it appears that the plan is either to put a pucca pathway coming from upstream along the periphery of the lake, or, a pathway with a large drain underneath, rerouting the Jiamau drain through this and joining it to the one that forms the south-east boundary of Fairydale that flows into the river. Thus, taking sewage to the river downstream. I hope the order of the pics help!

Mart Lake

The Sharpe brothers sent me a google earth image of the Mart asking me to mark off the areas undergoing earthwork. Well the work is in the whole lake area. I took some more pictures this morning. I'm not sure whether I'll get the right order to make it easy to understand. I'm not capable of doing that on the Earth image. I could use that image on facebook if its possible to tag the different areas as required.

However, from some of the foundation work taking place between the lake and Lat, it appears that the plan is either to put a pucca pathway coming from upstream along the periphery of the lake, or, a pathway with a large drain underneath, rerouting the Jiamau drain through this and joining it to the one that forms the south-east boundary of Fairydale that flows into the river. Thus, taking sewage to the river downstream. I hope the order of the pics help!

La Martiniere College band and choir cir 1962

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Lucknow Ganj is a war zone

The whole of Hazratganj, Lucknow is a mess. Over the years water-logging had increased. Even the lightest shower of rain caused a problem. Finally the Municipal authorities decided to tackle it.They started putting down pipes in front of the Girls Martiniere. That portion was covered quite speedily and more or less completed in record time. After that they have dug up the whole of the Gunj, La Place (back road to the Girls Mart) Shahnajaf Road (St Francis) and they are still digging.... The only hope is that they don't join up the ends of the different guage pipes and wonder why the water (sewage) is going no-where! So much for our clever engineers!! This has killed the festival of Diwali in the main shopping area of Luc.know

Haunting!

The 'Haunted House, ' situated on the Ganj-side of the Coffee House building is struggling to survive. To prevent both his ends from meeting, or to make 'both ends meet', this guy sits distributing pamphlets outside the coffee house to supplement his income. With that mask on he's definitely having a hard time!

Larkins compound

Behind me is where the Larkins house once stood. Today the compound stands divided with the site where the house was almost a jungle. Carlyle McFarland has a prime spot, to the left of the entrance