Martiniere January 2013

 Visited the Mart with Kenny and being  Jan it was still misty late morning. Top pic shows Sykes Hall and the kitchen area being spruced up.

Kenny at the Band Pavilion (Built 1890) It's just a guess that the Mart may have used this area for its sports as the Polo Grounds, as it was still known in our time, was used by the army till they developed their own ground in the Cantonment that today houses the Surya Auditorium. The info about the polo grounds I got from old Martinian Satish Bhatnagar's book 'Bright Renown'. Satish, I understand is working on an updated version.

The Mart owns its own tractor, financed by a group of old boys. Testing it is the Principal's grand nephew.

Ken Taylor

Kenneth Jude Taylor who migrated to the UK in 1974 works for Underground rail. He'd visited Lucknow in Jan 2013. He had visited Lucknow twice in the past 18 years but thought I wasn't in Lko anymore. In 2012 he found my email address and since then we've been in touch.

Pic from the past!

A picture I don't remember seeing before. Only Kenny is in the UK while the other three live in Melbourne.
Four Martinians: William Lyons and Kenneth Taylor (standing) and Peter Quieros and David Young sitting

A picture from the 1960s sent to me by Kenny Taylor (standing second from left).
The Dignum-Gardner-Sinha-PennB house in the background.