Saturday, April 24, 2010

From an OMA newsletter


Seeing Rodney Kane in the centre-left pic, kneeling right, for the first time in all these year, I couldn't help wondering what happened to him. And, from what I remember, the guy standing in the centre was college captain either before or after Bhag Singh and it's obvious I cannot remember his name. Who can help? So many guys have disappeared. Another one I've wondered about is John Hunt. I still have my autograph book from 1962 in which he'd written 'Failure is the stepping stone to success'.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Alison Ruby Painter nee Edwardes 1950-2015

Grace Hipkin (aunt) , Keith Edwardes and Alison
with daughter Natasha her husband (and a small boy?)
Pic: John Cline
Wedding tea for Annette and Keith Edwardes
1948: Rev LaShanna, Aunt Ruby Murphy, Cynthia Cline
with little John
Pic John Cline
Keith and Annette Edwardes with their only
daughter, Alison in (1969?) in Australia (Pic John Cline
Courtesy: John Cline (not so distantly related to Alison's mother, Annette
Edwardes nee Murphy)
(Lawrence Terrace, Lucknow 1950s) 
From left my brother Keith Shepherd, cousin Hubert
Shepherd with Blackie, cousin Maurice James' son
Allan (back), the naughty chap sitting is me, Georgie,
Alison (Pappy) Edwardes right, the big girl is Sally
Rutland and Natice James, Allan's sister.
I came to know the other day that Alison passed on
either late October or early November 2015 in Australia.


What's happening

The embankment is being strengthened in line with the Chief Minister's   plans for a beautful waterfront that begins a mile upstream. How this will impact the Mart is left to be seen.

Friday, April 16, 2010

A little boy's letter



Allan James'letter dtd 19-6-1962. Allan was about 9 or 10 yrs old when his dad, my first cousin, moved with his wife and five kids to the UK. His father, Maurice worked as a labour officer in a sugar factory in Gauri Bazar, near Gorakhpur.

Monday, March 1, 2010