Over the last three years I'd been frequently passing an old gentleman out on his morning walk. Several times I was tempted to say something to him, even if it was just wishing him the time of the day. However, I didn't till just a few days ago. He greeted me warmly speaking in the usual half-Hindi-half-English as is common in UP. When I learnt that Mr RK Yadav retired from the P&T department my mind went to my uncle and others of his time who served together, but I said nothing. Finally he got around to asking where I lived, and hearing me say Lawrence Terrace, he mentioned a name that took me back fifty years.
As it turned out he had visited a neighbour, Mr Edwards, who lived in the flat below us. The Edwards left for the UK in 1959-60.
But he had first visited 'Old' Lawrence Terrace some time earlier. The Edwards family consisted husband (I can't remember his name), wife, Annette and daughter, about my age, Alison ... The oldman named my uncle Kenneth Hourigan and Mr Melville Wilson. Uncle Ken died in the 1980s whereas Mr Wilson died at 92yrs in 2000. We had been in this Newabi building, that was said to have been an elephant stable and later barracks for British soldiers, since my grandfather shifted to Lucknow at the turn of the last century. He died at no. 13 'old' LT in 1928.
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Edwards
Keith and Annette Edwards ended-up in Melbourne. Both husband and wife passed away in Brisbane in 1999. Their daughter Alison lives in Melbourne - by last count she had seen through 3 husbands and has 7 kids. I know all this as Annette Edwards when she was about, was my mother's cousin.
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John
Great stuff George. Have just visited the first couple of posts but I will go thru the remainder at leisure so as to enjoy it to the fullest....
Ray Barnes
Hey George, you should be taping some of these memories. There must be somewhere in Lucknow, photographs of Old LT. Perhaps the old bloke, you referred to, could lead you there.
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