Martiniere WWII Roll of Honour

Inside

Old Mart toilets modernised

Friday, Nov 4 : A misty morning at the Mart

Clint Ayling & Hendy

Clint Ayling and Oscar Henderson

The Martiniere Post

Sunday 23, 2011.

Pictures take this morning when I went out for a cycle ride. One
plaque marks the place from where the mine was laid that destroyed
Johannes house killing Bob the Nailer.

September 13, 2011

Founder's Day

Richard Shepherd

Martiniere of old

1870s

Martiniere vs Cambrian Hall hockey teams 1969

House boxing

William Lyons of Martin House, right.

The Lat

The water around the Lat has receded since the water has reduced in the river.

Mart Crime

The Great Tuck Robbery: Pens, books, tuck, day scholar's lunch, pocket money, keds, jangs etc were normal losses suffered in a boys' school. The Mart word for small time thieves, was 'chut' from the Hindi word chutta. I guess it didn't sound as disparaging as thief. The next heist after the gong was the one committed on the morning of the fete that year (?). Mr Tuck's desk that was bursting at its seems with tin stuff, bottled jam etc all for the fete, was cleaned out. I still remember early that morning I was woken by a voice asking me whether the brown keds in the house room were mine. When I said yes, the voice from the dark said 'if anyone asks you say they are mine'. Later there was a stampede with searches of lockers in the hope of recovering the loot. No one was caught! I was never asked about the brown keds. It was the perfect theft! I never asked the owner of the voice anything because I knew he would have said: Are you f------ mad?

Melbourne Martinians

August 6, 2011.

Neville Baker and wife, Colleen and William Lyons, Stephen Quieros and
wife, Robert Jordan and partner (back), Marvin Bunting and wife (front),
Peter Quieros and wife and Gordon Bruce and partner during a
get-together in Melbourne.
Six out of the seven 'boys' are Martinians.
Photo: Courtesy Stephen Quieros

Obituary: Lt Col T Nolan

Sat, July 23, 2011.

Lt.Col Nolan was buried at the Bandaria bagh Cemetery in Lucknow.

La Martiniere College, Lucknow

I must time it so that I get the boys in to some pics. These were taken on Monday, July 11, 2011.

Slow progress and shoddy work

Saturday, July 9, 2011.

 

Half the money used has been wasted with the poor quality work. The craftsmen and labour, perhaps, overworked have left stones broken and chipped. This will be filled in with some form of paste which will not survive the harsh weather conditions for long. The work has been going on rather haphazardly, ignoring the drainage from on top of the embankment resulting in water seepage. This will increase as the soil beneath is washed out (see pic) and the problem will increase

Calcutta Today!

Calcutta is growing outward and up!

Oh Calcutta!

 The Assembly of God church gate. A cousin, Noreen Vincent lived at 19 Royd St. (See top pic where the man is walking). Also Pam Crain lived there through an archway that led to the side of the old building. Royd St becomes Eliot Rd (middle pic) and below is a lane branching off from Ripon St. that looked as bad 40 years ago.

Over the years I'd always wanted to visit Calcutta again. Walk down
Royd St., Eliot Rd., Ripon St. And finally it's over! I had to see for
myself what others had said about it not being the same anymore.
Nothing remains the same, true, but here the place has literally gone
down, lost its vibrancy. It's become more crowded, some of the old buildings have been replace with ugly blocks, leaving little space for movement. Some of the open spaces have also been occupied resulting in narrow passageways between the buildings. Little oxygen and almost no sunlight at ground level.
I looked out for this visit and at the end I was depressed and now, should I visit Calcutta again, I don't think I'll go back to the area without a good reason.

Not bull-headed at all!

Why do we use the term bull-headed when someone 
does something brainless? That bull waited for the traffic
 flow to stem before moving forward. It was motionless
when several of us crept past it.

Mart souvenirs

I've had this bowl and coffee cup for 48 years. The same type of bowls
were in use during our time but not the cup. Maybe Bryan Cooke or the
Aussie, Mr Mac could put a date to the cup. Ma'am Towning with Col
Daniell's permission, sold these 'souvenirs' to those interested for
Re 0.25-0.50 in December '68.

The Jama Masjid, Lucknow

Bara Imambara seen in the centre of pix

The Tilewali Masjid

Roomi Darwaza

Fairydale

The Mart 'Dairy Farm' gate at Martinpurwa established circa 1888. We would visit the dhobis who occupied the rooms on either side of the gate to have our clothes ironed.

Fairydale was a beautiful field where all those exciting rugby and later soccer matches took place. Viewed from the culvert, it looks just like what the other side of the lake was, wild with babul trees.

This stone belonging to the Archaeological Survey of India, planted near the Sahara Mall, draws attention to the fact that we are approaching a protected monument, the Shahnajaf Imambara, 150m away. The message is both sides of the stone.

Special Assembly

Monday, Feb 28, 2011.
Special Assembly being held to thank the members of staff retiring at the end of this academic year.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEyCTQhvbCY