Lal Baradari Bhawan under repair

The red building, known as the Lal Baradari

 Bhawan, has historical value and presently

 houses the Lalit Kala Akademi.

Before the museum shifted to its present
location within the zoo it was housed
here. 

Under repair as of September 2015

The High Court wall on the left. The Lucknow
Residency is up ahead

Leonard Fernandez Nov 6, 1924--Sept 12, 2009

Lenny the Aviator 

Leonard Timothy Fernandez
Nov 6, 1924  -- Sept 12, 2009

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"COME ON LEN... SHOOT!" HE
heard his left-out junior team-mate
urge him on, but Lenny disregarded
this desperate cry in the last minute
of this crucial game for Loyola College
against Madras Christian College. His
eyes were on the ball but he was
cautious of the beefy back smack
ahead, so he pushed the ball to his
inner-right wingman. The shot
connected and was deflected into the
goal past the MCC defence and Loyola
were victors that year because Leonard
Timothy Fernandez heeded better
sense and his Captain's judgement.
That January, Leonard (or Lenny,
as he was known affectionately) was
just months away from his graduation
in 1947. Hockey was his passion,
among the many games. he played.
But he played to win and he played
fair. Above all he was Captain of the
team from his school days to Loyola
and beyond when he took his
university colours for the game.
He graduated, entered the Indian
Military Academy, Dehra Dun, and
was commissioned in December 1948
into the Royal Indian Artillery at
Devlali. On completing the young
officer course there he found himself
posted into an Air Defence Regiment
stationed on the border of the everturbulent
Jammu and Kashmir. Soon
he found himself moving into another
passion-flying. He earned his    (Brian sorry got to find the rest of the article)

Memories by Brian Fernandez

The Prime Minister, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru signing
Army pilot, Capt Leonard T Fernandez's
autograph book while the Captain's two small
sons  watch in awe

       Memories!

 By  Brian Fernandez 

This image has my three year old brother Bruce on my left, and I, four years old, gazing with awe and wonder at the unmistakable icon, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru signing my father’s autograph book. And it has several fond and sad memories attached with it. Nehru had arrived at Adampur, on a whistle-stop election tour, in an Illyushin aircraft of the IAF (Indian Air Force). I can still vividly remember the twin-engine, grey aircraft with its distinctive, clipped wings. I believe these aircrafts were in service for many years after that, into the 70s. The IAF also had a squadron ofVampire aircrafts ( plywood, twin-rudder, jet- fighter aircrafts ). Our family – my Dad, Mum, and younger brothers Bruce & Barry used to live by the airstrip, in a huge canvas tent which was the standard Officers’ accommodation in those days, before we moved to Adampur village.My father Captain L. T. Fernandez, an Army pilot, was posted to an Air Observation Post (AOP) Flight, based in Adampur and flying the propeller driven Harvard. He retired in 1981 as a Colonel in the Regiment of Artillery and passed away a year after my mother, in 2009. Somewhere along the way we misplaced my late father’s autograph book on which Pandit Ji’s signature was taken. But what I do remember is that Jawaharlal Nehru signed his name in Devanagari (hindi) script. This photograph is special to me, because it also reminds me of Bruce, my younger brother who suddenly died at a very young age of five, on September 7, 1957, of an incurable tumour in the Jullundur Military Hospital. He would have been 59 this year. I am now a 61 year old retired school teacher.

Courtesy:http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/121/

James family, Lucknow circa 1950

Stamding Left: Elsie James, 2. ? 3&4. Ivy and Ken Hourigan  5. Dorothy
 James holding Allan (baptised), 6. Glenna James, infant's mother
 (nee Nestor) and 7. Noreen James Kneeling Left Dennis James with Leslie, 
infant's elder sister and Maurice James, Glenna's husband. Elsie's 
husband and  the infant's,  Thomas grandfather is not present

Pic taken outside Christ Church in Lucknow
 From L Elsie James nee Shepherd 3rd L Ivy Hourigan nee Shepherd
Dorothy James, Glenna James nee Nestor and Noreen Vincent nee James
Sitting centre is Maurice James

1930's pics from McCluskieganj

Ken Hourigan on a visit to the Ganj in the 1930's or '40's.

Mr Dobson (hope I can get his first name)

Mrs Catherine Dobson formerly Mrs Hourigan

The McCluskieganj band 1937

The Mart's transformation--2014

A dairy farm built towards the end of the 1800's at La Martiniere College, Lucknow had

become living quarters for washermen and others many decades ago. The plan now is to turn it into a fully automated laundry for the students of the college. The swimming pool, also constructed at the end of the 1800's is also being modernized.

La Martiniere College today

July 3, 2014 Renovation work is continuing in several places of the institution