14 February 2021

Joan’s 100th

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Mum, Joan Kathleen Marsh, was born at Phoobsering Tea Estate , just north of Darjeeling on 14 February 1921. The estate was one of the oldes...
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14 October 2020

Darjeeling’s historic graves

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Find A Grave  allows anyone to search their online database and add pictures and information.  Registered users can upload pictures of hea...
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18 August 2020

Fred Marsh’s Indian war service

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When I was a primary student in the 1960s, ‘Remembrance Day’ – or Armistice Day as mother called it – was the opportunity to wear family med...
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27 April 2020

Charles Ansell remembers his time in Darjeeling

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In February 1925, Charles Ansell wrote an account of his life which is transcribed below. Charles and my great-grandfather Claud Bald were g...
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18 February 2020

Claud Bald’s well-travelled clock

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A piece of good luck led me to an object once owned by Claud Bald (1853-1924), my great grandfather. He had carried from India to England a...
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29 January 2020

Utopia is a dangerous ideal: should we aim for ‘protopia’?

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by Michael Shermer Utopias are idealised visions of a perfect society. Utopianisms are those ideas put into practice.  This is where the...
21 January 2020

A Melbourne Masonic mystery part 3: The foundation stone

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Part 2 of the story described the Freemasons of Melbourne before they knew they had no place in the foundation stone ceremony for the Uni...