Persons of interest...

Australian vaudeville, Rev F. A. Marsh, Philo-Semitism in Cromwell's England, Washington Territory pioneer Alonzo M. Poe, and the Darjeeling tea industry to 1947 - 'strangers in a strange land'.

26 March 2021

Norman – ‘Rae’ of Sunshine...

In honour of: Captain Norman Gordon RAE, MC (1886-1977) and the Australian Light Horsemen who served in World War 1. From Nanneella to Nym...

14 February 2021

Joan’s 100th

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...

14 October 2020

Darjeeling’s historic graves

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

18 August 2020

Fred Marsh’s Indian war service

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...

27 April 2020

Charles Ansell remembers his time in Darjeeling

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

18 February 2020

Claud Bald’s well-travelled clock

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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