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Chapter Introduction
Writing, like any other art, is all-absorbing. It grows on you and eventually grips your ...
Chapter Contents
Introduction Chapter 1 The Voyage Chapter 2 My First Home Chapter 3 Incidents Connected with the Surgery and ...
I Made My Home in England
Published by SAVITRI CHOWDHARY and Printed in Great Britain by GRANT-BEST LTD., Durham Road, Laindon, ...
Service House, High Road, Laindon
I was thrilled to come across this photograph of Service House which was next to Toomey Motors ...
Chapter 10, Pt 4 of 5
I recognised many of the old faces though they were greatly changed, much darker and ...
Chapter 9, Pt 1 of 4
Thence came the Flying Bombs, Doodle Bugs, we called them. They flew across the sky ...
Chapter 9, Pt 2 of 4
What amazing tenacity these people had I thought. There they were standing homeless, dispossessed of ...
Chapter 9, Pt 3 of 4
“I came to my senses when I had no money left, and had to take ...
Chapter 9, Pt 4 of 4
You were quite different, I said to myself, when you landed on these shores thirteen ...
Chapter 8, Pt 1 of 6
The battle of Britain started with vengeance. Wave after wave of German bombers thundered over ...
Chapter 8, Pt 2 of 6
What had happened was that the bell which we had fixed in the shelter had ...
Chapter 8, Pt 3 of 6
“We desperately needed more volunteers and a First Aid Point, and I set to work ...
Chapter 8, Pt 4 of 6
I took her into the drawing room and sat down beside her. “Are you feeling ...
Chapter 7, Pt 1 of 4
THE TURNING POINT AND THE INDIA LEAGUE
Chapter 7, Pt 2 of 4
Strange enough, just then Nazi Germany was dominating the world scene, and Herr Hitler’s star ...
Chapter 7, Pt 3 of 4
Of course we had to have identity cards, ration books and petrol coupons for the ...
Chapter 6, Pt 2 of 5
On the third day of the accident Sheel took me in the car to Southend ...
Chapter 6, Pt 3 of 5
We tried to live up to our reputation of being good patients and avoided pressing ...
Chapter 6, Pt 4 of 5
But your natural optimism and the faith in God came to your rescue and you ...
Chapter 6, Pt 5 of 5
The nurses were reluctant to provide bedpans at odd hours. They brought them round to ...
Laindon School Football Team
Some time between1933-1939
Chapter 11, Pt 3 of 5
“Come daughter,” my mother-in-law said to me, “come and greet the visitors.” I was pleased to ...
Chapter 10, Pt 1 of 5
MY FIRST VISIT HOME
Chapter 10, Pt 2 of 5
This was a sore point with us and a few British passengers were planning to ...
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