Mum, third from left. Mrs Whitesmith third from right. My brother Michael second from right. John in middle at front. I turned 10 years old on 21st August. One week after Independence Day.
Boat Deck - RMS "Franconia".
July 1947.
John, Mum, Michael. leaving the house in Rishra to go to La Martiniere College, Calcutta, for the first time.
August 1947
Michael and John.
La Martiniere Prize Day.
April 1948.
La Martiniere. Calcutta.
Prize Day. April 1948
Taken, I believe at Alliance Jute Mills. It has written on the back - Christmas 1949.
In the next year (1950) I went to Victoria School for the first time.
Michael was already at sea with the BI.
Same again, different setting.
1949
A cricket match at Alliance Jute mill. The Club is behind the players. Aad the water tank that fed the "indoor swimming pool" is in the background.
No date.
My mother sitting on the verandah. Alliance Mills.
My father was a keen amateur photographer.
No date.
A "Tamasha" at Alliance.
Tennis on the left, lawn bowls in the foreground and the tables set out for refreshments.
No date.
Alexander Jute Mill's jetty in the background.
Victoria School
Anglican Chapel.
1959.
Victoria School. Junior Side and top flat.
1950
This has written on the back....
"View from the dormatories."
1950
John Feltham himself. Somewhere out in the forest.
The original size of this and the last three photos, is only 2 5/16 by 2 1/2 inches.
About what you're looking at now!
1950
In November 1952, Michael came back on leave from the BI. I flew down to Calcutta during School time as it was thought that it would be several years before I would meet my brother again.
His body language says it all.
The tie was bright red with black spots. Borrowed from someone at VS.
At the bottom of the stairs going up to our flat. Wearing my VS 'Puttoo' cap.
November 1949.
Joyce and Harry Feltham. Alliance Jute Mill Club.
27 December 1952
Mum and myself.
Same function as the one above.
December 1952.
Aged 15 years.
I don't know who the other man is.
I remember the tie. It was a nice shade of blue !
Jagaya our Bearer, myself, our cook and, I suppose, the rickshaw wallah.
A close look at my tin boxes shows that I am going back to school.
J.S. Feltham. Victoria School. Dow Hill P.O. Kurseong. West Bengal. probably March 1953, my last year at VS.
With Mum on my first ship. MV "Sirdhana". Not a very good photo.
This would have been in 1954.
Cadet Officer John Feltham.
At sea on MV "Sirdhana".
June 1954
John Feltham in the Royal Air Force.
Probably RAF Honington - 1957.
John Feltham, just before migrating to Australia with a wife and three children.
Photo dated 6 August 1968.
We left the UK on 5th January 1969.