Words From Vaish

ROUND-THE-WORLD ROBYN “What goes out, comes around in the end.  It happened to my Mum and me, it really did. My Mum was born in New Zealand in 1899. She was the only daughter of a Welsh ship’s engineer and an Anglo-Irish seamstress, one Kathleen Ann Bailey. Sadly, Granddad Lloyd was drowned in a ferry disaster in 1909. He’d provided as well as he could for his family with his savings and an insurance policy, but it simply wasn’t enough. So, that year, Grandma Lloyd moved herself and Mum to India . She had relatives there in the British Raj, who promised to help her s et up a small tailoring business in Bengal Presidency, as it was called then. You could live quite well on a little there, in those days. Grandma and Mum set up shop in a small town upriver from Calcutta on the Hoogly. It was hard going initially because the native tailors were pretty good, and much cheaper too. But Grandma could do the European fashions for ladies and kids that they couldn’t. Both sh...

The Forgotten Children Fairbridge Farm School And It’s Betrayal Of Britain’s Child Migrants David Hill Allen & Unwin 2017                                                                                  338 Pages “You can never really entrust your children to anyone else” - Anon Author David Hill’s single mother did, but realizing her error, was luckily on hand to rescue him and two siblings from a very Dickensian institution in - of all places - 20 th century Australia.  Mr Bumble the Beadle, Wackford Squeers and other such fictional 19 th century ...