Hi Shirley As someone new to India research I am always looking for advice on good sources, could you give the details of the other books on Simla please? Thanks Ros On 03/10/2010, at 18:30, Anthony & Shirley West <west@iverbucks.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > Hello Ainslie, > > I have been searching through four books on Simla, and cannot find any > reference to the West End Hotel, Simla. However, I do have one - > ""Residents of Simla 1989" .."an alphabetical list of the Principal > British Residents and their addresses" which lists many hotels but no > reference to the one you are looking for. > > The Grand Hotel features in two of them, with some early photos of it. A > paricuularly good print of it in the book "Simla, A Hill Station in > British India" by Barr & Desmond. I could copy this to you if you are > interested. > > Also, give my your grandfather's name, I will look it up in the > "Residents of Simla" booklet. > > Kind regards, > > Shirley > > > On 03/10/2010 08:03, Ainslie wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Could someone throw some light on the above hotel for me? >> >> I vaguely recall a posting some while back with photos of historical >> buildings in Simla and I think one of those was the Grand Hotel. >> If so could I please had the URL of the website? >> >> My grandfather gave his' residence at the time of marriage' (for his >> Certificate of Marriage which was held in Colaba, Bombay in 1906) as >> West End Hotel, Simla. >> >> I've just tried that title in Google without success. >> >> Cheers >> Ainslie. >> ===== India Mailing List ===== >> >> Families in British India Society: http://www.fibis.org >> >> >> Archives for this list can be found at: >> http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=INDIA >> and at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/INDIA >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > > ===== India Mailing List ===== > > Families in British India Society: http://www.fibis.org > > > Archives for this list can be found at: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=INDIA > and at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/INDIA > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >