> > This site was sent to me because in times past, I had asked after the Kerr sisters - Daphne and Dawn - daughters of a tea planter in the tea district of the > Dooars and North Eastern Himalayas that included our own neck of the woods. The sisters had been in Dow Hill with me. > > I have chosen a section from this Koi Hai site, titled ‘memories’. The Scottish accents are familiar for they were still there playing cricket in > Darjeeling while I joined their wives to watch (in the 1950s.) > > It is rather a long muse between old friends but, a most interesting one. Dr. Graham’s homes is mentioned because of a social phenomenon which came about as a result of young bachelor planters not permitted to marry for twenty-three years. Some tried to keep their children but in the 1900s, it was not unusual for planters to gift the homes with a lump some on the condition that their children would be looked after. nb. Those orphans received a good education particularly in mechanical fields and were ’snapped’ up when the time came for their young men to venture into the working world. > > Try to stay with it - it is part of India’s history to which our generation were privy. > > P.S I was surprised to see that Peter Sarstedt’s music figures ! > > HOPE you enjoy - as I do for I love to listen to ‘old men’s’ stories ! > > Wishes ~ > Sally > > http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?site=Koi+Hai