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My parents, Heather and Gordon Summers, left us nine albums (in seven groups in the Gallery as they were denuded, in part, as my lovely mother discarded photographs no longer worth keeping)!
The first set were from my grandmother’s album. There is a picture of her with a camera – I think it is a Kodak No, 2 Autographic. The pictures in this group are all from Cawnpore in the early 1920s and include the sugar factory where my grandfather worked along with shots of other managers.
As you know, schooling meant boarding school in India and my father’s album includes pictures of Victoria School in Darjeeling. One picture was taken just before the school closed for the winter and the boys are holding the banner that was put on the front of the engine as it rolled into Calcutta with parents waiting on the platform.
My mother attended All Saints’ College in Naini Tal and then went on there for her teacher training. There are some delightful pictures in this group
My final mention of an album is one of my father’s – the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake and this shows the damage done to the railway system.







