BCS Etchings / Jal Boga
Dear All, Ms Meher Boga was kind enough to send a memento gifted to her father, Jal Boga, to my younger brother, Ajay Bhumitra (Maxy) who has sent it on to me. Thank you, again, Meher. The memento is a reproduction of pen and ink sketches of different parts of the School, titled “A Unique […]
Gurmit S. Sehmbey’s 1950-61 BCS photo archive
Sending you some pics from 1950 something to 1961 my Dads pics [Gurmit Singh Sehmbey]… more will send later. I think one of them is a wedding at Woodville palace Sukhminder S. Sehmbey The photos are from a personal collection, sent by Sukhminder via Arun Sawhney but without details of the year in which taken […]
Down memory lane: Mr. Tuli / Mr & Mrs. Shankar / Mr & Mrs. Roshan Lal
BCS Founder’s Day Year Unknown [between 1964~1976?] Dr. Y. S. Parmar [first CM of Himachal Pradesh] meeting BCS Staff. Seen in the photo [left to right]: Dr. Parmar – Mr. Anil Chaudhary – Mrs. Chaudhary – Mr. Roshan Lal Vashisht – Mrs. Roshan Lal – Mr. Gauri Shankar [shaking hands with Dr. Parmar] – Mrs. […]
Mike King: Another precious letter
Attached is a letter from Mike King’s father, Charles King, to his youngest brother Noel who left BCS in 1934 to move to England with his parents. He was a Captain in the British Airborne Forces and saw action at the Battle of Arnhem and was actually present at the Japanese surrender in Rangoon in […]
The Mike King letters [Mike King : the Son of “A son of BCS”]
Mike King a very dear friend of mine based in the UK is a die-hard fanatic of BCS! Even though he could not go to BCS his Father and Uncles did. Mike regularly attends the OCA (UK) reunions and stays in touch with me regularly, sending snippets of excellent news and information strongly focused on […]
Treasure trove of Photographs!
We have received a treasure trove of photographs [around 680]. This precious collection has been built by Kanwarjit Singh [Partap] Grewal over the years by photos he has in his collection, by those received from various OCs and some that he came across. Partap’s message and the gallery to his DropBox folders appear via this […]
Sesquicentennial memorabilia etc
Dear OCs, OCA (India) regrets that sufficient supply of the coffee-table book was not available at Shimla during the Sesquicentennial celebrations. We have now received adequate stocks and the same are available for sale at Trekkers Point, Mezzanine floor, PVR Plaza Cinema Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi, at Rs. 2500/- per copy. You may […]