Category: Cambourne Memories
Category: Cambourne Memories
From Jersey, Channel Islands, to the African Continent
My father Richard Durell married Edmée Gruchy in Jersey on 21 December in 1934. After marriage, Richard accepted a ...
The Journey
The beginning was difficult-I was in a traffic jam going to the airport! Would I get to the check-in in ...
The Macready Mystery
Throughout my mother’s life, she believed implicitly that she was a descendant of William Charles Macready (1793-1873), the great Shakespearian ...
Crocodiles and Education
When I look back on my life I begin to wonder if I have achieved anything of consequence. To my ...
I.R.A. Activity in London – THE HARROD’S BOMBING
It was unfortunate that the day our son Robert went to Harrods to buy a Christmas present for his father, ...
To be a butterfly
It is a sunny October afternoon in Cambourne and I am looking through the window at my garden where a ...
In Search of Spirituality
In October 1976 I and my ex-wife Chrissy went out to India to live the spiritual life. We had gone ...
Evacuation from Ferozepur
It was August 1965. My family lived in the army cantonment of Ferozepur, Punjab, in northern India. I was 10 ...
Wartime Summer
The farmer peered out of his kitchen window at the hanging heads of corn, ripe and ready for the swift ...
