January 1910 - Tea Party with WHB seated on the right
February 1910 - Chaibassa Tussar Farm, Bhagalpur, Bihar
February 1910 - Dr Danbal, Superintendent, Chaibassa
Farm
May 1910 - Teesta Bridge, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary, Kalimpopng, West
Bengal.
(Simply a footbridge in those days)
May 1910 - A tea garden on the Kalimpong Road,
West Bengal
May 1910 - Teesta River, Chapramari
Wildlife Sanctuary, near Darjeeling
May 1910 - WHB on the Teesta River Footbridge,
Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal
May 1910 - Senchal Golf Course, Darjeeling
(It remains to this day)
May 1910 - View from the Club. (There is a club in
Darjeeling known as the Gymkhana Club which
did exist in 1910
May 1910 - Office of the Director of Agriculture,
Darjeeling
12 June 1910 - Proclamation of King George V in Darjeeling
1 July 1910 - Programme for amateur drama event
in Darjeeling Town Hall
1 July 1910 - Programme showing WHB appearing in both sketches together with Miss Isla Macpherson to whom he proposedmarriage in
1910. She turned him down and never married. Re sketches - “Most successful. Supped with the Macphersons. Bed 1.30”
Cast of Drama sketches - 2 July “Matinee of both plays. Went splendidly
- packed house. I appear to have acted fairly decently”
July 1910 - Third Provincial Cooperative Conference - President as DCCS
October 1910 - Picnicking in the Singalila Wildlife Sanctuary, Darjeeling. Woman
on the left may be Isla Macpherson.”Trek out of Darjeeling with Greens and
Macphersons. 6th Proposed to Isla Macpherson and was refused very sweetly”
October 1910 - Sunset from
Sandakphu, Singalila
25 February 1910 -
Board of Agriculture Meeting at Pusa, Bihar. WHB third from
left in the front row.
May 1910 - Saux (PMG)
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Peebles, Scottish Borders
January 1910 - Hazaribagh from the Jhalda to Chitarpur Road
January 1910 - Bengal Light Horse Camp
with Law in thje picture - Cuttack, Odisha
January 1910 - BLH Camp - E Troop Lines
January 1910 -
Dr Campbell, Missionary
February 1910 - Smith, Deputy Director of
Agriculture. In January WHB asked to deputise
for the Director for 6 months because of illness.
He was 30 that month.
February 1910 - Taylor, Chemist, Mrs Dobbs and Dobbs,
Principal of Bengal Agricultural College, Bhagalpur, Bihar
January 1910 - Daulatpur
DECEMBER 1909 - WHB on cooperative bank business.
October 1910 - Lassie
18 October 1910 - “Today Sankey gave a big picnic at Senchal. (Note
the camera in the hands of the lady in front)
18 October 1910 - Sankey’s picnic in Singalila
Wildlife Sanctuary, Darjeeling
18 October 1910 - Sankey Picnic
5 November 1910 - The gents being given a fond
farewell before settling out on their cycling
expedition from Darjeeling to Siliguri via the Teesta
Valley
5 November 1910 - Sheila and Isla Mackenzie on the
left with their mother on the far right. WHB was
turned down by Isla in 1910. Neither of the girls
married, Sheila becoming a doctor. They lived
together in Scotland
November 1910 - The meeting of the Rangeet and Teesta
Rivers taken from the viewpoint on the Peshoke Road
November 1910 - View of the river from the
Teesta River footbridge
November 1910- HT Cullis, EC Tanner and
WHB at Birik Bungalow in the Teesta Valley
November 1910 - View of the Teesta from the Birik
Bungalow
November 1910 - the cyclists
on the Birik to Sevoke Road
November 1910 - a side glen off
the Teesta
November 1910 - At Sevoke bungalow after
lunch
November 1910 - The Teesta leaving the foothills
November 1910 - Cullis and
Tanner at Lopchu
November 1910 - The approach to
the footbridge
November 1910 - View of the Teesta from the Birik to Sevoke Road
1910 - A few lines mourning the poor jute crop.
26 Sep 1910 - letter to his mother - “Our
forecast of the jute crop has created even more
violent excitement than we expected, Every day
for a week the papers have been full of it and I
have had violent telegrams from Dundee and
London. Strong (the E Bengal Director and I
have been violently attacked and
defended at many columns length. Our
critics have even broken into verse….I
agree with nearly all our critics say and
although I think our forecast is a pretty
accurate one, I am meditating a fiery
letter to Government on the subject”.
5 November 1910 - At Lopchu setting off on
the cycling expedition to the Teesta Valley
November 1910 - Darjeeling
November 1910 - The Himalayas from Darjeeling
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