Interview number: 090
Interviewer: Thatcher, Mary
Interview date: 1981-09-10
Length 90 minutes
Condition notes: Clean
Mrs. Veronica Bamfield, whose father and husband were both in the British Army in India, talks to Mary Thatcher about her childhood, social and domestic life, and Uday Shankar’s dance school in Almora.
Coverage notes: Simla, Lucknow, Ranikhet, Almora, Bageshwar, Kumaon; childhood, affinity; smells; Independence; separate lives, cantonments; Hanuman; fair, mela; graves; Khaksars; servants; health; nannies; locusts; 1911-1943