Alan Wood

March 11 2007
We are pleased to be able to show Alan and Ellen's recent vacation in Kerala and to be able to publicise the services available

Ellen & Alan Wood on vacation

Ellen, on board-- These boats come in 1, 2, 3 or more AC bedrooms, with attached bathrooms, European toilets and kitchen. They take you for as many days as you want into the backwaters of Kerala. Very nice, peaceful and relaxing.

Alan & Ellen relaxing on deck of the back-water boat.

Ashley Larkins (ex Moran Tea Co.) & Alan Wood going fishing in Goa

A fine group at Ashley and Patricia Larkins home in Goa

(Back Row Left to right)

Ashley,\Larkins, Patricia Larkins, Alan Wood, David Isaacs (Ex Moran Co)

Middle Row Left to right
Theckla Rosario, (wife of late Vin of Moran Co), Ivy Demoss( w/o late Ken, Jardines & later with Mcneill),

Front Row Left to Right
Ellen Wood and Charmaine Issacs.

Alan and Ellen tell us ---The weather was lovely and warm down there. We got back on Wed, 31st Jan to a cold and wet Shillong. It has been raining every evening. Moreover, we are having load-shedding and power cuts because of the low level of water in the Barapani Lake due to poor rainfall last year.

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On 29th April, the Vicar of All Saint's Cathedral, Shillong together with about 60 members belonging to the Church of North India ( formally The Church of England ), went to Sohra (Cherrapunjee) and held a simple service at the very old British cemetery.
        This cemetery dates back to the early 1800s. There are about 30 graves of the first administrators and their family who must have come up to these hills via Sylhet. The British first set up their head-quarter at Cherra and later moved to Shillong. As years went by the cemetery was neglected with no one responsible for it's maintenance.
        The cemetery has now been officially handed over to the Church of North India (CNI), Shillong and they will take care of it in future.

Here are some photographs taken on that day which may be of interest to you. Most of the inscriptions have worn, faded or missing from the graves. The new sign board. " Lum Phareng " means European Hill. It has been set on the north side of the cemetery and can be easily seen from the main road going to the waterfalls.

A view of the cemetery. A few of the tombstones, made of hard granite, are still standing.

The new sign board. " Lum Phareng " means European Hill. It has been set on the north side of the cemetery and can be easily seen from the main road going to the waterfalls

A view of the cemetery. A few of the tombstones,
made of hard granite, are still standing.

Gravestone of Edgar Augustine Bath died age 47 in 1891

Gravestone from the 1800's

The service conducted by Rev: Presly Lyngdoh

Another view of the service conducted by the Rev Presly Lyngdoh
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Alan & Ellen Wood recently visited Kohima and snapped these wonderful sentimental photographs for the rest of us to enjoy -enroute they crossed Murphulani where Alan's father served as a Manger in the 40's.

Thank you Ellen and Alan

The Kohima War Cemetery of WW II.

1. War graves from the Battle of Kohima overlooking the town.

2 The famous tennis court in the Deputy Commissioner's bungalow compound-at one time of the battle, dubbed "The Battle of the Tennis Court" it was only the two ends of the tennis court which separated the allied and Japanese forces.

3. Epitaph.

4. A new sapling growing at the site of the orginal 'cherry tree'. A camoflaged Japanese sniper had tied himself to the tree and caused much damage among the Allied troops before being silenced.

5 Caretakers of the cemetry.

6. A famous War Memorial.