A nd lastly, before moving to The Willows, Windsor some final extracts from Dum's not very adventurous ‘Adventures.’

[further] Adventures of W.P. and Link 1924
1927
5 February	Doris married 1
May	Dudley to Canada
October	Dhunjibhoy offered a free house and £200 a year in Harrogate plus £1000 at death. Offer not accepted 2
19 November	Ian born 3
undated	During spring and summer frequently at Harrogate. (Pineheath alterations)

H e fails to mention one of the few snippets of actual news that he did mention to "dear old Auntie May" in a letter dated 10 July 1927 written from 32 Belsize Square - Tel: Primrose Hill 4377.

The prospective appointment in the East has fallen through on account of my terms being higher than the Marajah of Baroda wished to give. It was in connection with a new coast port on the Khatawar coast which he wished to make, and I was to have been the only white man in the place, which is not so very bad so long as you are being well paid for the honour of being the only flower in the jungle.

Hmmm. Moving swiftly on …

1928
undated	From end of September owing to Tocque being ill visited the Willows once a week on Saturdays till 4
Christmas	At Luxtun. Sun shining, windows open, temp 59. Dinner. Niengan, David, Vitali, Howe, Mrs Soundy, W.P. Dicko, and self. 5
1929
8 January	Mrs Soundy to hospital
10 January	Operation
30 January	Discharged from hospital
1 February	Tocque buried 6
February	Dhunjibhoy offered Willows Cottage £300 a year and £2000 at his death. Offer not accepted.
25 March	Mrs Soundy to hospital
27 March	operation
April	Appointed General Manager The Willows at £400 per year 7
11 April	Joined appointment with W.P. at Windsor
1 June	Nelson to Maidenhead College School aged 10 years 10 months
19 June	Received £200 from D. 8
7 November	Received £200 from D. due Dec 1st

A n idea of THE WILLOWS can be gained from photographs taken on the occasion some time between 1919 and 1928 when Dhunjibhoy presented a cheque for £5000 to H.R.H.Princess Alice for the War Widows Fund. Douglas Haig, who was present and named as Earl Haig was created earl in 1919 and died in 1928. Dhunjibhoy had hopes this donation might buy him a peerage; it didn't, but he was knighted in 1922. All the images are from one, possibly incomplete album. Each has an inscription in Franiy Dhunjibhoy Bomanji's handwriting. Dhunjibhoy is identifiable by his heavy, black moustache as well as being identified in the inscriptions. See mugshot at right. The 5th and 12th images have all the main dramatis personae identified. Apart from Dhunjibhoy and his wife, those present were; Earl and Countess Haig, H.R.H. Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone, General and Mrs Cartaret Carey, Lady Campbell, Lady Mary Crichton, Col. Harford and Capt. Donald Simson.

T hree further images are included in the slideshow that are not part of the above album. They show The Willows during flooding in 1933. I think these were taken by my father when he was a school boy of about 15 but they appear to have been professionally printed. Perhaps he sold them to the local paper and they gave him prints? The Willows had extensive grounds ornamented with larger-than-life, stone statues of females in varying states of deshabille, a couple of which are visible in Dick's images. Dum was at pains to employ seamen whenever possible - perhaps disabled or too old to make the grade at sea. My father recalled these old salts assiduously scrubbing the deities' protuberances fore and aft to ensure their stony purity.