Tulip bt Che Lah (6) Send-off 1952

Before my mother left for her studies overseas, her family and relatives gathered for the send-off in KL and in Penang. There were a few photos taken of her family and relatives. One photo was taken at the Maxwell home which had a big garden. Another photo was when the family gathered at the KL railway station. In another photo the family gathered at her aunt's house in Sg Gelugor in Penang. In another photo, the family and relatives gathered on board a ship, the Carthage, which possibly docked at Swettenham Pier in Penang.  That's what I know from reading history. I think my mother and her family visited their Penang relatives before she sailed to Great Britain in 1952. My mother said, her father was newly married when she was about to sail overseas. She said she met them both as both came to see her off. Her step-mother is in one of the family photos at the KL railway station. She's from Bangsar.

At Maxwell Rd home in KL

In a train coach at KL railway station

Katherine Daisy (left) and eldest daughter, Tulip, at the KL railway station 1952

My grandmother Katherine Daisy de Coursey Bulner at KL railway station 1952

Family members and relatives gathered at KL railway station 1952.
From left: Mr FW Bulner, Daisy Yvette (youngest daughter), Katherine Daisy de Coursey Bulner (ex-wife), a schoolfriend of Tulip, Tulip (eldest), who?, Che-cheh (Chinese maid), June (third), Philip (boy), Esther (second) and possibly Dr Che Lah's second (new) wife.

Visiting Aunty Besar at home in Sg Gelugor, Penang 1952. From left: Philip (adopted), Wan Tam, Esther, Daisy Yvette, Wan Chik, and June. Dr Che Lah is standing on the verandah. Wan Tam and Wan Chik are the daughters of Aunty Besar, Dr Che Lah's eldest and only sister.

Gathered on board the P and O Carthage in Penang, before Tulip sailed to England in 1952. From left: June, daughters of Aunty Besar, Philip, Tulip, Daisy Yvette, Esther. Aunty Besar is at extreme right.

On board the Carthage 1952. From left: Aunty Besar/Mak Besar Bee (eldest sister of Dr Che Lah), her daughters, Wan Chik; June, and Wan Tam (extreme right); Esther is kneeling.

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