After three excellent days of seeing Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, the Eiffel Tower and the other sights of Paris, Doris 
and I, Roger and Shirley and my mother’s little car headed out of Paris going south towards Marseille in July 1950. We went through countryside very similar to England and at lunch time, we stopped and bought bread, ham, cheese, fruit and wine for lunch. Continue reading
Memories
Memory Ten
Driving down the coast of Italy after a picnic lunch with wine, I, as the only driver, found it hard to stay awake with three sleeping passengers. Somehow, I did and we arrived in Rome on August 5th and found our rooms at the University. Continue reading
Memory Eleven
It was September, 1950 and I was driving back to London in my own car, to start my post-graduate research in the cryogenic laboratory of Imperial College. I had just lost my mother, aged 54 and my father, aged 50, and I started wondering how long I had. Continue reading
Memory Twelve
There were not many changes to our life for the rest of 1951, but in 1952, Roger Sargent stopped working on his Ph.D. and went to work in Paris for L’Air Liquide, the giant industrial gas producer in Europe. At about the same time, an Australian student, Len Clare started working in my lab with the gas analysis equipment. Continue reading
Memory Thirteen
In January, 1953, my G.I. Bill British equivalent money ended but Professor Newitt, the Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College, appointed me as Assistant Lecturer for a term of one year. At the same time, my supervisor, Professor Geoffrey Haselden decided that I had an adequate research plan to qualify for a Ph.D. My life was suddenly changing and I went to work with renewed spirit. As I have reported, Doris and I got married in July, 1951, and we were enjoying married life. Continue reading
Memory Fourteen
It was 1954 already and I was in the final stages of my post-grad work and had started copying notes, drawings, graphs and tables. My pregnant wife, Doris was busy in her spare time and at weekends typing my thesis on her little non-electric typewriter. She was still going to work at the BBC and was beginning to show signs of pregnancy, but felt well and happy. Continue reading
Memory Fifteen
Doris and I, together with baby Nigel and fellow research student, Douglas Eyre got on a TWA Constellation plane at Heath Row about 4 pm on August 7th, 1954 and we were all emigrating together to Montreal, Canada. We landed at Glasgow for an evening meal and then departed en route to Keflavik in Iceland where we landed in daylight at about 3 am. Continue reading
Memory Sixteen
Doug Eyre and I worked at drawing boards in the process department of L’Air Liquide in Montreal for most of 1954 and into 1955. Doug mainly worked on process design and I was mainly involved in heat exchanger and distillation column design. Continue reading
Memory Seventeen
The New Haven Railroad went bankrupt in 1935, recovered and did it again in 1961. My family and I moved to Rowayton, CT in January 1958 so I got the full benefit of the declining condition of their railcars as I commuted to and from the Chrysler Building in New York. Continue reading
Memory Eighteen
When we moved to Rowayton, CT, Nigel was four and Nick was two and both had their baby pictures on their green cards showing they were a “landed immigrant of the United States”. They, like the rest of our family, kept those original photos until we became citizens years later.
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