Archive (2 life histories found)
'We mostly used the HF radio in the aircraft to call Berna Radio in Switzerland and they could patch a phone call to anywhere in the world'
For the two weeks we were flying in Nigeria contact to home was difficult as the phones never worked in the hotel . You could go to the post office and book an overseas call but had to wait hours for a connection also pay in advance for the…
Tags: navigation radios, Nigeria, phones
'I felt very homesick, I was pining to go back to India and wrote letters to my parents'
My husband was very busy working as a Senior House Officer and Registrar day and night and sometimes night duties including the weekend calls. Everythign was so different in sixties and seventies than now. The standard of living and the salaries…
Tags: 1960s, Emigration, homesickness, phones