IN THE EARLY days of the cable service, when members of the foreign staff married, their wives often travelled out to join them at their posting. This resulted in British women finding themselves in such locations as Ascension Island or Singapore and having to adopt the new way of life as an ‘exile’.
Simply travelling out to their new home was often an ordeal in itself and bringing up children in remote areas with minimal medical services and a limited diet was commonplace.
The original caption to this photograph reads: ‘Mr Peter Critchley, his wife Grace and their sons Michael and Kim with their dogs Ben and Bonnie on board ship before sailing for Ascension Island, 1956. Mr Critchley is to manage the farm on Green Mountain for Cable & Wireless’.
