2007/013

This collection consists of films and photographs taken by Norman Blaikie and his wife Margaret. Norman Blaikie was a trained metallurgist who was employed in Burma (Myanmar) before WW2. He married Margaret circa 1930, and they had a son Hamish. Following the war, the Blaikies lived in Zawar, Rajasthan, India where Norman Blaikie would have worked for a local mining company. The 3 films in the collection reflect the Blaikies' time in India in the late 1950s and include some of their journey home by ship in 1958. Some of the 17 loose photographs cover an earlier time when they were in Burma (Myanmar), with later ones taken in India.

3 films, 1 folder

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Norman Blaikie was born on 10 April 1901 to James and Margaret Blaikie, who were from Scotland. Norman trained as a metallurgist, and worked in Burma (Myanmar) in the 1930s and 1940s, probably for Burma Corporation. He travelled through Burma (Myanmar) in 1942, during the war years. Following the war, Norman Blaikie found work in India where he moved with his wife Margaret (born 11 February 1900). They were based at Zawar in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan. Zawar is a township created by mining company Metal Corporation of India Ltd (now Hindustan Zinc Ltd.), which runs one of the oldest zinc mines in the world. Norman and Margaret Blaikie returned to the UK in 1958. Norman died in Somerset in 1987 followed by Margaret in 1992.