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Diana Polisensky

Diana Polisensky

Diana Polisensky was born and bred in Southern Rhodesia and pursued a career first in medical technology and later in basic research in genetic engineering before retiring to the Florida coast.
Highland Beach, Florida
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Dorothy Crowther-Smith (far L) and Gervas Hughes (far R) baling hay at her farm during his recovery from polio at Bordon in H
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Milking a Recovery

Dorothy Crowther-Smith (far L) and Gervas Hughes (far R) baling hay at her farm in Bordon, Hampshire during his recovery from polio.  (N.B. Gervas’ withered R arm and shoulder) Milking a Recovery After a month at the  two-bed G&P Mine dispensery in Que Que under
07 Sep 1999 2 min read
The-Lure-of-Africa
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The Lure of Africa

A bogged wagon on Que Que’s early roads. The Lure of Africa Before the Great War, as a schoolboy in Llanbedr, near Crickhowell in a remote Welsh valley, Gervas Hughes collected  double headed stamps from the Globe and Phoenix MIne sent by his half-brother Tom (Reginald).  At university
31 Aug 1999 2 min read
In 1936 G.W. Hughes Milk Giraffe Farm, Que Que home delivered milk by bicycle
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Hughes Milk

In 1936 G.W. Hughes of  Greenham Farm, 13 miles west of  Que Que, home delivered milk by bicycle Hughes Milk Gervas Wylde Hughes, came from a remote Welsh Valley and arrived in Que Que to stay with his broher on the Globe and Phoenix Mine in 1921 at the
17 Aug 1999 2 min read
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