FINALLY!! Asked the Perth, Western Australia, Government Relations Director if he could help me find a copy of "We found a Valley" since we had had no success with BP London over several years. 24 hours later:
Hi John good news, we have the film and it is availab...
My current email address is above.
With the bpadenkids site being closed I have lost the ability to get in touch with people but once in a while I think back to Aden and want to contact people. It would be nice to hear from anyone from those days, so please update t...
Can anyone help me with street names for the Ghadir? I can name most of them but cannot place them. The streets can be clearly seen on this picture link http://www.bpadenkids.com/ghadir2.htm . If you know the names please let me know.
Thanks
Jonathan W
Hi All,
My first visit to this excellent website.
I went to this school from 1969 to 1971.
Anyone remember this boys school at Steamer Point. We used to live in the Khormaksar service apartments and take the city bus to school and back. I could even spot the house...
Hi every one,
As the site is somewhat quiet right now I thought it might be fun to share where and how we grew up, as for me we are looking at South Wales, Iran and Aden, how about you? Not wishing to bore anyone I will refrain from my history until there is any int...
Fred Collinson's film of Little Aden taken between 1957 & 1963 was shown on BBC2 yesterday, 19th August and is worth watching. The programme was "Home Movie Roadshow Uncut" - Episode 2. It can bee seen on BBC iPlayer. The Little Aden cut appears 23.50 minutes into...
Hi, Myself Gary Taylor and my sister Maria Taylor were in aden around 1961, i went to steamer point, Maria went to Khormaskor school, anyone around who remembers us would be great to get in touch.. should mention our father was Edward Taylor, who was sgt working in t...
Hi, my Dad was in the British army and we lived in Aden roundabout 1960 to 1964. Have very fond memories, although as a child did not realise what was going on.
I remember landing in Aden, age about 4, in my little summer dress, and being hit by a wall of heat!
Ini...
Hello! I have just discovered this website and wish I had known about it earlier. I was a teenager in Aden from early 1964 until 1966, visiting for the school holidays. I recognise many places from the photos on the site - Tarshyne, where we lived, Steamer Point, Go...
Hi! I was really excited to find this website after watching 'The Last Post' on television.
My name is Deirdre and I am the daughter of Alfred (late) and Brenda Lewis and my sister is Christine. Mum and Dad were broadcasters on the BFPO radio in Aden and they were...
I am looking for newspaper reports of the death of my best friend from school days, almost 50 years ago. David Thomas Henderson was a member of the British navy, serving in Aden in 1967 (HMS Sheba, I think). He was killed in service in May that year. David left schoo...
My mom was a gynecologist in the Aden Refinery Company hospital till 1986 just after the civil war. We used to spend our summers there. A beautiful home by the Bay ( Tiger Hill Beach), a nice garden in the front, bougainvillea trellis facing the verandah and the soun...
Just come across a letter from the secretary as I wanted to visit. Sadly could not in 1993, and on sub sequent visits the golf club was no more. The Secretary was Mr C. Amudhan, address for the club was P.O. Box 3003 Aden.
My parents are both dead now for a number of years but we all have very fond memories of our time in Little Aden. I am currently in my office and on the wall I have the plaque of St Peter's Church Little Aden.
I wonder If anyone remembers them and if friends I used...
Hi,
Things have seen to have gone quiet on this site. Is there such a thing as an "BP ADEN KIDS Facebook page. I don't have Facebook, but this is the way things seem to be going nowadays and was wondering if anyone had created one for the BP Aden Kids?
I think...
Hi All
I am Hani Bassel, I am working at Aden Refinery Company (BP Aden), I am researcher too and Manager of General Library in Little Aden.
Now I am writing documentary Book about the Visitors of Aden refinery from 1953 to 2001, by personal effort, i have more...
Dear all,
I am a researcher in London looking at the history of organised sports in Aden, and specifically boxing. I have looked through the jottings and found no mention of boxing or any combat sports at BP or other social/sporting clubs.
Does anyone remember...
Hi Aden Kid
I'm currently working in Aden and would like to see if I can help bring back some memories with photos and possibly videos of Aden today. if so drop me an email and I will see what I can do.
Chris
Hello all.
I know that this subject was on the message board previously. However, I can't find the original post so my apologies for the repetition.
I was born in Aden in 1958. My father, Joe, worked for BP and married my mother, Margaret in Little Aden in 1957...
Hi! I'm in the process of researching the Aden Protectorate for my MA dissertation, and I would be very grateful if anyone has any articles or materials about to the Abyan Cotton Scheme in the Fadhli and Lower Yafa states that they would be willing to share. I find i...
Thanks for the memories.
Just watched the video of the building of the Refinery. No matter how old I get, if I saw a picture of the rocks around Little Aden I would recognise them.
I don't ever remember them being named, so in my mind the big square one will be...
Thank you Jonathan for the admin of the BP Aden Kids site over the last number of year. I for one have enjoyed all the input.
It wouldn't be the same but it would seem a shame to lose contact.
If anyone wanted to start up a closed group on Facebook of "BPAden K...
Hi
nice to meet you all
until 1970 and maybe for more than it.. that's one worked at BP Aden Refinery.. his name Dr. Richard Bayen (i cant write bayen correctly (Ben .. Bain) i think he is dr. at refinery hospital .. just thinking
can i find any information ab...
Hi there
Just found this site after trying to google and find images of my first school which I started in Aden at the age of 4yrs. I believe it was a catholic primary school as my mother said i was taught by Italian nuns. My family lived in Aden between the abo...
Hello
Does anyone know if Jonathan is OK and, if so, is he still managing this site?
Both another site member and I have tried contacting him, but without a response from him.
There are two email addresses for him and I've tried both.
If anyone has had recent con...
I was a toddler in Aden can remember the beach with the high rocks and being warned not to climb it swimming a lot and very vaguely nursery also my older brother getting hit twice by trucks as he never did as he was told Paul went the infant school there we left in 1...
I have been trying to contact the site re Marie Stevens .I would like to get back in contact with her but when I click on the link on contacts page the email is rejected
Patricia Miller nee craigie
I was wondering if anyone had anything left from their time in Aden apart from photos.
When we came home in 1965 our complete flat in Steamer Point was packed up and returned to the UK. Sadly the fridge did not survive as the packing case in which it was loaded wa...
Hello, my parents Vincent and Kathleen Cockburn came to Aden from England in late 1965 along with five of us children ( Clare, Chris, Ruth, Helen and Juliette who was born there) Dad taught at a school there, not sure which one. We made a lot of friends there. Does a...
Is anyone aware of whether the cemetery at Silent valley is being maintained?
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission are unable to establish whether or not it has been damaged by the civil wars, and were less than helpful when I inquired.
Any information from someo...
Hi,
We kids exist,in different continents.
Our main document birth certificates don't exist.Is there a solution or a wat to get our fresh birth certificates, through a reliable channel. I need help n an answer.
Veronica
Should be if interest to anyone wishing to know more about the role played by the Hawker Hunter aircraft in policing much of the Middle East, especially Aden, in the period 1960-71.
'Based on official records held at the National Archives and other published sou...
Hi all,
I am opening up a dessert & cafe in the up and coming weeks and I shall be naming it Little Aden. The reason behind this is quite simple, the history of coffee around the world has its origins from Aden, together with the fact that Aden had a deep and pro...
Hello All
I was born in Aden 10th May 1967 at Steamer Point. My Mum and Dad were with the RAF. I'd love to go back but is this realistic? The Foreign Office would probably say no but does anyone have any recent experience of visiting Aden?
Cheers,
Paul
Hi,
My parents when in Aden bought the most marvellous carved Ivory pieces. Just wondering if anyone has any? We think they may be ivory or possibly something else.
Dilemma here. Can't sell it as anything bought in such times must have a certificate. Of course,...
I am Danny born in Aden, actually in Crater Aden (street name Bohra Bazaar)
My family had a home in Khormaksar, Aden area too.
We had a shop called VAKCO GENERAL STORE on The Crescent, Steamer Point Aden, close to the then National & Grindleys Bank now called B...
I have spent this evening finally looking at the BP Aden Kids site. My mum said i should look at ages ago. I am in a photo of class kids in school section, smock dress, straight blond hair with hair grip on left. My dad was Safety Officer(i will check this with mum t...
A friend has just sent me two separate newspaper clippings of Jimmy (aged 96) and Barbara (aged 94)..(was she known as Babs?) who lived in Aden who have just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary at a retirement home in Hamilton, Scotland. The article mentions a...
May be of interest to some.
Not a moment too soon, the UK Commons are now discussing Yemen:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm150224/halltext/150224h0001.htm
My father was stationed at the BP refinery in the late 50's. Dr William David Livingstone (Bill) Smith. His wife was Isabel Smith. Unfortunately I don't have that good a memory of the place, but we luckily have quite a bit of cine film. I remember the house - direct...