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My name is Anona Gray (Cook). I was born in the Pointe-a-Pierre Hospital in 1941. My Mother, Greta Cook ( deceased recently 2008) and my father Bill Cook (deceased 1979) lived in Carib Valley. It was the area in P-a-P where the first houses were constructed. Most of the other areas were more or less bush! We lived in two houses. The first one was 11 Concord Road, and ultimately 17 Bon Accord Road. My father was sent out to Trinidad, from Scotland to design and build many family homes for Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd., the company before Regent and Texaco. The first school I went to was the old school in School House Lane (which many of you will remember)! It was a wooden school and was built prior to the the new school (St. Peter's School) was constructed. My father designed and constructed St. Peter's School. I remember "the model" which my father designed! My teacher in Form 1 (in the old school) was a very nice lady called Mrs. Green. She taught me to write with an ink pen as well as other lessons. Being left handed I would smudge the ink so I had to be showed a certain way to hold the pen to be able to write properly without smudging!
I lived in P-a-P until I was 11 years old and then my mother took me to boarding school (St. Brides) in Helensburgh, which is very near Glasgow, Scotland. My nickname was always "Cookie" which I still get called by all my St. Brides friends. Annette came a year later. She was nicknamed "Bun" as in Cookie-Bun! She has always been called "Bun" by her school friends also..
So for those of you who know Annette and I, we 'd love to hear from you or anyone else whom we do not know who live in Trinidad. If you have some interesting stories or photos from the "good old days" please send them to me via my e-mail anonagray@mac.com or better still click on the menu button "Stories" and you can type it there. It would also be wonderful if you could include a photo relevant to the story. We hope to bring some fun and happy memories of our days growing up in Trinidad, W.I.
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