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Dr Fayrer's House at Lucknow Residency.

This is Dr Fayrer's House house. Dr Fayrer was a British physician who came to India in 1850. It was a very extensive lower-roomed building with a flat roof, protected by sand-bags all round behind which the English kept up a fire upon the Indian fighters. The large tahkhana beneath served as a refuge for the ladies like Mrs James and others. This post was defended by Captain Weston, superintendent of the military police. This place was much exposed to the rebels fire. Mrs James Harris wrote a diary daily while she was besieged in the Lucknow Residency. When Mrs James arrived in the Residency compound there was confusion everywhere as all the unfortunate ladies and children were hunting for quarters. Dr. Fayrer was kind enough to invite them at his house and they accepted. In his house there were few other ladies, Mrs. Dashwood and her two children, Mrs. and Miss Halford, Mrs. Germon, Miss Schilling, Mrs. Thomas and child, Mrs Anderson and Mrs.Stanley Clarke. Mr. Gubbins and Mr. Ommaney, whose house was full to overflowing and all #history #lucknow #rare the other ladies about thirty in number with children innumerable were in the Residency building which also contained the sick and women and children of 32nd battalion. This lady had a narrow escape on the evening of 23 October 1857 when a bullet hit the leg of the chair she was sitting on. It just glanced upwards and she had a miraculous escape. On the morning of October 30 an 18-pounder came through their unfortunate room again which they thought was safe place and where they were so comfortable. It broke the panel of the door and knocked the whole barricade down upsetting everything. Her dressing table was sent flying through the door where a little earlier she was sitting, if the shot had come a little earlier her head would have gone with it. They all use to sleep (that is 11 ladies and seven children) on the floor of the cellar. The gentlemen sleep upstairs in a long verandah sort of room on the side of the house least exposed to fire and it was this portion. In the morning they all rolled up their bedding and pile it in heaps against the wall. They had room for only few chairs that's why most of them use to take their meals seated on the floor with their plates on their knees. Her husband James had a miraculous escape that morning as he was going into hospital a round shot passed close over his head and entered the wall just above him. On July 20, 1857, Dr. Fayrer's house received no less than eight round shot from rebels who were holed up just opposite of the road. European casualties were happening everyday in whole Residency compound through the deadly firing of rebels. The lady further writes that with the frequent night attacks of the enemy, the crying and illness of the poor children, the rats and mice which run over them , the heat, and the sleepiness of the Punkha man, unbroken sleep was a luxury they had long been strangers to. Then there is a spot in the verandah where according to Mrs James, one of the gunners was shot dead in the morning of August 4, 1857. When she came upstairs to dress she saw the poor fellow lying there in a pool of blood. Then on August 16, 1857 a shell burst in the verandah outside Mrs. Fayrer's room but she escaped unhurt. Dr. Fayrer then carried her bed in the centre of the house which was comparatively safe. Lamartnire principal Mr. Schilling also stayed here for a little change as he was seriously ill on September 8,1857. On the eightieth day of the siege on September 17, 1857 when Mrs. James and all were sitting out in the verandah that evening then an 8-inch shell fell and exploded in a lane opposite only twenty yards away. No one was hurt but they all flew into the house like frightened sheep . On September 23, 1857 when a Indian servant, a poor bheeshtie was filling water jugs at that moment a round shot 24 pounder came through the window and filled with the room with dust , he at once rushed out in a most awful fright and could scarcely believed that he wasn't killed, other than that fright that shot caused no other harm. When on 26 September 1857 on the eighty-eighth day of the siege releif arrived then this whole compound around Dr Fayrer's house and verandah was filled with the deliverers.Tea was served to the men which was prepared in the very cellar of Fayrer's house. Sir James Outram made this house his head-quarters. He and his staff occupied the long room in which the gentlemen sleep and the drawing room.