CHAPTER 2
TYYNE’S ( TIINA )
LONDON EXPERIENCE
15 AUGUST 1951 – 15 AUGUST 1953
Map # 3
England and Wales
1970 Hammond World Atlas
Tyyne found that her name was difficult for the British people to pronounce properly, so she decided to use the name TIINA , while she was living and working in London.
During her stay in London, she met a young very proper English bloke named Barry Booth. After dating for a year, she fell in love with him and they became engaged to be married. The engagement was short lived however; she noticed a change come over him after they became engaged that gave her doubts about entering into a long term relationship like marriage. After six months, she realized that he was not the man she thought he was.
Soon after she broke her engagement with Barry, she decided to return to Finland. She had been away for two years. Needless to say, Tiina’s family, especially her mother, was very happy to have her return home. Spring 1953 Tyyne applied for a position in the advertising department of Finland’s largest newspaper, the "Helsingin Sanomat." The main office was located in downtown Helsinki, and she enjoyed her new job and made many friends there.
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Tiina (top row, right) with other Nurse’s Aides and nurses from the TB ward, Collindale Hospital, October 1952
Tiina, at the end of a day’s work at Colindale Hospital, waiting for the bus. London, England, July 1952
Tiina (first row, far right) with TB ward nurses, Nurse’s Aides, and some of the many patients (military veterans), December 1952
Barry Booth, the Englishman Tiiina was once engaged to, c. December 1952
Tiina (2nd from left) and some of her Finnish co-workers. Colindale Hospital, London, July 1953.
Tiina, 2nd from right, with some of her closest friends (including one of the hospital’s chefs), on her last day at Colindale hospital, July 1953
Tiina, 2nd from right and three other Finnish girls, leaving London, England, homeward bound for Finland on a small Russian steam ship, August 16, 1953.
Tiina, far right and her traveling companions, ashore at one of the ports the ship stoppe dat, on their journey home, August 17, 1953.
Tiina, on the Russian ship on her way home from London, England, August 1953
Tiina (on right) on her way back to Finland, August 1953.
Back home in Malmi, Finland, Summer 1954. Tyyne (holding Edvin’s son) and sister Vieno, having a good time at the Kasslin family home.
Tyyne, enjoying an outing with two of her eldest brother’s sons. Malmi, Finland, Summer 1954.
Tyyne, and brother Pauli, become God Parents. (L-R) Pauli; Tiina (holding newborn nephew Jari, son of Onni & Kyllikki); family friend; and (Lutheran) Priest, November 1954.
Tyyne, and older sister Vieno, God Mother to eldest brother Edvin’s Son. Holding new God Son, November 1954
A Kasslin family celebration, when Tyyne’s older brother Onni and wife Kyllikki had their son Jari baptized, November 1954.
Seated, from left to right: Kyllikki, Onni, Tyyne (holding her God Child Jari), Tyyne’s father Juho, Tyyne’s mother Ida Maria, and Kyllikki’s mother.
Standing, left to right: Aili, Tyyne’s eldest brothers wife; Tyyne’s younger brother Pauli’s wife Aira; Pauli; Veikko, Tyyne’s next eldest brother; his wife Marjatta; the Priest; and Irja, Kyllikki’s best friend.
Tiina’s Passport photo, 1954. Her given Christian name is Tyyne, it means Calm, Serene, Peaceful. A perfect match to her very gentle, kind, caring personality.
Tyyne, patiently waiting for a bus while on holiday in Sweden, Summer 1954.
Tyyne, on holiday in Sweden, Summer 1954
Tyyne (on the right) and friend on a ship returning home from Sweden, Summer 1954
Tyyne (left) and friend, homeward bound from Sweden, Summer 1954.
Onni Kasslin, (Tyyne’s older brother) riding for Finland on the track (Velodrome) in Denmark, 1951. Onni was one of Finland’s fastest Sprinters in Track Cycling. He also rode on the Finnish Olympic team in the 1954 Olympic Games, held in Helsinki.
The old Kasslin family home in Malmi, Finland, on the eastern outskirts of Helsinki, where Tyyne was born, September 5,1931. This photo was taken July 21, 2003, while I was visiting Finland.
The area is now a City Park, and I was sad to learn that the city has now torn the old Kasslin home down. I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity to visit Tyyne’s birth place, as well as photograph it. Photo taken July 21, 2003.
A view from the front steps of the old Kasslin family home, where Tyyne and her family gathered countless times. From left to right, Veikko (our gracious host on that visit), Tyyne’s 2nd eldest brother, Daughter–in–law (at that time) Claudia; and my eldest son, Onnie, named after his Finnish uncle Onni.
It was an overwhelming experience, being here on the front steps of Tyyne’s birth place, the same places where she had sat and played countless times in her life.
Go back to to Chapter 1: TYYNE MIRJAMI KASSLIN, "TIINA" IN "THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN"
Continue to Chapter 3: CELDRIA GRANADOS AND FRANCISCO DIAZ GRANADOS