Africa Hand Sends in Photos

    Roy Davies from Cheshire sent us some photos last year which we haven’t been able to fit onto the pages of Old Africa, so I’ll share them on this blog.

    In his African wanderings Roy Davies spent time in Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland (1949-50), Khartoum, Sudan (1951-53), Egypt and Jordan (1953-54), Kenya Police, 1956-59, Instructor, Kenya Regiment,  Lanet, Nakuru,  Kenya (1964-65). Later he drove through South Africa to an assignment in Manzini, Swaziland (supposedly Radar Technician), Basutoland (arms search) with a side trip to Mozambique (holiday) thrown in. He has also been in Gambia and Nigeria.

"Army Quarters, Nakuru. The old farmhouse  was behind

the trees on the left as you travelled West from the

Nakuru-Gilgil road at Lanet. It had 14 doors and a 'tin' roof.

We were resident in it for three months after my wife

and daughter joined me." - Roy Davies.

 

"Sigara, who worked for us in Lanet, with the kitchen

in the background and the hot water boiler to the right." - Roy Davies.

 

 

Lions on an airstrip in Tanzania taken sometime in the late 1990s

by a Quantity Surveyor working on a UN road job.

 

Kilifi ferry taken by Roy Davies.

 

Dawn at Mombasa, taken by Roy Davies.

 

Flying over Kilimanjaro, taken by  Roy Davies.