by Christine Nicholls | Nov 22, 2016 | Christine Nicholls, Uncategorized
Mombasa Hospital’s Early Days When the Imperial British East Africa Company began to trade in East Africa in the early 1890s, there was a need for a hospital for Europeans, prone to fall sick so easily in a country with an unfamiliar climate, where malaria was...
by Christine Nicholls | Oct 24, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
The Wrens in Mombasa in World War II The Mombasa of today is so different from the Mombasa of the Second World War that it is worth having a look at what the town was like previously. One of the best people to describe it is an officer in the Wrens who was posted to...
by Christine Nicholls | Sep 19, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
Who was Freddy Ward? The name Freddie or Freddy Ward crops up so repeatedly in the early land dealings of East African settlers that it is worth finding out about the man behind the name. Like many of the early white settlers, Hamilton Frederick Ward fought in the...
by Christine Nicholls | Aug 13, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
The Sandbach Bakers and Kenya’s first Dairy One of the first white settlers to be given land in Nairobi was Frederick Baker. He was granted 1,600 acres in Muthaiga by John Ainsworth, the Sub-Commissioner, on condition that he supplied Nairobi with dairy products. Who...
by Christine Nicholls | Jul 22, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
Mombasa’s Law Courts On 30 August 1984 the new Law Courts were opened in Mombasa, but where had justice been dispensed beforehand? A British court, presided over by an English barrister, had been established in a godown near the old harbour in Mombasa in 1890,...
by Christine Nicholls | Jun 20, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
What caused young men to join the exodus from Britain to East Africa in 1910-1912? Let us take one example and look at his memoir. Brian Havelock Potts, born in Brixton on 30 March 1891 as a fourth child and only son, came from a middle-class family. His father...
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