Category: Rhodesia & Nyasaland

The Grand Hotel in Gatooma was opened in 1925. The hotel was known as having the first sprung floor for dancing.

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A Ambassador Hotel B Beit Bridge Hotel C Cecil Hotel Chimanimani Hotel Courteney, The D E F G Grand Hotel Grand Hotel (Byo.) Ltd., The H Hotel Cecil (Pvt.) Ltd. Hotel Victoria I J Jameson Hotel K L M N O P Q R S T Troutbeck Inn U V…

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Salisbury was located in the former country of Southern Rhodesia. The city was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military force of the British South Africa Company, and named Fort Salisbury after the UK Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. Company administrators demarcated the city and ran it until…

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The Rhodes Inyanga National Park was one of the oldest in Southern Rhodesia. It was originally established through a bequest from Cecil Rhodes from the Rhodes Nyanga Estate and in 1926 it was transformed into the Rhodes Inyanga National Park. The park contained Southern Rhodesia’s highest waterfall, Mtazari Falls which…

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A B Beitbridge Bulawayo C D E F Fort Victoria G Gatooma H I J K L Lusaka M Melsetter N O P Q R S Salisbury T U Umtali V Victoria Falls W X Y Z

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The African pygmy kingfisher is distributed widely in Africa south of the Sahara, where it is a common resident and intra-African migrant. It is absent from much of the horn of Africa, and also the drier western regions of Southern Africa. It is found in woodland, savanna and coastal forest,…

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A African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer) African Pygmy Kingfisher (Ispidina picta) B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Troutbeck Inn was located near Inyanga (Inyanga Downs). It was built in 1947 by Major Alfred Herbert MacIlwaine. It was built to represent a fine country hotel and other establishments in the Scottish homelands. References www.troutbeckinn.net

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Lusaka was founded in 1905 as a water stop on the route and was named after a Chief Lusaaka, the leader of a nearby Lenje village. In 1960, it achieved city status. Lusaka lost some of its status to Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia when the latter became the capital of…

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