Category: Rhodesia & Nyasaland

  E A Dove & Co (Pvt) Ltd was located at 16 South Avenue, Salisbury. They were manufacturer’s representatives.

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Goldberg, Gargan & Gargan was a legal firm located at 20 Cecil Chambers, Main Street, Umtali. The firm was founded in 1929 by senior partner, Benjamin Disraeli Goldberg. The two other partners were William Michael Gargan and Thomas Martin Gargan. References Who’s who in World Jewry Volume 1 (1955)

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1954 1954 Definitive Series 1955 1959 1959 Definitive Series 1960 1961 1962 1963  

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Southern Minerals (Pvt) Ltd was a mining consultancy business located in Salisbury. It appears the business may have been established by Lloyd E Daume, who in 1947, had set up a consultancy business associated with the Patino Group as a chief engineer. The postal address of the business is linked…

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Benians & Purdy (Pvt) Ltd was located on Union Avenue, Salisbury. The business imported firearms, ammunition, fishing tackle and camping equipment. The business was run under Chairman and Director, Kenneth Havelock Borcherds. The business was a member of the Gunmaker’s Association and a booking agent for Rex Bean’s fishing safaris,…

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Fort Victoria is a city in south-eastern Southern Rhodesia situated close to the Great Zimbabwe Ruins. It is the oldest colonial settlement in Southern Rhodesia which developed around an encampment established in 1890, when the British South Africa Company “Pioneer Column” of the first European colonists passed through on their…

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  There are no records of a business called Elizabeth’s Place (Pvt) Ltd. However, the postal address is the same as Cleveland Agencies (Pvt) Ltd located at 6 Strachan’s Building, 64 Manica Road, Salisbury. Cleveland Agencies were textile merchants.

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Miller, Weedon & Carruthers (C.A.) (Pvt) Ltd was located on the 10th floor of Ottoman House, 53 Jameson Avenue in Salisbury.The were clearing, landing, forwarding and stewardship agents.

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Jassat’s Cash Bazaar was a general dealer located in Rusape.

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The town of Ndola was founded in 1904, by John Edward “Chiripula” Stephenson. The name Ndola is derived from the river, which originates in the Kaloko Hills and drains in the Kafubu River. It was started as a boma and trading post, which laid its foundations as an administrative and…

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