Category: Southern Rhodesia

Hotel Cecil was located in Bulawayo and provided 39 rooms for accommodation. During the 1920’s, the proprietor was W Scott-Rodger. Scott-Rodger had over forty years experience in catering and hotel service. For many of those years he operated in connection with the dining saloons of the railways, and was manger…

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Adansonia digitata, the African baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus Adansonia, the baobabs, and is native to the African continent and the southern Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Oman). They are typically found in dry, hot savannas of sub-Saharan Africa, where they dominate the landscape and reveal the…

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Kariba Gorge is a large, natural gorge through which flowed the Zambezi River on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, Africa. It is home to a large numbers of wildlife and the local Tonga people. Stamps & Postal Products 1953 Definitive Series – 2/6d Kariba Gorge References Wikipedia: Kariba Gorge

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A A F Philip & Co Ltd B Bothwell & Co Bulawayo Board of Executors and Trust Company Limited   C Central Cotton Ginneries (Southern Rhodesia) Ltd D E F Fraser & Chalmers (S.A.) Ltd (Bulawayo) G Gloria Cycle Works G North & Son Ltd Grand Hotel (T McMurray &…

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The Main Falls is where most of the water passes over the Victoria Falls. Postcards 1964 – Packaging and Printing Industries (Pvt) Ltd (Type IIID) 1964 – R A Bourlay (Bardwell – Type II) References Siyabona Africa

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Victoria Falls (also known Mosi-oa-Tunya – The Smoke That Thunders) is a waterfall on the Zambezi River. It is located between Zambia and Rhodesia and is one of the world’s largest waterfalls. Though known to some European geographers before the 19th century, Scottish missionary David Livingstone identified the falls in 1855,…

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A B Balancing Rocks (Epworth) Birchenough Bridge C D E F G Great Zimbabwe H I J K Kariba Gorge L Lake Kyle M N O P Q R Rhodes Grave S Salisbury & District Publicity Association Southern Rhodesia Publicity Bureau T U Umtali Publicity Association V Victoria Falls W…

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Birchenough Bridge is the name for both a bridge across the Sabi River. The bridge was funded at a cost of £145,000 and was planned by the Beit Trust, a foundation chaired at the time by Sir Henry Birchenough whose ashes are buried beneath the structure of the bridge. Ralph Freeman,…

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A A W Bardwell & Co (Pvt.) Ltd. B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Packaging and Printing Industries (Pvt) Ltd Q R R A Bourlay S T U V W X Y Z

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Cashel first known as Penkridge, the name of a neighbouring farm on which a Postal Agency had been established in 1911. Cashel became the official designation of the area when a Post Office was established in 1957. It was named after Lt. Col. E. Cashel, a former member of the…

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