Gwelo was located in central Southern Rhodesia. The town was founded in 1894 as a military outpost. It’s name originated from the Matabele settlement iKwelo (“The Steep Place”), after the river’s high banks. It was constituted as a municipality in August 1914. Commerce & Industry Peter Falk
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Southern Rhodesia Philately: Victoria Falls
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 Rhodesia Museum S Salisbury & District Publicity Association Southern Rhodesia Publicity Bureau T U Umtali Publicity Association V Victoria…
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Selukwe was established in 1899 by the British South Africa Company and Willoughby’s Consolidated Co Ltd. Its name was derived from a nearby bare oval granite hill that resembled the shape of a pigpen (selukwe) of the local Karanga people. The town was established in 1899 on the Selukwe…
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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,…
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: Birchenough BridgeSouthern Rhodesia Philately: Thos. Cook & Son – Wagon-Lits (S.A.) Ltd.
Cook-Wagon-Lits was located in Stanley House, Stanley Avenue, Salisbury and also Lonrho House, Main Street, Bulawayo. Thomas Cook & Son, was founded by Thomas Cook in 1841 in Britain. In 1924, the company was renamed Thomas Cook & Son Ltd., after acquiring limited liability status. A new headquarters was opened…
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Willoughby’s Consolidated Co Ltd was registered on 13 December 1894 to take over the undertakings of Willoughby’s Mashonaland Syndicate and the Mashona Development Co (Willoughby’s) Ltd. The company held numerous properties and mining claims across Southern Rhodesia. Properties Selukwe References Mining Year Book – Walter Robert Skinner
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Willoughby’s Consolidated Co Ltd established Selukwe with the British South Africa Company.in 1899 and held a number of gold-mining claims in the region.
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: Willoughby’s Consolidated Co Ltd (Selukwe)Southern Rhodesia Philately: Peter Falk
Peter Falk was a florist and nurseryman located on Fifth Street and Moffat Avenue, Gwelo. Falk immigrated from Baden, Germany to Pietersburg, South Africa, in 1892 with his wife Agnes. In 1894 he moved to Gwelo where he began trading as a general dealer and surveyor. In 1896 he served…
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