1963 – QEII Pictorial Definitive Series (Booklet)
Rhodesia & Nyasaland Government Stationery Office – 7060/57/S Details Date of Issue: September, 1957 Dept: Government Stationery Office Reqn.: 7060/57/S Printer: P. A. & Co. Paper: Quantity: 1,250,000 FB
Scanlen & Holderness Salisbury Scanlen & Holderness, was founded by Sir Thomas Scanlen (b.1834). Scanlen first set foot in Rhodesia in September 1894. For the previous twenty years he had been one of the most prominent personalities in the Cape. He had been a Member of Parliament from 1870 to 1895 and a Cabinet Minister…
Peter Prestage 1842 – 1907 Father Peter Prestage was born in London, England in 1842. He was educated at Mount St. Mary’s College, the College at Liege and Stonyhurst College. In 1860, he “took steps towards missionary work when he entered the Noviceship of the Society of Jesus at Beaumont.” He completed his theological studies…
National Gallery of Rhodesia Salisbury The National Gallery of Rhodesia was initially planned in the 1930s, but the outbreak of the Second World War impeded the colonial government’s involvement in its progress. However, the idea was given new life when in 1943, Sir James McDonald, a friend and colleague of Cecil John Rhodes, left a…
Roman Catholic Church St. Anthony’s Mission Fr. Joseph Winterhaler of the Bethlehem Mission Society (SMB – or Swiss Bethlehem Fathers) established St. Anthony’s Mission in Zaka, Southern Rhodesia in 1948-49. Zaka is located approximately 50 miles southeast of Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria) in the Ndanga Communal Land, which is populated by the Karanga peoples. Situated…
The Salvation Army The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian movement and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.5 million, consisting of soldiers, officers and adherents known as Salvationists. The Army was founded in 1865 in London by one-time Methodist circuit-preacher William Booth and his wife Catherine as the East London Christian Mission….
