First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Mount Selinda Mission Medical Department Medical work began at Mount Selinda in the mission’s first year with the opening of a dispensary by Dr. W. L Thompson in 1893. It was the first permanent missionary medical mission staffed by a medical doctor in Southern Rhodesia. The dispensary became a full-fledged hospital in 1912. Dr. Willis…
E Peters Type II – Coloured (50-99)
Southern Rhodesia 1936 Monuments and Relics Act On 8th May 1936, the Southern Rhodesia Government repealed the Ancient Monuments Protection Ordinance of 1902, Bushmen Relics Ordinance of 1911, and Victoria Falls Reservation Preservation Act of 1928 and replaced them with the 1936 Monuments and Relics Act. The new Act brought in the new concept of…
Lennon Limited Bulawayo/Salisbury Barry Grey Lennon, an Irish chemist and nephew of the Governor of Cape of Good Hope, Sir George Grey, settled in Cape of Good Hope on suggestion of his uncle. In 1850 he opened a chemist and druggist in Port Elizabeth as B. G. Lennon and Co. Ltd. Their shops were to be found…
Buluwayo Board of Executors & Trust Co Ltd Bulawayo Bulawayo Board of Directors and Trust Co Ltd was founded in 1895 and is one of the oldest companies in Zimbabwe. The original members were Henry Lamb, W G Swanson, Julius H Pratt and E J Simpson. Contributors James Gavin FB
The Salvation Army Howard Institute In 1923, Major James Barker and Captain Leonard Kirby of The Salvation Army moved the education facility that was at Pearson Farm to Nyachuru in the Chiweshe Communal lands, approximately 80km north of Salisbury (Harare). The new mission was built on 105 acres granted by the British South Africa Company…
