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…
Carlton Hotel Bulawayo Contributor James Gavin Walter Herdzik FB
Puzey & Payne was established in 1897. It was located on the corner of Abercorn Street and Eighth Avenue, Bulawayo. The company was the product of Leonard Grant Puzey and his wife Gertrude Payne. The business first sold ox drawn wagons and bicycles as well as offering repair services. From the early 1920s, the business was…
American Board Mission Mount Selinda The American Board Mission (ABM or American Board) opened its first mission in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in 1893. Two years earlier, ABM missionaries Rev. Wilcox and Dr. W.L. Thompson were on an exploratory trip from South Africa. As fate would have it, on the boat to Beira, Portuguese East Africa…
American Board Mission Chikore Rev. and Mrs. Wilder of the American Board Mission (American Board or ABM) opened Chikore Mission in 1895. Chikore is located in Manicaland Province, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 18 miles northwest of its sister mission station at Mount Silinda (Selinda). Chikore initially consisted of three farms on a total 18,000 acres on…
The Queen’s Hotel Salisbury The Queen’s Hotel was opened on 31 December 1899 on the eve of the twentieth century and consisted of a single storey building on the corner of Manica Road and Kaguvi Street and Pioneer Street. The street side of the building was wrapped in a long timber and iron verandah and…
Cecil Hotel Umtali Cecil Hotel was originally opened c.1890. In 1897 a new building was erected (as above) by Mssrs Snodgrass and Mitchell in preparation for the railway. The first Cecil Taxi, a 1929 Dodge, was used solely to go from the Cecil Hotel to the railway station and back. The hotel eventually became part of Miekle’s…
Ellis Allen Ltd Ellis Allen – Type J The pictures are printed in black & white. The divided backing is printed in black ink, as is the caption below the picture.
Meikle’s Associated Hotels Meikle’s Hotel was established in 1915. It was the brainchild of Thomas Meikles who envisioned a commitment to the “highest possible standard of service and product” – something that has become enshrined in the Meikles culture. Branches Cecil Hotel, Umtali Grand Hotel, Bulawayo Grand Hotel, Selukwe Hartley Hotel, Hartley Hotel Victoria, Victoria…
Seventh-Day Adventist Church Solusi Mission Training School Solusi University, located 50 kilometres west of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is a co-educational institution, which was founded in 1894 as one of the first of the hundreds of Seventh-day Adventist mission stations. It was named after Chief Soluswe, near whose home the Mission was founded. During the first decade…
