Postcards: E. T. Brown – Type IV – Subject – Melsetter – Southern Rhodesia
E. T. Brown
Type IV – Subject – Melsetter – Southern Rhodesia
G.W. Wilson & Co., Ltd G.W.W. Type I FB
Wesleyan Methodist Church The Wesleyan Methodist Church, currently known as “The Methodist Church of Great Britain,” is a mainline Protestant denomination and “mother church” to Methodists worldwide. Methodism originated through the work of John Wesley and his brother Charles in the 1700’s. Following John Wesley’s death in 1793, the revival movement separated from the Church…
First Regular Mail Service to Cape Town 20 January – 2nd February 1932 Flight Details Operator: Imperial Airways Ltd Flight Plan First Flight Covers From Blantyre From Broken Hill From Bulawayo From Limbe From Mpika From Salisbury References Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle No.117 FB
Royal Hotel Umtali The Royal Hotel, Umtali boasts a long and colourful history. It was positioned in the centre of Main Street and faced the public gardens. In 1895 it held Rhodesia’s first opera – Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury. As there was a serious shortage of young women, members of the British South…
Dwight Lamar Sherertz (1893 -1970) Dwight Lamar Sherertz, a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary to China and Southern Rhodesia, was born March 1893 in East Radford, Virginia. He received a B.A. from Roanoke College, an M.A. from Princeton University, and a honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Roanoke in 1945. He married Margarita Mary Parks (1889-1973)…