Raylton
Raylton
Post Office
History
- 1913.12.12 – Opened.
- 1949.00.00 – Operated from Bulawayo Station.
- 1963.02.28 – Relocated to the old Department of Customs building, Metcalte Sq.
Victoria Sanitary Board 7937 Details Date of Issue: Dept: Fort Victoria Sanitary Board Reqn.: 7937 Printer: Argus & Co. Paper: Quantity: FB
Ellis Allen Ltd Bulawayo Owen Ellis Allen was born in Cambridge, England in 1867. From Cambridge he emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa, where he joined the old established firm of booksellers and newsagents, Messrs Maskew Miller & Company. In 1897, when his employers decided to open up a branch of their business in Rhodesia,…
Real Photo Cards Type IIIB FB
R. A. Bourlay Veld Life PA Series – Type II FB
Helga Vera Johns Helga Vera Johns was born in Southern Rhodesia and became Miss Rhodesia in 1972. Three years later, in 1975, she was elected Miss South Africa but just a few days before the Miss World competition in London, she was disqualified from taking part because she had not lived in the country she…
Around twenty years ago, the noted Double Head collector and connoisseur, Bob Gibbs, reflected that the 1d Double Head was the greatest stamp of the British Empire. Bob will be the first to state that all the research of today is built upon the shoulders of some fine Rhodesian philatelists of yesteryear – such people…