Rhodesian Postcards: Store at Livingston

Postcard is dated 1905

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian Postcards: Mountain Lodge in Vumba

This card was posted on 23/2/64 and was sent to a Miss S Wallace, Fairie Place College, Durrenden Rd, Brighton 6, Sussex, England.

There is no postage stamp on the back although it has the date of 23/2/64 on it

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs.

Click Here for more information on the Vumba

Bird-Watchers Click Here

Rhodesian Postcards: Troutbeck Inn

"Surrounded by pungent pine forests and mountainous vistas, Troutbeck Inn, Inyanga Downs, Rhodesia viewed from across the trout lake."

Complimentary Postcard from Southern Hospitality (Southern being part of the Hotel group)
City Printers was the printing company

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian Postcards: Government House Bulawayo

These 2 old postcards were early prints and had on the back the postage
position marked as "Postage : Inland halfpenny, Overseas One Penny"

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian Postcards: Birchenough Bridge

Details on the back are as follows:

Birchenough Bridge, Southern Rhodesia
Copyright Photograph - E.T. Brown
Box 52, Umtali, S.Rhodesia

Interesting this postcard was printed like a normal photograph and then the details given on the card were then printed onto the back of the photograph to produce the postcard

Click Here for further details on this bridge.

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian Postcards: Cream of Tartar Tree at Victoria Falls

Postcard was never used so no indication of dates.

Details as follows:
This is a real photograph
Published by The Newman Art Publishing Co., Cape Town, Copyright

Also known as the Baobab Tree
"Click Here and see the largest Baobab in the world"

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs

Rhodesian Postcards: Victoria Falls

Postcard of Victoria Falls, incorporating several photographs of the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.



No details of this postcard are known.

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Rhodesian Postcards: Victoria Falls - The Boiling Pot

Postcard: Victoria Falls - The Boiling Pot.



This postcard was printed in Cape Town, and had a Cape Town date stamp on
it, addressed to a Mrs Annie Huish near Manchester in England.
Dated August 15 1942 from Cape Town.

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Rhodesian Postcards: View from Hotel Verandah Victoria Falls

Postcards: View from Hotel Verandah Victoria Falls



Diarmid Writes:-
This postcard was published by the Rhodesia Railways, and was sold to passengers on the rail routes.

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Rhodesian Postcards: Scenery on the Zambesi River Above The Victoria Falls

Postcard of the Scenery on the Zambesi River Above The Victoria Falls



Diarmid Writes:-
This old postcard was an early print and had on the back the postage
Position marked as "Postage : Inland halfpenny, Overseas One Penny".
No date indicated of production date

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian Postcards: Pioneers On Matopo Hills

Postcard of the pioneers on the Matopo Hills, near Bulawayo in Rhodesia.



Not been used so no indication of use date or production date.
Details on Back of the card:
Printed in England
Bulawayo News Agency, Box 194, Bulawayo

Of interest to Diarmid is the broken/spare wagon wheel in bottom left corner of photo?

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian postcards: Gatooma Town House

Post card of the Town House in Gatooma, Rhodesia.



This postcard was part of a range of cards sold through Haddon & Sly in
Salisbury, no date stamp or indication of production date. Only data on the
back says "Copyright reserved, ATELIER, Salisbury"

Click Here for further information on Gatooma

Thanks to Diarmid Smith for sharing his memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian Postcards: Manica Road (Salisbury)

Postcard of Manica Road in Salisbury.

Believe this postcard to be dated between the 1950's to early 1960's.



It is annotated as Manica Road. Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia

Thanks to Trisha Norris for sharing her memories with ORAFs

Rhodesian Photos: Pungwe Pontoon

Trevor Walton Writes:-

Our 1937 Ford V8 and the Bowman family's 1948 Ford 3/4 ton crossing the Pungwe on a pontoon (1949) on our way back from Beira to Umtali



Thanks to Trevor Walton for sharing his photo and memories with ORAFs

Rhodesian Photos: Ventura Aircraft Visits Umtali

Trevor Walton Writes:-

The airplane (a Ventura I think,) landed at the old aerodrome near the cemetery,my mother and I are standing in front.



Comment by Eddy Norris
The aerodrome near the cemetery was referred to as "Perrems."

Thanks to Trevor Walton for sharing his photo and memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian Postcards: Umtali

Postcards of Umtali.


Umtali Civic Centre Complex with the Courtauld Theatre in the background

The following two Postcards are thought to dated in the late 1950's to 1960's and marked as annotated below the card.


Umtali From Christmas Pass. Umtali. Southern Rhodesia


View From Cecil Kop. Umtali. Southern Rhodesia

Thanks to Trisha Norris for sharing her memories with ORAFs.

Rhodesian Postcards: Sinoia Caves

The "Sleeping Pool" 150' from the earth's surface to the water, the pool is approximately 280' deep



Click Here for further information on these Caves.

Suggested further reading, please visit the link below
http://rhodesianheritage.blogspot.com/2011/06/sinoia-caves.html

Postcard made available by Trisha Norris. Thanks Trisha

Rhodesian Postcards: Kariba

Kariba Dam
Dam Wall with five gates open


Kariba Lake
Zambesi River. A view of the Wall from the Rhodesian side looking down stream


Panoramic view of Kariba


Cliick Here for further details on Kariba Dam

Postcards made available by Trisha Norris. Thanks Trisha
Believe these postcards are circa mid to late 1960's.

Rhodesian Postcards: Maleme Dam

Postcard of Maleme Dam near Bulawayo in Rhodesia



Postcard made available by Trisha Norris. Thanks Trisha

Rhodesian Postcards: Finger Rock

Postcard of the Finger Rock which is situated near Zimbabwe Ruins in Rhodesia.
Circa early 1960's.



Postcard made available by Trisha Norris. Thank you Trisha

Rhodesian Postcards: Leopard Rock

The under mentioned Postcards are believed to be from the period between the early 1950's to early 1960's

In second photograph the British Union Jack Flag is visible which then indicates it from Federal days, November 1952 to December 1963.

Leopard Rock was a Hotel situated in the Vumba Mountains, near Umtali in the Eastern Districts of Rhodesia and lay on the border with Mozambique, previously known as Portuguese East Africa (P.E.A.) and was subjected to terrorist attacks during the Rhodesian war.

Swimming Pool

Postcards made available from Trisha Norris. Thanks Trisha.

Rhodesian Postcards: Hot Springs Resort

Postcards of the Hot Springs Resort which was situated about 80kms from Umtali (Mutare) in Rhodesia.

Very popular resort for folk from Umtali.

Swimming Pool

Fishing at Hot Springs Resort

Postcards made available by Eddy Norris and are believed to be from the early 1960's.

Rhodesian Postcards: Salisbury

Wally Joyce recently received a number of Rhodesian Postcards available form Mrs. Pat Wise, widow of the late John who was in the Safety Equipment Section of the Rhodesian Air Force.

















ORAFs records its thanks to Wally Joyce and Pat Wise for making these postcards available to ORAFs.

Mashayamombe's Kraal and Fort Martin

by G. H.TANSER

On the other side of the Umfuli River, sixty miles from Salisbury, lie broken kopjies with massive boulders heaped together or standing singly. Among the rocks are open spaces with trees and patches of bush. Where the rocks meet they form deep caves and recesses. It is a fantastic hide-and-seek area in which a person can be invisible from another one within a few feet.

This area had been occupied towards the end of the nineteenth century by chief Mashayamombe whose people put up their wattle-and-daub huts of twenty-five to a hundred to form villages, each governed by a headman. In the gardens below the kopjes, mealies, kafnr-corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and monkey-nuts were grown, while there were rice beds in the vlcis. To strengthen the defences of the stronghold stone walls were built between the rocks so that it became an excellent refuge, and a fortress in case of attack.

Early in 1896 the Matabele Rebellion broke out. In April, Kagubi, who was organising the rising of the Shona people against the Europeans, visited Mashayamombe.

Plans were made for the outbreak; Matabele warriors were to be brought northwards and, as soon as these arrived, the Europeans were to be attacked.

On June 15th, 1896, the first murder of a European was committed at Mashayamombe's kraal when the Native Commissioner of Hartley, David Moony, visited the chief to investigate the murder of an Indian storekeeper. On the same day two prospectors were seized, bound hand and foot, and whether dead or alive, thrown into the Umfuli.

On June 21st the Natal troop under Captain J. F. Taylor, which was returning to Salisbury from Fort Charter, attacked Mashayamombe but was beaten off and retired.

Mashayamombe now went into the attack. His forces surrounded Hartley Hill and prevented any communication with the outside world, until the laager was relieved by a patrol under Captain Hon. C.J. White on July 22nd.

By August 1896, a small force of Mounted Infantry had arrived in Rhodesia. This Imperial unit under Lieutenant Colonel E. A. H. Alderson, had left Cape Town for Beira.

After fighting two battles with the rebels on the road from Umtali the troops reached Salisbury. There was a shortage of food for both men and horses so it was not until October 5th that Alderson with a force of 500 Europeans and 100 African troops marched against Mashayamombe.


A pincer movement was planned. A patrol under Major A. V. Jenner left Fort Charter attacking from the south, driving the rebels from their kraals on to Mashayamombe's. On the night of October 9th Jenner and Alderson made contact by signals and launched a joint attack on the 10th. Sections of the Mounted Infantry, the Salisbury Rifles and the Native Contingent were sent among the kopjes to clear them. The kraals were burned and the enemy disappeared into the caves in which they lay hidden and later emerged elsewhere. Those caves which could be located were blown up but Mashayamombe moved to other strong points on the Umfuli, and though Alderson attacked these, the results were inconclusive and Mashayamombe, having resisted two attacks, settled down again and, when the rains came, planted his gardens.

Alderson was criticised for his effort which left Mashayamombe with the feeling that he could hold out in his kopjes, but Rhodes was desirous that the Imperial troops should be withdrawn and that the newly formed British South Africa Police should take over.

It was decided to establish a fort in Mashayamombe's area. A kopje with precipitous sides opposite to Mashayamombe's and a mile away was selected as a strong point. The kopje named Fort Martin, was occupied by the B.S.A.P. under Captain R.C. Nesbitt on February 20th. Level places on the kopje were used for wattle and daub buildings and for tents; a seven-pounder gun was mounted on the highest point to command Mashayamombe's kraal. A smaller kopje a hundred yards away from the main Fort was occupied by African Police. "Fort Martin", Nesbitt wrote "is very healthy, being splendidly situated, very high... it is impregnable and the best possible place".

References
1. Report on the native disturbances, 1896-97. British South Africa Company.
2. On the South African Frontier. W. H. Brown. Sampson, Low, Marston, 1899.
3. With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force. E. A. H. Aldcrson. Methuen, 1898.
4. Norton District in the Mashonaland Rebellion, by Col. A. S. I Hickman, M.B.E. in Rhodesiana No. 3, 1958.
5. Pioneer Forts in Rhodesia, by P. S. Garlake in Rhodcsiana, No. 12, September 1965.
6. A Scantling of Time. G. H. Tanser, Stuart Manning, 1965.
7. Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-97. T. O. Ranger. H

Produced by Rhodesian Breweries Limited for the Rhodesiana.
Printed by Mardon Salisbury

ORAFs records it thanks to Diarmid Smith who made this information available for distribution.
Thanks also to the Rhodesian Breweries, Mardon Printers and the Rhodesiana magazine