Memories of East Africa - Geoff Pollard

Parliament Building, Kampala, prior to Independence and showing the British coat of arms - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Uganda National Theatre, Kampala - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Celebration arch for the Pope's visit to Uganda - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Crowd waiting to see the Pope drive by - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Pope Paul VI amid heavy security in Kampala during his 1969 visit - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Lake Victoria Hotel, Entebbe - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Swimming Pool Entebbe - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

The pool offered good views of aircraft landing or taking off on Entebbe's Runway 12 - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Uganda registered Ford Cortina on the Kampala Masaka road - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Kenya registered Hillman Minx on the Kampala Masaka road - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Typical safari using a Ministry of Works Landrover - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Turbine Hall - Owen Falls Dam - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Wrecked Ford Zodiac - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

The then new Equator sign on the Nakuru Eldoret Road was raised to prevent people writing on it - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Timboroa, not far from the equator, on the Eldoret Nakuru road - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Another wreck - a former British military vehicle - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Thorn Tree sidewalk cafe at the New Stanley Hotel, Nairobi - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Nairobi War Memorial - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Nairobi War Memorial - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

German war memorial in Tanganyika - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Athi River with the Bridge swept away by flash flooding - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Mombasa road - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Mombasa road - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Mombasa road - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Jadini Beach Hotel on Diani Beach which is south of Mombasa and not north as in the case of Malindi - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

 

Mombasa - Proclamation of the East African Protectorate on 1 July 1895 - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Old Mombasa - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Old Mombasa - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

The famous tusks in Mombasa - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

HMS Llandaff - Kilindini - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Kilindini - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Likoni Ferry - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Likoni Ferry - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Livestock aboard MV WARWICK CASTLE - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

For many, a last view of Mombasa - the Oceanic Hotel  - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

Dropping the Pilot  - PHOTO Geoff Pollard

East Africa 50 Years Ago