Once Called Home A Duck on the First Googly My brother, David, playing backyard cricket. A Duck on the First Googly Basil Prior joined the Globe and Phoenix Mine in 1945 to work underground. At 2 pm everyday, Ethne, his wife, would send the garden boy over to the shaft-head to leave a change of clothes and her bicycle.
Once Called Home Two Ducks in a Row Chris Duckworth, Que Que’s Springbok Cricketer in action. Two Ducks in a Row Que Que born Chris Duckworth became Rhodesia’s second Springbok Cricketer. He played in two Tests against the 1956-57 English cricket team as a batsman. Both Tests were won by South Africa. In the thirty three
Once Called Home A Good Sport Springbok Chris Duckworth gets a Smile and a Handshake from the Queen A Good Sport The British introduced cricket to India in 1721, where it slowly but steadily gained universal popularity, in contrast to southern Africa, where it remained the preserve of English-speaking South Africans for well over a century.
Once Called Home A War Time Wedding Basil Prior and and Ethne Laurie on their Wedding Day, April 1 1945 A War Time Wedding Long distance courting was tiring. Basil Prior, of the Globe and Phoenix Mine, asked Ethne Laurie, of the Cam and Motor Mine, for her hand in marriage. A War Time Wedding The wedding
Once Called Home Riding the Caboose to Court Ethne Laurie and Basil Prior Riding the Caboose to Court When Basil Prior was discharged from the Transvaal Horse Artillery in 1945 he got a job as a mining contractor underground on the Globe and Phoenix Mine. He lodged at the mine single quarters. Like many returning ex-servicemen he had
Once Called Home School Cadets Que Que High School Cadets. Foreground facing band Sergeant Major Colin Pittaway. Band Leader Green. First row L to R: Cecil Monks, Barry Kruger and Barry Erasmus. School Cadets School cadets was compulsory for older boys. They paraded on Wednesday afternoons on the field between the Gwelo and Gokwe roads.
Once Called Home I Walk Beside You Rhodesian Garratt forging full steam ahead I Walk Beside You In Que Que’s early days before the turn of the twentieth century, travel was by donkey cart, which took three days to cover the forty miles from Que Que to the nearest town, Gwelo. With the advent of rail
Once Called Home The Little Town That Could Umniati River in flood with the new bridge under construction The Little Town That Could The Beira and Mashonaland Railway Company completed the rail link south between Salisbury and the Globe and Phoenix Station, later called Que Que, in 1901. The link to Bulawayo was completed a year later. Now
Once Called Home Hitching a Ride On the road with Mr. Hector de Jager of Que Que. Hitching a Ride A teenage boy borrowed his dad’s car only for a very special occasion for a very special girl he was ‘hitched to’. Otherwise he used his bicycle or walked around town. Distances were great between
Once Called Home Fisherman's Paradise Que Que Angling Society 1937 Fisherman’s Paradise Mr. George Venturas sold furniture, Jackson electric stoves and Electrolux and cold-spot refrigerators from his shop diagonally opposite the Menashe’s first store with the house in the back on First Avenue. He was the agent for Phillips, Pye, and Zenith radios.
Once Called Home Chutzpah Sarina Menashe’s Pineapple Sponge Cake Chutzpah In the beginning, the Menashe family lived humbly in the back of the first store they acquired up the corner from First Street on First Avenue in Que Que. Still, Mrs. Sarina Menashe prided herself in producing delicious Sephardic meals for the family
Once Called Home Abraham and Ishmael Que Que’s Mosque. Abraham and Ishmael Ishmael was the first son of Mr. Bahadur. Mr. Bahadur wanted his sixteen year old son to be a success. He pleaded with Mr. Menashe to take Ishmael on at his Haberdashery store and teach him the business. Abraham and Ishmael In the
Once Called Home The Fabric of Private Education Sebakwe Poort The Fabric of Private Education Mr. Aaron Menashe arrived in Southern Rhodesia 1919 from the island of Rhodes. By 1938 he owned A. Menashe Corner in Que Que, which consisted of four shops. The Fabric of Private Education In the Haberdashery they sold Lister wools from Yorkshire as
Once Called Home Just in Time The main shaft of the Globe & Phoenix Mine, Que Que. The richest gold mine in Southern Rhodesia Just In Time Aaron Menashe’s father, Abraham, was a hardened trader on the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. Every day, at the break of dawn, he would set out
Once Called Home A Warship for Que Que? HMS Bulawayo A Warship for Que Que? It was, in the words of Thomas Pakenham, “perhaps the central paradox of British imperialism, that the British taxpayer was too absentminded to pay for the expansion of the empire. Hence the governments of the day (Tory or Liberal) left it to a
Once Called Home Charm? Que Que’s new Civic Centre at the head of Main Street, designed by Vic Jenkinson, one of John Austen’s grandsons Charm? After the WWII it took someone with the long view, coordinated planning and a bold financial plan for Que Que to reach its potential and garner the
Once Called Home The Cinderella Town The original Que Que village board offices in 1934 withQue’s First Mayor, John Austen (born Johan Osterlund) presiding flanked by his wife, Mayoress Lily Prudence (nee Nolan) and John MacIntosh the Town Clerk The Cinderella Town With White occupation of Rhodesia in the 1890’s and the subjugation of
Once Called Home Thinking Independently Helen Jenkinson and her two daughters, Leslie and Gail, sitting astride an eighteen foot crocodile shot at the Umniati/Sanyati junction. Thinking Independently After Sir Edgar Whitehead’s moderate government lost the general election he called in 1962, confidence in the country began to wane. Vic Jenkinson, was a young
Once Called Home Taking Charge of a Charge Vic Jenkinson Fending Off a Wildebeest Charge. Taking Charge of a Charge Vic Jenkinson loved the bush. He would walk for miles teaching his daughters, Leslie and Gail, how to collect snares, look for ant-bear holes and teach them which mushrooms to pick after the rains came. Taking Charge of
Once Called Home How Sable Park Got Its Name Vic Jenkinson welcoming the first kudu released into Sable Park How Sable Park Got its Name Que Que’s African population was growing very fast at Mbizo Township with secondary industries in Que Que arising from RISCO’s steelworks nearby. UDI and world sanctions gave the local economy a boost.
Once Called Home Receptive to New Ideas Mrs. Hobane standing beside Mayor Vic Jenkinson as he talks about the creation of adjoining Sable Park with a presentation of trees and wildlife. They are flanked by Mom on the L and Mrs. Helen Jenkinson on the R seated. African Women assembled at Echo Park for the annual Provincial
Once Called Home Campfires Burning... Loreto Guides cooking breakfast at Echo Park 1959 Campfires Burning… Girl Guiding had rituals associated with it, beginning with a left-handed handshake, the hand closest to the heart. Campfires Burning… As with all camps, the Loreto/Jairos Jiri Camp which included the deaf and blind began each day before breakfast
Once Called Home Say Cheese! Sister Assumpta and Mom flank Guides from Loreto Mission and students from Jairos Jiri Center including the Deaf and Blind at their first camp at Echo Park. African Guider Florence Chileshe from Amaveni Township and Coloured Guider Rosina Rensberg from Selukwe and four senior African Guides saw to the smooth
Once Called Home Going Where No One Else Will Go Dedicated German Swiss Catholic Nuns established a School for the Deaf at Loreto Mission 60 miles from Que Que Going Where No One Else Will Go Catholic Missions can be found in the most isolated of places, where no one else will go. German Swiss nuns established a school at
Once Called Home Thank You God Mrs. Thetis Katsouris and Self Help African Women showing off one of their blankets presented to the Jairos Jiri Association in Gwelo. Girls include: Gertrude Mundenda, Vongai Mbadzo, Isabel Chileshe, Noreen Phirie, Rosemanry Makleka. Margaret Phiri, Jane Sunga. Thank You God Mrs. Katsouris was not successful in teaching the finer
