Que Que’s First Street, 1930. (Notice the baboon on the donkey’s back) Jacks of All Trades When Gervas Hughes arrived back in Que Que in 1928 there was still no electric power for Que Que, but the G&P Mine supplied water from their pipeline, originating from

Loading Gervas Hughes wagon with logs for the Globe and Phoenix Mine, 1929. Sobering Up After Repairs By the mid 1930s, Gervas Hughes was doing well in Que Que.   He had built a new building to house a mill and a larger office which Mrs. Byerly, sister of Mesdames Birch

Gervas Hughes’ ox wagon inward bound with a load of firewood on the Gokwe Road, 1929. N.B. Gervas’ brand GK3 and the Rhodesian yoke Making a Fast Buck by Ox Wagon For the third time in seven years Gervas Hughes arrived back in Que Que in 1928 having  recovered

Dorothy Crowther-Smith (far L) and Gervas Hughes (far R) baling hay at her farm in Bordon, Hampshire during his recovery from polio.  (N.B. Gervas’ withered R arm and shoulder) Milking a Recovery After a month at the  two-bed G&P Mine dispensery in Que Que under the care

A bogged wagon on Que Que’s early roads. The Lure of Africa Before the Great War, as a schoolboy in Llanbedr, near Crickhowell in a remote Welsh valley, Gervas Hughes collected  double headed stamps from the Globe and Phoenix MIne sent by his half-brother Tom (Reginald).  At university his

In 1936 G.W. Hughes of  Greenham Farm, 13 miles west of  Que Que, home delivered milk by bicycle Hughes Milk Gervas Wylde Hughes, came from a remote Welsh Valley and arrived in Que Que to stay with his broher on the Globe and Phoenix Mine in 1921 at the