Old Kenya railway houses

[Da Vinci]

Is their secret the materials that were used ama ni ufundi?

Some of them were built over a hundred years ago. And they look like they can survive an other hundred years more. You look at them na macho ya fundi and you can see that they were even not all that expensive. If you consider that many of them have seen decades of neglect and dilapidation, (remember hata zilitolewa mabati kama zile ziko huko Tsavo vichakani) and they are still standing..., they must been built in a special way and I think it's worthy to do a research.

Ama do you think the building style is obsolete?

 

[upepo]

Is their secret the materials that were used ama ni ufundi?

Some of them were built over a hundred years ago. And they look like they can survive an other hundred years more. You look at them na macho ya fundi and you can see that they were even not all that expensive. If you consider that many of them have seen decades of neglect and dilapidation, (remember hata zilitolewa mabati kama zile ziko huko Tsavo vichakani) and they are still standing..., they must been built in a special way and I think it's worthy to do a research.

Ama do you think the building style is obsolete?
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A product of the quality of materials and workmanship.

 

[Aviator]

Where I was born, the house, which is older than me by far, and made of wood, still stands. Including the roof.
Less than 2 decades ago, I constructed mine, and now the roof demands replacement.
I think it's something to do with quality of material used.

 

[kingolonde]

A product of the quality of materials and workmanship.

true.
At Waa, Kwale, there are some very strong brick buildings inscribed"built in 1923" still standing. I understand they were dorms of Waa Secondary School.
Hapa Ndeiya nyumba za juzi zinaanguka kama kuku iko na kifaduro bana!

 

[Mtumsafi]

I believe it's materials used. No foreman stealing cement etc. Even in CBD there are many very old buildings, close to 100 years old. And they don't even have chuma

 

[Mongrel]

true.
At Waa, Kwale, there are some very strong brick buildings inscribed"built in 1923" still standing. I understand they were dorms of Waa Secondary School.
Hapa Ndeiya nyumba za juzi zinaanguka kama kuku iko na kifaduro bana!

Wewe wacha hakuna nyumba imeanguka ndeiya

 

[Field Marshal]

true.
At Waa, Kwale, there are some very strong brick buildings inscribed"built in 1923" still standing. I understand they were dorms of Waa Secondary School.
Hapa Ndeiya nyumba za juzi zinaanguka kama kuku iko na kifaduro bana!

Mkamba niwache pris............

 

[Montecarlo]

I believe it's materials used. No foreman stealing cement etc. Even in CBD there are many very old buildings, close to 100 years old. And they don't even have chuma

Workmanship too. Alot of useless fellows around claiming to be contractors and fundis....

 

[kijanamrefu]

Ata pyramids. 4500 years old na bado zinasimama.

 

[Amooti]

Materials. There is a place in Narumoro that has some of these buildings. Abandoned, tried just for kicks to put a nail kwa ukuta, even a steel nail couldn't get in

 

[Da Vinci]

And how I would love to see them rehabilitate those beautiful houses, at least for posterity's sake! They spend way too much renovating others, like the Fort Jesus and the Mombasa Old Town Houses, many of them privately owned, why not the Kenya Railways Houses?

 

[Ubongo]

Tuseme ni kazi ya mkoloni ama