Mawaya
Elder Lister
Kwani there were restrictions and who was doing the permitting and monitoring for compliance?
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Mawaya
Elder Lister
Hii ilikuwa inakuja na kale kasindano
ulikuwa umepost ka kudunga stove kakiwa automatic.
You turn the knob kanadunga and then you turn it back to it's normal position taa inawaka kama ghasia.
Aviator
Elder Lister
Anything above that would blow the circuit.
ole wako ukibeba hio taa utingishe tambi ianguke, unavunjwa vita ya century
Aviator
Elder Lister
Hapo ulikua unajituma cemetery mwenyewe
It's Me Scumbag
Elder Lister
Its those situation where you start explain through a flood of tears...consequences were many,ungelala njaa,ungevunjwa na mum na buda akija bado akuone vita and worst of,unakumbushwa at every opportune moment how careless you are. Hiyo pshych war ndo ilikuwanga mbaya. But we survived...unlike these guys wa 'tokens zimeisha mum'
kingolonde
Elder Lister
Swafi.
kingolonde
Elder Lister
Chief....si umenikumbusha mbali...mbali sana
hii radioilikua haiguzwi hivi hivi, ukipatikana unawekwa war na waalimu wote kwa staffroom na kesho yake kwa parade ili uwe funzo
kingolonde
Elder Lister
Muthokoi loading!
kingolonde
Elder Lister
My childhood in pics
kingolonde
Elder Lister
Am speechless.......sande mama saitan
Construction of Torrs Hotel (now Stanbic Bank), Nairobi Circa early 1920s. New Stanley Hotel is on the left of PHOTO.
Torr’s Hotel was built by Colonel Ewart Grogan, he of the walk from Cape to Cairo fame to prove his love for Gertrude, and who later built a children’s hospital named after her.
Torr’s opened for business in 1929. The building is a classic Tudor style example in solid masonry with red brick facing, grouped, full height, arched windows to the ground floor, rectangular casement windows to the upper floors, recessed entrance portal with embellished door frames, complete with a penthouse offering commanding views of the city centre.
On the ground floor was a one-of-a-kind pear-shaped ballroom with an overlooking balcony on the first floor, featuring a hand carved balustrade and magnificent crystal chandeliers hanging majestically from the ceiling. During the time I worked for Grindlays Bank my office was on the first floor and must have served as a guest room in earlier days.
Contrary to popular folklore, Torr’s Hotel was quite a decent establishment and the management maintained a strict code of conduct, including a formal dress code.
Bernard A. Astley, the second headmaster of the Prince of Wales School (Nairobi School) records, in his memoirs, that he was a frequent visitor at Torr’s Hotel in the 1930s.
Because of the patronage of senior members of the police, the hotel was regularly allowed extended operating hours up to 2am. The real party poopers were the aristocratic Happy Valley set who descended on the hotel after their favourite establishments such as The Norfolk, The Stanley and Muthaiga Club closed early.
The intruders regarded the regular patrons with disdain because they deemed them to be of a lower social class. The Happy Valley set often wrecked havoc when they arrived at Torr’s and they believed themselves to be above the law; perhaps quite rightly so. Doubtless, there were many memorable nights at the hotel.
In 1958, Ewart Grogan, sensing the wind of change blowing in Africa, sold the hotel to the Ottoman Bank and relocated to South Africa. The hotel business was closed and thereafter the building served as a bank on the ground, first and second floors while the remainder was let out to tenants. In 1969, Ottoman Bank sold its business in Kenya to National and Grindlays Bank (NGB).
Shortly afterwards in 1970, the Kenya government entered into an agreement with NGB in which a new bank known as Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) was to take over all but two of NGB’s branches in Kenya, with the government owning 100 per cent stake in the new bank.
A new company known as Grindlays Bank International Ltd (GBI) was created to be owned 60 per cent by NGB London and 40 per cent by the State, to take control of the two remaining branches of NGB, one in Nairobi and the other in Mombasa.
The international portion of GBI changed hands several times up until 1992 when Standard Bank of South Africa, operating under the Stanbic banner, took control. Today, the bank is known as CFC Stanbic Bank after merging with CFC Bank in 2007 to create the largest banking merger in Kenya’s history
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Torr’s Hotel was built by Colonel Ewart Grogan, he of the walk from Cape to Cairo fame to prove his love for Gertrude, and who later built a children’s hospital named after her.
Torr’s opened for business in 1929. The building is a classic Tudor style example in solid masonry with red brick facing, grouped, full height, arched windows to the ground floor, rectangular casement windows to the upper floors, recessed entrance portal with embellished door frames, complete with a penthouse offering commanding views of the city centre.
On the ground floor was a one-of-a-kind pear-shaped ballroom with an overlooking balcony on the first floor, featuring a hand carved balustrade and magnificent crystal chandeliers hanging majestically from the ceiling. During the time I worked for Grindlays Bank my office was on the first floor and must have served as a guest room in earlier days.
Contrary to popular folklore, Torr’s Hotel was quite a decent establishment and the management maintained a strict code of conduct, including a formal dress code.
Bernard A. Astley, the second headmaster of the Prince of Wales School (Nairobi School) records, in his memoirs, that he was a frequent visitor at Torr’s Hotel in the 1930s.
Because of the patronage of senior members of the police, the hotel was regularly allowed extended operating hours up to 2am. The real party poopers were the aristocratic Happy Valley set who descended on the hotel after their favourite establishments such as The Norfolk, The Stanley and Muthaiga Club closed early.
The intruders regarded the regular patrons with disdain because they deemed them to be of a lower social class. The Happy Valley set often wrecked havoc when they arrived at Torr’s and they believed themselves to be above the law; perhaps quite rightly so. Doubtless, there were many memorable nights at the hotel.
In 1958, Ewart Grogan, sensing the wind of change blowing in Africa, sold the hotel to the Ottoman Bank and relocated to South Africa. The hotel business was closed and thereafter the building served as a bank on the ground, first and second floors while the remainder was let out to tenants. In 1969, Ottoman Bank sold its business in Kenya to National and Grindlays Bank (NGB).
Shortly afterwards in 1970, the Kenya government entered into an agreement with NGB in which a new bank known as Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) was to take over all but two of NGB’s branches in Kenya, with the government owning 100 per cent stake in the new bank.
A new company known as Grindlays Bank International Ltd (GBI) was created to be owned 60 per cent by NGB London and 40 per cent by the State, to take control of the two remaining branches of NGB, one in Nairobi and the other in Mombasa.
The international portion of GBI changed hands several times up until 1992 when Standard Bank of South Africa, operating under the Stanbic banner, took control. Today, the bank is known as CFC Stanbic Bank after merging with CFC Bank in 2007 to create the largest banking merger in Kenya’s history
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Statue of Lord Delamere being pulled down in November 1963_There was a big debate on what to do with the deposed statue with suggestions it be melt and refashioned into likeness of Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta. It was however returned to Delamere’s family who placed it on their Soysambu estate in Naivasha.
Luther12
Elder Lister
Hii siikumbuki.
The Advance to Nairobi to City Status 1946 -1950
The retirement of Mr C E Mortimer from the Commissioner for Local Government and Lands and his appointment as the new Member for Health and Local Government with, as it were, Cabinet status, was an event not without significance for Nairobi.Nairobi now had a friend at court who understood the land and development problems which had beset the town since the early part ofthe Century.
The laying of the twelve-inch main to Ruiru assumed the character of a military operation. In January, 1946, it was reported that African artisan works company several hundreds strong had been lent by the military and that a number of artisans were on loan from the Kenyan and Uganda Railways and Harbours; the Municipal Council was employing a number of Africans and artisans, and there were two contracting firms at work on trench-digging with their own large labour quotas. At the same time the council was askingfor new water conservation measures in the town, reviewing its water reserves and exploring possible dam sites. In March, in co-operation with the Member for Agriculture and Natural Resources a scheme was put forward for the construction of an earth dam in the Mutoini River Valley below the Royal Nairobi Golf Club. It was considered that the council should start work within seven days, working by floodlighting if necessary, in order that the dam should be ready before the onset of the long rains. The Member added,"It must of course be appreciated that embarking on emergency work of this magnitude at short notice was without meticulous technical investigation must entail an element of risk. In other words, it is a gamble which may however be justified by the present situation."
The town was rapidly becoming "demilitarised." Early in 1946, the special seats for soldiers, labelled "askari tu" were removed. The W.T.S. gave up the Loreto Convent and were concentrated with other women's services at Kenton. After March, the rent of the Servicewomen's hostel in Portal Street, hitherto paid by the town, was taken over by the Army. The broadcasting of news to Africans at the Municipal Market was discontinued. But if the withdrawal of military units lent colour to the suggestion that Nairobi would revertto prewar conditions, there were signs of other difficulties ahead. There were more Africans in employment in secondary industries in the town even more than ever before, and the council was obliged to set up an African canteen for the convenience of these artisans. Many of the Imperial troops had doffed their uniforms, but remained to settle. Housing difficulties were growing although a questionnaire in the Press elicited only twelve replies from persons interested in municipal housing. The old five-year plan which had been pigeon-holed at the beginning of the war was taken out and re-exaimed in light of the Town Planner's report which was ready in July, although the finished publications were notvon sale to the public for anothervtwenty months.
The retirement of Mr C E Mortimer from the Commissioner for Local Government and Lands and his appointment as the new Member for Health and Local Government with, as it were, Cabinet status, was an event not without significance for Nairobi.Nairobi now had a friend at court who understood the land and development problems which had beset the town since the early part ofthe Century.
The laying of the twelve-inch main to Ruiru assumed the character of a military operation. In January, 1946, it was reported that African artisan works company several hundreds strong had been lent by the military and that a number of artisans were on loan from the Kenyan and Uganda Railways and Harbours; the Municipal Council was employing a number of Africans and artisans, and there were two contracting firms at work on trench-digging with their own large labour quotas. At the same time the council was askingfor new water conservation measures in the town, reviewing its water reserves and exploring possible dam sites. In March, in co-operation with the Member for Agriculture and Natural Resources a scheme was put forward for the construction of an earth dam in the Mutoini River Valley below the Royal Nairobi Golf Club. It was considered that the council should start work within seven days, working by floodlighting if necessary, in order that the dam should be ready before the onset of the long rains. The Member added,"It must of course be appreciated that embarking on emergency work of this magnitude at short notice was without meticulous technical investigation must entail an element of risk. In other words, it is a gamble which may however be justified by the present situation."
The town was rapidly becoming "demilitarised." Early in 1946, the special seats for soldiers, labelled "askari tu" were removed. The W.T.S. gave up the Loreto Convent and were concentrated with other women's services at Kenton. After March, the rent of the Servicewomen's hostel in Portal Street, hitherto paid by the town, was taken over by the Army. The broadcasting of news to Africans at the Municipal Market was discontinued. But if the withdrawal of military units lent colour to the suggestion that Nairobi would revertto prewar conditions, there were signs of other difficulties ahead. There were more Africans in employment in secondary industries in the town even more than ever before, and the council was obliged to set up an African canteen for the convenience of these artisans. Many of the Imperial troops had doffed their uniforms, but remained to settle. Housing difficulties were growing although a questionnaire in the Press elicited only twelve replies from persons interested in municipal housing. The old five-year plan which had been pigeon-holed at the beginning of the war was taken out and re-exaimed in light of the Town Planner's report which was ready in July, although the finished publications were notvon sale to the public for anothervtwenty months.
onlyadults were taking it,yetu ilikua fanta orange by force