Zambia: Where it all began

"Bruce Keevil and Dad used to check grade all the tobacco together and one day whilst working side by side Bruce asked Dad to read an article in the Rhodesian Farmer about an assisted settlement scheme in  Mkushi,  in what was then Northern Rhodesia, Bruce said that my parents would never make any money working for anyone else and this would be a golden opportunity for us to get started. Dad's reply was that we had no money to even think about it, the reply from Bruce was beg borrow or steal but  TRY."

The rest is, as they say History, Dad got the money, and we moved to Mkushi, here are some photos that I've scanned from small black and white photos that Mum has in her treasure chest!!

A truck load of our goods, one of 13 loads that were taken transported
from Southern Rhodesia to Northern Rhodesia

On Arrival at our new home, we drink tea which the 'cook boy' has made

Our new home!!! Mud hut where Ellie and Lion roam

Mum in the 'Kitchen' this stove is still in the house

The Miombo forest, that I came to love so much

Water tank being raised onto anthill

Tobacco barns being built

The building started, after making his own bricks, Dad built our first house, then he built a house for his parents and tobacco barns. 

Building our house

Our house nearly complete, the caption on the back of this photos says,
 note the fertilizer stacked on the right side of the house,
ready to be stored in the house before we moved in!! Typical farmer

Tobacco barns complete

Peter with a little lamb

Mum with a calf, note the wall behind her, this wall is in my post of when I was in Mkushi

Peter, Anthony and I on our brand new verandah

New bikes, one does not see bikes like this anymore

Dad, Peter and I on our horses

When we were all much younger,