Any interest in a simple Photo thread?

[3dogs]

All Familiar names. I was in Salisbury (Now Harare) and went to Prince Edward High School. Left in 1966. Political storm clouds on the horizon, and I had a young family by then. Was castigated as a chicken, and coward by my contemporaries. Strange times!!
Bounced around a few places before finally ending up in Canada in 1977. Was a grueling process to immigrate to Canada in those days, and Australia was probably next stop if Canadians rejected my application.

"Remember - Bok bok, keneky and British Bulldogs?" - Yes indeed. Those were the days.

RS

I swam against PE at the inter schools in Salisbury. Picked for the Jamison High (Gatooma) team while i was still at Hillside Junior.
In Salisbury lived at Lochinvar. If I remember PE had a fantastic butterfly young fella had one bung leg....he was FAST but may be a bit younger than you as I was 18 when we left Bulawayo in May '65.

Cowards nothing.....we were clearing hand grenades from firewood piles by blowing them up at Recreation Parks, My sister was living behind 12' high barbed wire fence and the floor of the Landie was steel plate of grenades set up on the roads. They carried 2 xGreener shotties and a machine gun in the cabin of the Landie whenever the went outside the perimeter fence. Folks outside have NO idea, it was as bad as any of the stuff going on in the Middle East, but the Poms and Yanks just sat back an let us cop a thrashing because we were just white racists.......who is racist now ?

Keywording:

Rhodes Grave, Ndaba,Matopos,Rondaaval,Bobojaan,Blueskop Lizzard,Boomslang,Nagaapie night ape,Vervet,Mealies, N'Kozikaas,MPoopoo,sudza,twaala,umfazi,picininni,Baas, Sabenza,Strips,Harare Township, Grand Hotel, Meikles, S546743, Salisbury Drive in, Location,Weaver,Bishop Bird, Skelum, Tsotsi, Mupani, Vumba Heights,BlueGum, Chamelion - Fambagaash, Mombie, Waiter, Houseboy, Cook, Nyama-meat, Zimbabwe Ruins, AC - African Constable, Land Rover, Belvadere Airport, Sanoya -Caves, Kopjie, Hoe gaan dit? Yerra!, Ooa Got!,
Braaivleis, Rhodesia Railways, Rooinek, Go away Bird, Humming Birds, Frankolin, Guinea Fowl, Kudu, Dich Dick, Fork tail Drongo, Butcher Bird, Legavaan, Barbel, Vundu, Kareba Dam, Operation Noahs Ark, bonsella - gift. ............

 

[3dogs]

The only way I could get a Panorama of this was to use the lower end of the 24-105. There is a viewing platform now, the idea is to confine folks to a particular area to avoid damage in the area. Downside is it was built so it bounces, upside....there isn't one!
AS the sun came up the shadows cast by the Sheoak look like a ghostly army passing.....

Uluru ( Ayres Rock) is a solid piece of rock. This is clay and river pebbles. They are close enough to be able to see each from the other.

Archeologists (British Museum) and Anthropologists say that the aboriginal got here just 5,000 years ago walked South from Asia when it was linked by dry land
Coupla problems here, no one to our North looks vaguely like our Aboriginal up there, and second (of many) this Dreamtime story:
The Tribes living hereabouts got to arguing so some fella whose name I now forget made a barrier between, with his hands he scraped up the rivers and creeks running through and deposited them in the form of a wall....fact is there is a series of these, much less spectacular in a long line going out into the remote desert, This structure extends up to 1.5 - 2 Km (1 mile) straight down......its thought they were connected and some MASSIVE upheaval tumbled them over and broke them up.

Here is a detail shot of what the Olgas are made from......Clearly water worn river rubble and in MASSIVE volume, equally clearly moved by some enormous flooding event.....How I ask myself could the Aboriginal have such a legend if they were not hereabouts to witness it and passed it down the generations.....clearly they have some idea of how these things are formed....This mess was created 250,000 years ago, if we can trust the same Archeologists.........would you?

 

[stratman]

Archeologists (British Museum) and Anthropologists say that the aboriginal got here just 5,000 years ago walked South from Asia when it was linked by dry land

I think your timeline is off by maybe a factor of ten or more. Australian Aboriginals may have been on the land for 60,000 years, maybe much more. It is believed they arrived during the last ice age when there was a solid connection between Australia and New Guinea, or maybe they came in boats. The bridge of land was submerged/destroyed by rising ocean waters ~12,000 years ago or more, so the Aboriginals were around to witness the disappearance. DNA analysis demonstrate African roots that can be traced to New Guinea, the Philippines and India. The Aboriginals were not a separate wellspring of home sapiens but they were separate from other homo sapiens for thousands of years after the land bridge vanished.

Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans!

 

[The Hat]

Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans!

And what about the rest of us guys, can't we raise a glass to celebrate too..

 

[stratman]

@The Hat Absolutely, my friend. Drinks are on me!

 

[Roy Sletcher]

I swam against PE at the inter schools in Salisbury. Picked for the Jamison High (Gatooma) team while i was still at Hillside Junior.
In Salisbury lived at Lochinvar. If I remember PE had a fantastic butterfly young fella had one bung leg....he was FAST but may be a bit younger than you as I was 18 when we left Bulawayo in May '65.


Keywording:

Rhodes Grave, Ndaba,Matopos,Rondaaval,Bobojaan,Blueskop Lizzard,Boomslang,Nagaapie night ape,Vervet,Mealies, N'Kozikaas,MPoopoo,sudza,twaala,umfazi,picininni,Baas, Sabenza,Strips,Harare Township, Grand Hotel, Meikles, S546743, Salisbury Drive in, Location,Weaver,Bishop Bird, Skelum, Tsotsi, Mupani, Vumba Heights,BlueGum, Chamelion - Fambagaash, Mombie, Waiter, Houseboy, Cook, Nyama-meat, Zimbabwe Ruins, AC - African Constable, Land Rover, Belvadere Airport, Sanoya -Caves, Kopjie, Hoe gaan dit? Yerra!, Ooa Got!,
Braaivleis, Rhodesia Railways, Rooinek, Go away Bird, Humming Birds, Frankolin, Guinea Fowl, Kudu, Dich Dick, Fork tail Drongo, Butcher Bird, Legavaan, Barbel, Vundu, Kareba Dam, Operation Noahs Ark, bonsella - gift. ............

Some stuff snipped to save bandwidth.

This gets more uncanny by the minute. I also lived in Lochinvar for a short time in early fifties while I was a schoolboy at PE. It was a township of Railway employees at the time and, my father worked for Rhodesia Railways.

You may recall the adjoining Highfield Road. The girl who became my wife worked at a branch of Barclay`s Bank on Highfield Road. One of her customers was a young political upstart called Robert Mugabe. He was charming and obnoxious then. Just obnoxious now.

Your Key words all bring back memories of that era.

One by product of the times is that old friends are now scattered throughout the world. Many left for Australia because they perceived similar climate and life style. Still in touch with some, but not many. Rather sad, but that is life.

Regards

Roy Sletcher

 

[3dogs]

Some stuff snipped to save bandwidth.

This gets more uncanny by the minute. I also lived in Lochinvar for a short time in early fifties while I was a schoolboy at PE. It was a township of Railway employees at the time and, my father worked for Rhodesia Railways.

You may recall the adjoining Highfield Road. The girl who became my wife worked at a branch of Barclay`s Bank on Highfield Road. One of her customers was a young political upstart called Robert Mugabe. He was charming and obnoxious then. Just obnoxious now.

Your Key words all bring back memories of that era.

One by product of the times is that old friends are now scattered throughout the world. Many left for Australia because they perceived similar climate and life style. Still in touch with some, but not many. Rather sad, but that is life.

Regards

Roy Sletcher

Was in Lochinvar in 1952 where I started School. My father was also on the Railways a Station Foreman and on the Relief (briefly), a stepping stone to promotion to Station Master....was a lifelong friend of the Edmanstones (Colin & Amy). They had a big house on the hill on the way to the Station. We then moved to Hillside!!!!

 

[3dogs]

I think your timeline is off by maybe a factor of ten or more. Australian Aboriginals may have been on the land for 60,000 years, maybe much more. It is believed they arrived during the last ice age when there was a solid connection between Australia and New Guinea, or maybe they came in boats. The bridge of land was submerged/destroyed by rising ocean waters ~12,000 years ago or more, so the Aboriginals were around to witness the disappearance. DNA analysis demonstrate African roots that can be traced to New Guinea, the Philippines and India. The Aboriginals were not a separate wellspring of home sapiens but they were separate from other homo sapiens for thousands of years after the land bridge vanished.

Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans!

My reportage is 100% accurate Mungo Man and Mungo Woman forced a (still disputed) concession and was based not on dna but on skull thickness. The Lead Mungo researcher has samples of skulls showing that there were both thick skull and thin skull living side by side.
They argue that the traffic was in fact the other way and that tbe Aboriginal originated here. Dreamtime folklaw has too many simple but scientifically proven roots in fact to be ignored. Mungo Man was carbon dated at roughly 40,000 years...the sands of Mungo are still rolling back and at the ĺast count I heard they had 125 human remains including the first example of cremation. Being that I was not here at the time I cant say with authority BUT science has more than its fair share of wannabe's espousing dross. A dreamtime that has accurate facts on one side and stuffed shirt never-were on the other......I will go with the oral every time.

We contend that the only genuine links are in South America, not Asia at all.

 

[stratman]

We contend...

Who is "we"?

I admire the Aboriginals' ability to exist on such harsh lands. I have no horse in this race @3dogs other than the desire for accuracy in what is known while allowing room for a bit of romanticism in the unknown.

 

[Roy Sletcher]

Was in Lochinvar in 1952 where I started School. My father was also on the Railways a Station Foreman and on the Relief (briefly), a stepping stone to promotion to Station Master....was a lifelong friend of the Edmanstones (Colin & Amy). They had a big house on the hill on the way to the Station. We then moved to Hillside!!!!

This is getting seriously weird. We were not in Lochinvar long having come down from Northern Rhodesia where my father was required by his terms of employment (Locomotive driver) to serve time in a tropical region. After about six months in Lochinvar he bought a house in Hillside. In actual fact it was Braeside, the suburb adjoining the more upscale Hillside. My mother, always conscious of the English concept of class, liked to say she lived in Hillside. Your friends names are not recognizable. Not surprising. The only people I can recall in the big houses near the station were the Smallpiece's, and that was because the had a blonde daughter about my age named Georgina. I think her father was pretty well up in the Railway administration. I can recall only one person who went to Lochinvar School in your time, a friend called Cecil Gregan.

Cheers

RS