NAIROBI SCHOOL
The cover of "Childhood Memories" is based on a photo taken of the school in about 1927-1930 from the style of clothing and some of the people identified. We would like to have more information about the school. Does anyone know if a history of the School has ever been written and if so by whom and when ? The original school started before WW1 and was attended by Beryl Markham who was sent there from Njoro in 1911 according to her biographer Errol Trzebinski in "The lives of Beryl Markham ". It was then called The Nairobi European School and was later to become the Nairobi Primary School when the older pupils were hived off to the secondary Kenya Girls High School and the Prince of Wales School for boys. Since Independence in 1963 the Prince of Wales School has become known as Nairobi School.
If anyone would like to have a copy of this photo to help in the identification of those on it, please communicate. By email to : bongobooks@hotmail.com or to the postal address shown for book ordering on this site. It is a remote chance that someone in the photo is still alive and able to recall who was there when the picture was taken.
If anyone would like to have a copy of this photo to help in the identification of those on it, please communicate. By email to : bongobooks@hotmail.com or to the postal address shown for book ordering on this site. It is a remote chance that someone in the photo is still alive and able to recall who was there when the picture was taken.
posted by Bongo Books at 7:41 AM
2 Comments:
The old Prince of Wales is now known as Nairobi School. To avoid confusion that should be made clear.
It is highly unlikely that there will be any confusion. Certainly amongst those to whom the book is likely to have the greatest appeal.
The book covers the period wherein the school was never known as Nairobi School.
Were any of the accounts from the period after the name change there could be some rare, inconsequential & very small confusion. But as there are no such accounts, any reference to "now known as.." would be superfluous and, indeed, likely to cause a confusion which does not yet exist.
The book is about the times of the Prince of Wales School. What it may have become or been renamed later is neither here nor there.
This is a book about the childhoods of European colonists. It is not about the sensitivities or political correctness aspirations of the contemporary indigene.
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