Locales

Location of Wreck / Murder

Page 255: 

at the junction of the Karen and Ngong roads; asphalt now

St Andrew's Church, a few yards from the old murram pit (not there back in 1941)

google maps in 2020 show the St Andrews Church located well away from this intersection;

2.4 miles from Broughto's Marula Manor, to the southwest;

Happy Valley

• first time it was really mentioned page 23
• given the name in the early 1920s
• anywhere between the Aberdares and the town of Gilgil on the plain might have qualified for Happy Valley
• real center: beside the Wanjohi river which ran down from Kipipiri - the mountain that stood at tis head -- which joined the Aberdare escarpment by a saddle-shaped cedar forest;
• description of this beautiful garden of Eden, p. 23

Homes/Ranches

Doddington: Cheshire, England, Doddington: Delamere's estate

Rongai: Sir Francis Scott and Lady Eileen Francis; built in 1922

• northwest of Nairobi, on north spur of the railroad
• in the valley
• to the northeast: Mt Kenya
• to the south: the Aberdare mountain ridge which runs northwest to southeast

Burgeret: Jack Soames, p. 22

• new arrival; arrived at age 32; arrived in 1920;
• a "veranda farmer" -- typical of the settlers that arrived after the war
• an old Etonian
• many thousands of acres at Burgeret, near Nanyuk, at the foothills of the Aberdares;
• last stop on the north spur of the railroad

Oserian (Djinn Palace):

• south shores of Lake Naivasha
• not sure what page first mentioned, but index first entry for page 46; mentioned much earlier than this; description begins page 45 when Erroll and new wife Molly move into Molly's home she got in divorce from Ramsay-Hill;
• Erroll inherits this mansion through his wife, Molly; from Ramsay-Hill;

Soysambu:

• northwest of Gilgil
• p. 16: Delamere's cattle estate
• p. 56: Broughton stays with Delamere and Gwladys when Brougthon arrives in Kenya, 1928, when he met Erroll at Muthaiga

 Marula Manor: 

• I don't think this is named in the book; not in the index; not found with word search;
• Broughton's home in Karen;
• 2.4 miles from the site of the crash; south of the Ngong Road

Clubs

• Muthaiga Country Club: most exclusive of them all; description begins page 23;
• young French visitor: Count Frédéric de Janzé, described the club in Vertical Land;
• Evelyn Waugh mentioned again, p. 26
• Ali: a powerful Somali who ran the dining room
• annual Eton Ball

Hotels

• Nairobi:
• The Norfolk Hotel
• run by a formidable lady known as "Auntie"
• "practically ran the country"
• Torr's Hotel: "Tart's Hotel"
• built by Gorgan in 1928
• thés dansants held each afternoon in the Palm Court lounge

By the early 1920s:

• livestock: Gilgil, Nakuru
• sheep and cattle: Naivasha
• coffee: Thika
• wheat: Njoro
• flax: Londiani, in the west

Bungalow mansions: "Surrey Tudor" style;

• peculiar to Kenya;
• Indian builders strained to imitate Edward Lutyens
• tiled roofs instead of corrugated iron, with open stone hearths and large, comfortable sitting roome;
• large verandas upported on brick pillars
• "Equatorial Ealing" -- James Cameron
• universal steel window frames; smallness of the windows themselves; gloominesss of the grey9sh-yelow stone
• large, magnificent gardens;

Nakuru; near here, Joss had a farm

Gilgil, on the plain below the Kinankop, four separate polo fields

Narok:

• chapter 4
• Joss and Molly tented there on safari

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