136 x 77 mm. A postcard reproduction showing the corrugated-iron roofed building which served as Government House until Bell's new building was completed in 1908. His first impressions of the Residency were not enthusiastic: '6th May ... I cannot say much, however, for Government House. It is a very large bungalow of wood and iron, raised high on piles, and is as ugly and prosaic a building as one would not wish to see. I hope, before I leave Uganda, to have something much better than this. I have already cast my eye on a delightful eminence, at the back of the town, from which there is a wonderful view of the lake and on which the Government House of the future ought, I think, to stand.' (Bell 1946, pp. 114-115).

The old building was sold and became the Hotel Victoria and later still the Secretariat.