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Port Bell (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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Monorail from Luzira (now Port Bell) to Kampala, 1908, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/84
Scope and Contents

A view looking along the monorail track towards the jetties on the shore of the lake. For Bell's brief account of the monorail see Bell (1946), page 180.

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Bell, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/151
Scope and Contents

112 x 63 mm.

Dates: 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Port Bell], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/39
Scope and Contents

80 x 59 mm.

Dates: 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Bell, Lake Victoria, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/3/53-59
Scope and Contents

Includes views of the arrival of ‘The Solent’ Flying Boat and the Regional Director's Office, Kampala.

Dates: 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Port Bell - Seaplane Station site on left], 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1/38
Scope and Contents

82 x 56 mm.

Dates: 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Bell - Seaplane Station site on left, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/150
Scope and Contents

97 x 63 mm.

Dates: 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Monorail from Port Bell to Kampala, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/5
Scope and Contents

85 x 78 mm. A view looking along the monorail track towards the jetties on the shore of the lake. For Bell's brief account of the monorail see Bell (1946), page 180.

Dates: 1906 - 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Tractor and monorail leaving Port Bell from Kampala, 1908-04-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/18
Scope and Contents

99 x 73 mm. Showing the steam engine and carriages leaving Port Bell for Kampala. This 'monorail' was ordered (at a cost of about £3000) by Sir Henry Hesketh Bell and was intended for use until proper road and rail facilities could be established. The monorail was first tested on April 22 1908 and this photograph may well have been taken on its trial run.

Dates: 1908-04-22
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).