i managed to come across these photos so you could c for urselves how clean and neat our city was and still 'IS" :-)
Aerial View of Kampala with parliamentary buildings and the city council
Kibuli Mosque yup ..
A later view of Kampala after Independence. Entebbe Road runs diagonally from the bottom of the picture to its junction with City Road between Motor Mart and Barclays Bank. The large tower (top centre) is the Apollo Hotel(Sheraton Hotel) which dwarfs the Speke Hotel in front of it
Roman Catholic Rubaga Cathedral
The Bulange(Buganda parliament) viewed from the Kings Palace
The Bulange
it looked quite new and clean then
The source of the nile long before Owen Falls Dam was built....
The new Road to Fort Portal(from kampala to fort portal thru Mbra)
Owen Falls Dam being constructed
The famous Bujagali falls
Jinja Road through Mabira Forest
The Imperial Hotel now Grand Imperial Hotel :-)
Jubilee Park which is now Sheraton Gardens and location of the independence monument
The Imperial Hotel Shopping Arcade which still exists today and is opposite the central bank
Speke Hotel now owned by Sudhir Ruparelia on Shimoni Road..who knew that now it wud be filled wit escorts..
The Silver Springs Hotel was the only hotel in Kampala to boast a swimming pool
The Apollo Hotel under construction (above) - on the site of the flats shown below
Police Headquarters
Kampala Road
Drapers house now Crane Building
Entebbe
The Lake Victoria Hotel was usually referred to simply as the Lake Vic
A later view of Kampala after Independence. Entebbe Road runs diagonally from the bottom of the picture to its junction with City Road between Motor Mart and Barclays Bank. The large tower (top centre) is the Apollo Hotel(Sheraton Hotel) which dwarfs the Speke Hotel in front of it
Roman Catholic Rubaga Cathedral
The Bulange(Buganda parliament) viewed from the Kings Palace
The Bulange
it looked quite new and clean thenThe source of the nile long before Owen Falls Dam was built....
The new Road to Fort Portal(from kampala to fort portal thru Mbra)
Owen Falls Dam being constructed
The famous Bujagali falls
Jinja Road through Mabira Forest
The Imperial Hotel now Grand Imperial Hotel :-)
Jubilee Park which is now Sheraton Gardens and location of the independence monument
The Imperial Hotel Shopping Arcade which still exists today and is opposite the central bank
Speke Hotel now owned by Sudhir Ruparelia on Shimoni Road..who knew that now it wud be filled wit escorts..
The Silver Springs Hotel was the only hotel in Kampala to boast a swimming pool
The Apollo Hotel under construction (above) - on the site of the flats shown below
Police Headquarters
Kampala Road
Drapers house now Crane Building
Entebbe
The Lake Victoria Hotel was usually referred to simply as the Lake Vic
2 comments:
Thank you for the wonderful pictures. My wife and I spent a week in Kampala while passing through as backpackers in 1976 (Yes, it was the days of Idi Amin, and things were pretty hard.) We ate dinner every evening at the wonderful Speke Hotel.
we thought that you might like to see www.facbook.com/HIPUganda
We would also like to be in touch is you would like to share (as high res as possible) digital files of these photo's
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