Once Called Home Making a Fast Buck by Ox Wagon Gervas Hughes’ ox wagon inward bound with a load of firewood on the Gokwe Road, 1929. N.B. Gervas’ brand GK3 and the Rhodesian yoke Making a Fast Buck by Ox Wagon For the third time in seven years Gervas Hughes arrived back in Que Que in 1928 having recovered
Once Called Home Milking a Recovery Dorothy Crowther-Smith (far L) and Gervas Hughes (far R) baling hay at her farm in Bordon, Hampshire during his recovery from polio. (N.B. Gervas’ withered R arm and shoulder) Milking a Recovery After a month at the two-bed G&P Mine dispensery in Que Que under the care
Once Called Home The Lure of Africa A bogged wagon on Que Que’s early roads. The Lure of Africa Before the Great War, as a schoolboy in Llanbedr, near Crickhowell in a remote Welsh valley, Gervas Hughes collected double headed stamps from the Globe and Phoenix MIne sent by his half-brother Tom (Reginald). At university his
Once Called Home Hughes Milk In 1936 G.W. Hughes of Greenham Farm, 13 miles west of Que Que, home delivered milk by bicycle Hughes Milk Gervas Wylde Hughes, came from a remote Welsh Valley and arrived in Que Que to stay with his broher on the Globe and Phoenix Mine in 1921 at the
