The roots of the first European school in Kenya, later to become - TopicsExpress



          

The roots of the first European school in Kenya, later to become the Prince of Wales then Nairobi School, are closely intertwined with those of the railway system in British East Africa. While the establishment of a European school in the embryonic East African territories was inevitable, the initial impetus came from the railways. They needed a school to educate the offspring of ex-patriates who had come out to build and operate the new railway line from Mombasa to Uganda. The 1987 Impala reports that in 1902 the Uganda Railway Authority established the European Nairobi School, located in the current grounds of the Nairobi Railway Club. In 1916 the school was moved to the hilly grounds of Protectorate Road, currently the Nairobi Primary School. Then, in 1925, at the urging of Lord Delamere and supported by the governor of Kenya, Sir Edward Grigg, planning was initiated for a new boys secondary school to be run on the lines of an English public school. The location chosen for the new school was on railway reserve ground near Kabete (ref 2002 Impala). Thus the Prince of Wales School came into being in 1931.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:34:34 +0000

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