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“Mr Cobb, our faithful engineer, on the lorry going off with a load of timber to build an outschool. (Mr Cobb left 1928 to join a sisal estate.)” Exterior view of a man sitting behind the wheel of a Morris truck. Mr G.C. Cobb was a freelance artisan who was employed by the mission to run the workshops and provide training to the local young men. He worked at Chogoria from 1924 to 1928 before leaving to join the Church Mission Society [CMS]. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
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