To add to this site:  the country: a gallery of pictures of the Copperbelt,  the game parks, Lake Tanganyika, Kariba, Kitwe:  Bamfords bakery, ZOK and CBC, open pit, underground mining, more photos of people, the clubs .....please send stuff!
 

The Money

 Kitwe (map complements of Lindsay Short)

Click on a section of the map to see an enlarged (about 2.5Mb) view

The people:

The NCCM Computer department was based in Mutondo house in Kitwe.  Early in 1973 the staff included Mick Baggott, Joe Connelly, Cyril Harding, Bob Lewis (Bob and his wife Mary lived in Maxwell street), Jenny Chapman, Terry O'Sullivan, Les Porteous, Brian Adam, Brian Winder, Dave Male, Lyn Lloyd, John Lovegrove, Ian King, Pete Greaves, John Croston, secretary Shirley (???), Bwana Mkubwa Tim McGovern, Alan Lintott, Dave Page, Alan Humphries, Vince Hopkins (who always knew how many days/hours/minutes he had left on his contract) Wilkie Kunda, Barry Middleton, Hilary Jensen and Avril Sherrat (see photo), Reg Garrido, Bob Harle, Richard Mulenga and Dave Sullivan.  Phil Ord was there too - in another building - and .....
some non-computer people:  Adrian and Heather Knights, Martin and Christine Steen, Mike and Pauline Lee (see photo - Mick and Pauline lived opposite Bob and Rosemary Harle and next door to Bob and Mary Lewis), Nick and Lindsay Short

The author in 1973                                             Avril and Hilary:                                                       Mick and Pauline
(1090 days of his contract to go)
 

The Social Life:

Television in Zambia was Very Bad, so people made their own entertainment.  Folk music, as everywhere, was an excuse to drink a lot. But there was good music to listen to while you were drinking.  There was "Fie Man Fie" featuring Sheila Culf, "Trilogy" with Bob Harle, Jeannette Nelson and Geoff Foard.  There was Mike Glover (manager of the Piano House, who introduced Kitwe audiences to "American Pie"), Ian and Vickie ...

There was a Trad Jazz band - The 1888 Blue Jug Band with Adrian Nash, Dave and Louise Page, Alan Rickets and others .....

Another the popular social activity amongst expatriates in Zambia was amateur theatre.  Nkana Kitwe Arts Society (NKAS, or Kitwe Little Theatre) was one of the many active theatre clubs in the country.  It had a swimming pool (pictured below, with Rosie and Steve Harle, Mandy Povey and Pauline and Nicola Lee), a bar that did great toasted sandwiches and a group of talented actors and directors who staged many memorable productions, among them   Vamp  in 1974 and Fiddler on the Roof in 1972.