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| Front of the Postcard, Umtata Club |
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| A Postcard from Nanny Ina's father William Phillips. |
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| William Henry Boothby Phillips, Nanny Ina's father |
This faded photo turns out to be a Post Card sent on the 3 August 1910, from the Umtata Club by Nanny Ina's father, William Phillips.
He does not write much, just 'Dear Ina, Do you know this place? it is the Club. I am standing at the gate.'
We do not know much about Nanny Ina's father beyond the page of photos Mom has in the Wedderburn Book.
No birth or death dates. His father was Major CR Phillips.
There is something wonderful about the photo of the card players at the Umtata Club with William in his formal striped smoking jacket.
Fred and I drove through Umtata just before Christmas and this is truly a bygone era.
Umtata is no longer genteel, it is a bustling, vibrant, noisy African retail centre and totally chaotic with traffic congestion, chickens, goats, cattle and the pavements overflowing with goods and people.
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| A photo from the Umtata Club in the Wedderburn Book that Mom put together |
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