The Road to Rhodesia

Although we can not pin down the exact year that Vincent Brooks, Day & Son moved from Gate Street to Parker Street, both locations are very close to Kingsway's Africa House. It was here, perhaps after a visit to the family business, that Herbert Cecil Brooks saw an advertisement for the position of District Officer in what was then Rhodesia.



After a brief bureaucratic mix up Herbert was demobilised on 25th April 1919.
He was now free to enter the services of the British South Africa Company.