In 1933 he looked about 40 and had a most engaging manner and smile. He had a very good tenor voice.

Frampton - Tom didn't pass the medical so was not called up for WW2 and was over age anyway. ..... at the beginning of 1939 he bought another farm higher up at the edge of Bahati forest to grow pyrethrum. Tom and a neighbour, Short Eames, stocked the river with rainbow trout.

Playne - Pastoralists' Association (Nakuru) - The idea of this association was first mooted by Messrs S. McCall and R. Chamberlain, and at a meeting a few days later the association was formed after a joint conference between them and Mr A.S. Flemmer. At a general meeting held at Nakuru on May 22, 1906, a constitution was agreed to, and Mr Flemmer was elected President and Mr Banks Secreatry and Treasurer.  At the annual meeting in 1907 Mr Chamberlain was elected President; Messrs S. McCall and Flemmer Vice-Presidents, while Mr Banks was re-elected as Secretary and Treasurer. At the annual meeting in 1908 Dr. Atkinson was elected President, Messrs S. McCall and F. Watkins Vice-Presidents, and Mr P.G. Throne Secretary and Treasurer, vice Mr Banks, resigned.

Nakuru North cemetery - Thomas Moffat Banks - born 7/12/1883, Kendal, died Jun 1944

Frampton: Banks estate was a coffee farm near Solai. On our coffee plantation we also grew maize and wheat and had a herd of native cattle crossed with a Guernsey bull. There was a permanent labour force of 120 men plus their families. They lived in a camp below us and two men were employed to keep it clean and tidy. Our water supply to the house came from Crater stream and was no more than a trickle which we shared with the testy tempered neighbour, Chas Cranswick. In the dry weather the stream shrank to almost nothing and often nothing came down the pipe at all because our neighbour had shut off our half of the division tank by stuffing a sack over our pipe hole. We lived at an altitude of 6000 feet right on the Equator at the head of a most beautiful valley. The climate was similar to that of the Mediterranean and we grew both European and tropical fruit and flowers in abundance.

At the beginning of 1939 we bought another house at a higher altitude to grow pyrethrum. It was virgin land at the edge of the lovely Bahati forest. Tom designed and built a pyrethrum dryer and we installed 4 Jaluo families on the 70 acres of land to look after it and plant the pyrethrum daisies by hand. Tom went up there every two days or so. Sacks of dried pyrethrum flowers was sent down to Nakuru for processing to be made into the basic ingredient for the insecticide Flit and other disinfectants much in demand during the war.