East Africa & Rhodesia - 24/1/57 - Mr P.J.H. Coldham has celebrated in Kenya his 75th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his arrival in the Colony

Kiambu Scrapbook - The usual type of farm house, after the grass hut stage, was of wood and iron on the same pattern as many Nairobi houses of that date. Perhaps the largest was Mr Philip Coldham's, built in 1912 by a Nairobi contractor, a Mr Smart. It is still standing and has not been greatly altered over the years. It measures 5,000 square feet (100ft. X 50) which was large for those days, though it only cost £600 to build! When Archdeacon Low, then Kiambu's Chaplain, first saw it, he described it as a "railway station in a wilderness".

Kiambu Scrapbook - 1924 - The Kiambu Club - Philip Coldham supervised the building of a wood and iron club house with four rooms and a verandah, and the Club came to be used for other forms of sport.

Kiambu Scrapbook - A South African, Mr Victor Dunman, had bought a 640 acre farm in this area known as Dururumu, which he later increased to 1000 acres. Mr Philip Coldham arrived in Kiambu in 1910, looking for land in this area, and bought the higher part of Dururuma from Mr Dunman, which spread across two ridges on the borders of the Kiambu Reserve. This he christened Anmer, after a Norfolk village which had been his home in England, and planted a considerable area on one of the ridges from seedlings discovered under the trees of a neglected patch of coffee planted long before by Mr Dunman. It is said that Mrs Coldham collected most of the seedlings with her own hands! Later, in partnership with Mr George Bentley, he planted the second ridge, which after the first War was taken over entirely by Mr Bentley who called it Kabazi.

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Kiambu - P.J.H. Coldham, Anmer, Kiambu

Wolseley-Lewis - 1930s - "Luckily I heard that Philip Coldham, ex Navy, wanted an assistant for his manager, to help him pick a big crop of coffee. Philip Coldham owned Anmer, which was considered to be about the top coffee plantation in Kenya. It was very temporary, but I was lucky to get the job and glad to be back in coffee. I lived with the Coldhams, who could not have been nicer to me. ……..I was only on Anmer for 3 months …… Coldham gave me a good reference. …."

St. Paul's Church, Kiambu cemetery - Mary Ellen Coldham born 6th March 1876, died 13th April 1961 and Phillip John Hamilton Coldham, born 19th November 1881, died 10th January 1968

Red Book 1912 - P.J.H. Coldham - Kyambu

Gazette 12/5/1919 - Dissolution of partnership between P.J.H. Coldham and G.H. Bentley carrying on business at Kyambu under the style or form of 'Coldham and Bentley' dissolved as from 1/3/1919.

Obituary - East African Standard 6 Feb 1968, p.4

Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - Philip John Hamilton Coldham, Planter, Anmer, Kiambu and Mary Ellen Coldham, Anmer, Kiambu and Mary Charlotte Barson, Governess, Anmer, Kiambu

HBEA 1912 has P.M. Coldham.

Red 25 - Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Kiambu Sports Club.

Red 31 has P.G.H. Coldham, Kiambu

Gazette 4 July 1961 wife's probate

Gazette 26 Jan 1968 probate