Old Africa 5 - Beadoc by Tim Hutchinson - Arthur Hutchinson who came to Kenya with his wife Madge in 1919. He had planted maize instead of flax. The Hutchinson Tunnel farm, right near the only tunnel on the original Uganda Railway line, remained profitable with maize, and they began planting coffee as well. ………

Two weeks before Tim Hutchinson's mother was due to give birth to him, she fell off a donkey and broke her ankle. She went to stay with Sister Archibald, the district nurse in Londiani. Tim was born there in 1930, the same year a locust plague finished the Hutchinson's maize crop. The locusts returned in 1931 devastating another harvest. Despite having to leave his new found cricket enthusiasts who introduced cricket to that area of Kenya, Arthur Hutchinson left the coffee to be tended by a manager and took his family back to England. The manager sent the coffee to England where Hutchinson flogged it in Yorkshire before returning to Kenya in 1946. Tim returned to Africa in 1948 to help on the farm. His father died soon after and Tim took over running the farm in 1950

Nairobi City Park cemetery - Arthur Heap Hutchinson, died 16 Nov 1950 aged 56, buried at Kipkelion, also baby daughter. His wife is buried in Westow, N. Yorks.

Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. A.H. Hutchinson, Elloughton Rise, Brough, E. Yorks - Farm 465

Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major W.H.H. Hutchinson, Junr., Elloughton Rise, Brough, E. Yorks - Farm 1443 - Representative, A.H. Hutchinson, c/o Jorrwet Ltd., Kericho

Hut - 1919 - BEADOC Kapkorech 3 months and then to Tunnel Farm, Fort Ternan. The only member of BEADOC to keep land allocated until he died 1919-1950; 1931-45 Winestead then to Preston Hull; 1939-45 Home Guard, Anti Aircraft Rockets Hedon; AHH Coffee & Tea Co., Pig Venture; Roasting, Grinding, Marketing coffee grown on Tunnel; also marketed tea; Cricket Yorkshire Gents and Londiani; 1945-50 Firby Hall Kirkham Abbey Nr Malton; 1945 returned to Tunnel 2200 acres, 52 acres coffee, 500 dairybeef cattle, 100 pigs, 50 acres maize; Kenya Kongoni cricket club; "Maharajah of Couch Galore" (John Wilson)

Hut - After 3 months living in a tent on Kapkorech, while waiting for his allocation, he started at Fort Ternan in 1919, but soon ran out of capital. He therefore turned the farm into a Company, and Wyndham came to his rescue with extra capital. Because the one and only tunnel on the Uganda Railway (180 yards) was situated in the middle of the farm he named the enterprise Tunnel Co. Ltd. Fort Ternan was too far from the Flax Factory at Kericho for him to have been able to grow flax. Instead maize was grown, and a herd of zebu cattle started. Later, in 1924 the first coffee was planted. The original allocation was LR 7063 and LR 6087, but the latter fell away almost down to Fort Ternan station. Very sensibly he sold LR 6087 and purchased LR 3111 which was on the same level as LR 7063. For the first 3 months Arthur and Madge camped in the godown at the original Tunnel station. Luckily half the roof was on the new house by the time the Railway Authorities declared that they could no longer do this. However, due to locusts demolishing everything two years running 1929-30 he returned to Hull, Yorkshire and marketed the coffee that was grown for him by the manager Bill Mulloch. He returned to the farm after the war in 1946 and died in 1950. His youngest son, Tim then took over the management of Tunnel Estate at the age of 20. His second son Roger took over the coffee marketing business in Yorkshire. Later he moved this enterprise to Horsham, Sussex.

Joelson - 1928 - Fort Ternan - a keen soldier settler.

Hut - KAR BEADOC Tunnel, 1919 Oundle UK 31-4

St Paul's Kipkelion - plaque to Arthur and baby Phyllis