Sports Days

Tony Chetham seems to have an inexhaustible supply of mementoes of MEPS sporting events dated back to the 1950s and 60s. This is a report from the Mombasa Times on the 1950 Sports Day which raised the princely sum of just over 173 shillings for the EASPCA, the local equivalent of our RSPCA.

One spectator at the event was a Mrs Katherine Bibby who was so taken with it that she wrote to the head, Mrs Foat, congratulating her on "the excellence discipline displayed by the children, and the splendid organisation of the whole proceeding."

The date of this picture isn't certain but it shows Mike Chetham announcing the results while....

....this clipping from the Mombasa Times is of the sports in September 1957. The results were Livingstone 103, Wavell 82, Mackinnon, 78. This was Livingstone's first cup win. Martin Wilson and Susan Cottenham received the Cup from Provincial Education Officer A V Hatfield.

MEPS pupils travelled to Arusha to take part in a swimming gala in 1962.

All clippings courtesy Tony Chetham.