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Captain Chris Hall: the need for water pumps

From the WaterforAll website Chris Hall, a Virgin Atlantic Airlines captain, tells the story of his international effort to organise and lead a hike of Mt. Fuji to raise funds for water pumps installed in Kenya by Water For All. As a captain for Virgin Atlantic Airlines, I fly over a lot of water. Even from thirty thousand feet, when all I could see from the cockpit are clouds and the water down below, I have thought about all the people in the world who suffer from a lack of clean drinking water. I grew up in Kenya, Tanzania and India, so in addition to experiencing the joys of different cultures and people as a child and as a pilot, I have also witnessed abject poverty on every continent. Thankfully, a group named Water For All is making it easy for people like me to do our part to improve access to clean water in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is a good first step in helping to ease poverty as well. Imagine our delight when Jill Rademacher, P

Arthur Lewis Hall with Gertrude Sultan (nee Hall) and son in Clifton

Connie Hall with Nurse in 1903 Pretoria

Dad, Anne and Grandchildren 1990s

Andy Yuca and Chris, Nairobi 1974

Mom, Eve Hall, with Dad and a colleague outside a coffee house in Addis

The Four Hall brothers

Mike, David, Tony, John

Granny Greenfingers, Lisa Steinhardt

Granny's garden in Bramley  Granny was always famous for her green fingers. Everything she did, she did almost to perfection. She did it with focus and understanding. She was driven. When she got to South Africa, after being a general administrator at a hospital and surviving the war with her daughter she was relegated to cooking for all the guests that came to their large house in Bramley and looking after the big garden. And the garden looked spectacular. All the plants so healthy. Blooming. When I was born she looked after me too and I am sure that I thrived, just as her plants thrived and my mother thrived. And when in the 60s and 70s they moved to small flats in Paris and Munich and Majorca and then Golfe Juan all her terraces were glorious with flowers and fruit. We remember her little lemon tree in a pot in Golfe Juan. Every year it would produce a big box full of lemons. Granny's and her lemon tree, in Golfe Juan In contrast my mother was sure that she did not hav

Burgenstadt Schlitz, Hessen

Postcard by HWC The German side of our family comes from this town. Renata and Ruth say that nothing happened in Schlitz during the war, hardly even a plane flew overhead.

Eve Hall at Kingsmead 1946

Mom is the girl at the bottom, second from the left. Death announced in the Old Kingsmeadians Association two months ago

Tony Hall, Dad as the star of Iolanthe at Pretoria Boys High

Mom annoyed at Grandpa, Majorca 1967

Andy and Phil, Dar-es-Salaam, 1972

Eve Hall at 17

Arthur, ?, John, Betty, Rosalie, David Hall around 1938

Mom, Granny, Eve Hall at her wedding on February 7th, 1959

On the Attersee in July 1972

Tony Hall and colleagues at the Voice of Kenya, VOK, Nairobi 1964

Photo by John A. D'Souza

Chris and Andy Hall, Paris, 1969

Meudon-la-Foret, Richard and Lisa Steinhardt 1969

Dinghy on the Thames 1971

Little Eve, Paris, 1939

Eve and Tony Hall at The Nation in Nairobi, 1965

Phil at Woodley Nursery School Nairobi November 1965

Mom, Granny, Eve Hall in Somalia on her own in 1981

Uncle Mike Hall, Johannesburg 1994

Visiting auntie Flora Steinhardt in 1972 Johannesburg

Phil on horseback

The Abbey Meadows, February 1970

Recently arrived in the UK, Kings Cross, 1968

MA Modern English Language classmates, 1990

Standard Flats, Tanzania, 1971

Boat ride through the Jardin des Tuileries, 1966

Spread Eagle Hotel, Kenya 1969

Phil Hall and Farid El Zaki, 1968, Nairobi

Family at the beach in Somalia 1982

Chris took the pictures

Tony and Eve in Somalia at the beach 1982

 

Nick Kimalel Sunil Khilnani Philip Hall 1976

Tony Hall's Peugeot 504 dream

Elysian Fields, Tony, Eve, Lisa and the Peugeot at picnic by the fig tree  in Little  Serengeti The Peugeot 504 is a legend in Africa. The first models were produced in France in 1968. The same 504 is still coming brand new off production lines in Kenya and Nigeria 38 years later. This is the largest production run of any car, under its own name,* in history. The sedan has won many victories and top places in African motor rallies, from the Paris-Dakar to the East African Safari. The 504 station wagon/estate, the model displayed here, has a heroic and colourful history as a taxi, in and between cities, all over Africa.** For more than four decades, the 504 and its predecessor, the 404, have been part of the magic of East Africa. The sight of them bombing along miles of straight road and winding up and down passes has been so much part of the breathtaking scenery. They have done the epic runs, some of the world’s loveliest and most exciting, from Nairob

British School New Delhi, Sports Day 1976