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foreman at the time of the building of the railway who was renowned for his strength. Originally there was a simple grave at the site, but after travellers attributed their safe journeys to visiting the grave, a mosque was built.
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Between 1947 and 1950 Mackinnon Road was the site of a large British engineering and Ordnance Depot designed to hold 200,000 tons of military stores. The British had anticipated the loss of military bases in
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due to a rise in nationalism in that country and decided to create another base that was able to serve their military needs in the western
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and the railway in 1896 by the British colonial administration. The road fell into disuse as the railway overtook it.
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It has a station on the railway between Mombasa and Nairobi and was probably named because it was a junction of the
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WHY TRAINS SLOW DOWN AT MACKINNON ROAD, from interviews with late Ikram Hassan, Mombasa accessed at
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90 km (56 mi) outside Mombasa. Construction of the road was started in 1890 by
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Africa digest, Volume 4, 1956, by Africa Bureau (London, England) ISSN 0001-9798
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http://www.esikhs.com/articles/sikh_heritage_in_east_africa_01.htm
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A history of the King's African Rifles and East African forces,
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aircraft in case of attack by the aircraft carriers of the
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airfield was established at Mackinnon Road after the
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Index

Kwale County
Kenya
Mombasa
Voi
Taru

Grumman Martlet
World War II
Fleet Air Arm
British Eastern Fleet
Indian Ocean raid
Port Reitz Airport
carrier
Imperial Japanese Navy
Royal Navy
Swahili language
goshawk
Egypt
Indian Ocean
Mau Mau
Mackinnon Road Airport
Uganda Railway
Mackinnon ox cart road
George Wilson
British East Africa Company
Scottish Industrial mission
mosque
Seyyid
Punjabi
Mackinnon-Sclater road

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