Kenneth Wilfred Nunn

Notes:

Rufus was a despatch rider on motorcycles during the Second World War in France, and also did service in the Burma. Rufus used to farm in Ol Kalou, Kenya, and then on the Aberdare ridge, and was a 'customer' of Heywood and Winkie Tanner-Tremaine, who ran a motor garage business in Ol Joro Orok and Thomson's Falls in Kenya. Rufus and Joy left Kenya in 1964, and went to Ixopo in Natal South Africa, and ran The Offsaddle Inn for a few years. They then moved to Anerley on the Natal South coast, where Rufus was a deep-sea commercial fisherman, worked for the local Post Office, was a Town Councillor, etc.

Rufus was a bit of an 'expert' in raising pigs. Quoted in the Bury Free Press 30 September 1955 "
FOOD TO FLESH
High prices have been paid for these animals when sold either in a group of three gilts and one boar, as at Peterborough in 1953 or as single animals: the records price was 3,300 guineas. The conversion ratio of food to flesh is very much in favour of the Landrace pig.
A herd of Landrace pigs was formed recently with hte idea of replacing the original commercial Essex herd formed by Mr K W Nunn, of High Trees Farm, Naughton. The Essex herd was originally crossed with a good Large White boar, but this was not producing the kind of pig wanted by the British housewife for bacon. Now Mr Nunn has with him Mr M D Egerton, and they are carrying out their replacement programme scientifically and with great care, selecting the breeding stock on merit of pedigree and performance.
WHAT LENGTH!
The senior stock boar ( Hjalmerod Erot, sold at the 1953 importation sales at Peterborough with three gilts for 2,500 guineas ) measured six feet ten inches from the tip of his snout to the root of the tail. The junior boar, a nephew of Hjalmerod Erot shows fineness of shoulder and a good length of back.
Mr Nunn and Mr Egerton agree that itis only breeding to and crossing definite bolld lines, that it is possible to breed the type of pig, which as bacon, the public wants."



from https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/landmark-hotel-burns-to-ground-432160
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Landmark hotel burns to ground
SOUTH AFRICA / 23 JANUARY 2009, 07:43AM /
By Jeff Wicks

One of KwaZulu-Natal's oldest lodges, the Off Saddle Hotel in Ixopo, burnt down on Thursday afternoon.

The hotel, which was built in 1878, was a landmark on the tourism trail and still bore its original name.

Police Captain Vincent Pandarum said the fire was thought to have started in the hotel's kitchen soon after 1pm.


The owner and his wife noticed smoke billowing from the kitchen.

They desperately tried to extinguish the flames themselves then contacted the Ixopo fire brigade.

Pandarum said all of the guests were evacuated and no injuries were reported.

"All the people staying in the hotel managed to rush from their rooms and got out unscathed. When the firefighters finally put out the fire, 90 percent of the hotel was destroyed," he said.

Pandarum said that no police docket had been opened on Thursday.

"At this stage we are still trying to establish exactly what happened. If necessary, a docket of arson will be opened, otherwise it will remain an inquiry."

An Ixopo resident said she had seen smoke while shopping at the other end of town.

"We had been at the hardware shop when we noticed the smoke. We quickly drove to the hotel and found it on fire."

"There is a bottle store attached to the hotel building and people were rushing in and out trying to save bottles of liquor.

"The owners of the hotel and staff had removed furniture from the burning building and placed it in the street. We watched as a woman ran up and stole a TV, running away with it down the street."

She said it took firefighters nearly four hours to put out the blaze.

"All that is left of the hotel is a burnt-out shell. There is no roof left and it's basically just rubble.

"This is the third time in recent years that the hotel has caught fire."

Kenneth married Victoria Joy Hobbs between Jul 1939 and Sep 1939 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Victoria (daughter of Harold Victor Hobbs and Victoria Mary Ann Rowland) was born on 7 Sep 1914; died in 1975 in Anerley, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kenneth married Susie-Bell Aylward on 9 Dec 1977 in Port St Johns, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Susie-Bell (daughter of Stuart Aylward and Vera Ferris Bowker) was born on 6 Feb 1915 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 23 Nov 2008 in Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]