Mackinnon Road
Mackinnon Road is a town in Kwale County, Kenya, with a population of around 8000 in 1999, located between Mombasa and Voi. Just a few kilometers from Taru.
History
In
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.[2] The British had anticipated the loss of military bases in Egypt 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 Indian Ocean. The plan was abandoned and the base became a detention camp for Mau Mau suspects until 1955.[3]
Transport
It has a station on the railway between Mombasa and Nairobi and was probably named because it was a junction of the
Main sights
There is a
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-7509-3937-9, by David W. Wragg, p239
- ISBN 0-85052-538-1, by Malcolm Page, p222
- ^ Africa digest, Volume 4, 1956, by Africa Bureau (London, England) ISSN 0001-9798
- ^ WHY TRAINS SLOW DOWN AT MACKINNON ROAD, from interviews with late Ikram Hassan, Mombasa accessed at http://www.esikhs.com/articles/sikh_heritage_in_east_africa_01.htm 19-Dec-2009