The Nyasaland Paradise Dream Of Sir Geoffrey Colby

 The Nyasaland Paradise Dream Of Sir Geoffrey Colby

Sir Geoffrey Colby was so dedicated to develop Cape Maclear into a major City on Lake Malawi.
When Cape Maclear Hotel was built in 1949, Colby persuaded the General Manager of the Nyasaland Hotels and Breweries, F. H. X. Gwynne to ensure accommodation of 44 BOAC plane passengers which was to fly directly from Britain to Cape Maclear twice every week.
Colby had convinced the British govt to stop the flights to Victoria Falls in Rhodesia and commerce the flight to the 'paradise' in his reference to Cape Maclear.
Colby's Nyasaland paradise was granted by the British govt when he and lady Colby flew directly from Southampton in England to Cape Maclear on 7 October I949.
There used to be 2 flights a week direct from England to Cape Maclear and others to Victoria Falls and Vaaldam Johannesburg
The service was discontinued in October 1950
In the picture Cape Maclear Hotel in 1950

1949, Geoffrey Colby brought planes which landed on Lake Malawi, Cape Maclear.


When Colby opened flights from England to Lake Malawi, he flew with the plane directly from Southampton in England to Cape Maclear on 7 October I949.

The youth in Malawi presenting a gift to Geoffrey Colby in 1956 before he left Malawi.







Location: Blantyre, Malawi

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