Baker, Ernest George
Introduction
Ernest George Baker
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
(a) People
(b) Railways
(c) Places including Khartoum and Omdurman
2. Newspaper cuttings
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Baker, Ernest George
Dates of creation: 1912-1926
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Baker, Ernest George
Language: English

Ernest George Baker

(1883 - 1982)

1912-1933 Signals section, Engineering Department, Sudan Government Railways
1920-1923 Inspector of Signals, Atbara


Arrangement

1. Photographic material
2. Newspaper cuttings

Accession details

Presented by Baker, 1966

Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
(a) People
SAD.491/7/1
1912
Atbara football club with Mr and Mrs Gloria Ensor (Loco), Gaiger (chief clerk, HQ), Gay (Steamers), Baker (Signals), Williams, Quick, Merrill, Stew, Winterson, Cornet, Robson and Sykes (all Loco), Allsopp (T & T), Whitfield (Engineering), Mitchell, Ferguson (HQ), Rowland (PW)
SAD.491/7/2
1914-1915
Atbara football team for Railway Department, including Bright, Merrill, Denson, Ensor (all Loco), Walker (P & T), MacReand, Baker and Hollinsworth (all Engineering), Green (HQ), Tilly (HQ), Stainton (Weights and Measures)
SAD.491/7/3
Jabal Barkal, near Kareima, European man sitting on temple wall
SAD.491/7/4
J.H.G. Mitchell (P.A. to General Manager, H.G. Emley) with young boy
(b) Railways
SAD.491/6/1
1925 Jan 7
Khartoum, railway from north side of roadway barriers, taken by Andrews
SAD.491/6/2
1925 Jan 7
Khartoum, railway from the north west, roadway barriers
SAD.491/6/3
1925 Jan 7
Khartoum, railway from the east, roadway barriers
SAD.491/6/4
1925 Jan 7
Khartoum, ground frame for operating roadway barriers, with two European men standing (one possibly Baker), taken by Andrews
SAD.491/6/5
Atbara signal box
SAD.491/6/6-7
Atbara engineering workshops
SAD.491/6/8
Atbara bridge over Atbara river
SAD.491/6/9
Shediyeb bridge, kilo 542
SAD.491/6/10
Shediyeb bridge, kilo 554, with Baker's motor trolley at end of bridge extension
SAD.491/6/11
Shediyeb bridge, kilo 557
SAD.491/6/12
Erba bridge, kilo 691
SAD.491/6/13
Erba bridge, kilo 694
SAD.491/6/14
Kamobsana bridge, kilo 717, over khor
SAD.491/6/15
Near Obo station. Kilo 741 in Red Sea Hills, bridge under construction across khor
SAD.491/6/16
Port Sudan line, bridge at kilo 746
SAD.491/6/17
Sallom, kilo 762 bridge
SAD.491/6/18
Sallom, kilo 766 bridge, junction to Suakin
SAD.491/6/19
Suakin line, kilo 30 bridge
SAD.491/6/20
Suakin line, kilo 38 bridge
SAD.491/6/21
Khor Mog bridge, 5 kilometres from Port Sudan
SAD.491/6/22
Gebeit, senior officer's bungalow
SAD.491/6/23
Erba, looking east along railway line in Red Sea Hills
SAD.491/6/24
Kamobsana, looking east along railway line, next station to Obo, in Red Sea Hills
SAD.491/6/25
Port Sudan, new south quays, coal transporters and cranes
SAD.491/6/26
Port Sudan, entrance to town station, Red Sea Hills in the distance, looking west
SAD.491/6/27-28
Port Sudan, divers near quay wall
SAD.491/6/29
Port Sudan, outer bay
SAD.491/6/30
Erkowit resthouse
SAD.491/6/31
Gorashi signal box at a station for the new cotton area
SAD.491/6/32-33
Meringau cotton centre, Wad Medani in distance along railway
SAD.491/6/34
Desert crossing station
SAD.491/6/35
Line repairs after derailment with Dicken and Baker in background
(c) Places including Khartoum and Omdurman
SAD.491/7/5-6
Khartoum, approaching habub
SAD.491/7/7
Khartoum cathedral, interior (V.S.)
SAD.491/7/8
Khartoum, General Gordon's statue, Shulham, Dickins and Baker in front
SAD.491/7/9
Khartoum, the Gordon statue (G.N.M.87)
SAD.491/7/10
Khartoum, Kitchener's statue (G.N.M.199)
SAD.491/7/11
Khartoum, the Gordon College (V.S.)
SAD.491/7/12
Khartoum, Kitchener School of Medicine (G.N.M.210)
SAD.491/7/13
Khartoum, the Palace (V.S)
SAD.491/7/14
Khartoum, General Post Office, (G.N.M.247)
SAD.491/7/15
Khartoum central station, Britisher's bungalow
SAD.491/7/16-17
Khartoum central station (V.S. and G.N.M.233)
SAD.491/7/18-19
Khartoum, [Blue Nile] Bridge, (V.S. and G.N.M.158)
SAD.491/7/20
Locusts, outside Khartoum
SAD.491/7/21-22
Saqia on the Nile (G.N.M.216)
SAD.491/7/23-24
Omdurman bridge (G.N.M.149)
SAD.491/7/25
General Sir Herbert Jackson, Sir Sayyid al-Mirghani, Sharif Yusuf al-Hindi, Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, the Grand Mufti of the Sudan and other notables (V.S.)
SAD.491/7/26
Shendi railway station, crowds with religious flags (V.S.)
SAD.491/7/27
Shendi Maulid procession (V.S.)
SAD.491/7/28
Port Sudan harbour (G.N.M.236)
SAD.491/7/29
Suakin from the harbour (G.N.M.118)
SAD.491/7/30
Malakal, Upper Nile (G.N.M.103)
SAD.491/7/31
Upper Nile, tukl (G.N.M.423)
SAD.491/7/32
Shot hippo with local men tasting its milk
SAD.491/7/33
Nile, reed boat (ambatch) (G.N.M.421)
SAD.491/7/34
Abu Simbel (G.N.M.177)
SAD.491/8/1
Omdurman, Khalifa's House Museum and mosque square (K.H.M.171/3)
SAD.491/8/2-3,5
Omdurman, khalifa's house (G.N.M.300, K.H.M.167/9 and 166/3)
SAD.491/8/4, 6-7, 10
Omdurman, khalifa's house, with man in Ansar jibbah, (K.H.M.166/12, 168/2, 168/5 and 169/10)
SAD.491/8/8
Omdurman, khalifa's house, coin presses and cartridge machines (K.H.M.169/3)
SAD.491/8/9
Omdurman, khalifa's house, dervish uniforms (K.H.M.169/4)
SAD.491/8/11
Omdurman, carriage used by the khalifa (K.H.M.171/11)
SAD.491/8/12
Omdurman, khalifa's house and Mahdi's tomb [before it was rebuilt] (K.H.M.169/9)
SAD.491/8/13
Omdurman, ruins of Mahdi's tomb (K.H.M. 166/7)
SAD.491/8/14-28
[early 1920's]
Sennar dam under construction
2. Newspaper cuttings
SAD.491/8/29
1926 Jan 9
“Opening of Sennar Dam”. From the Sudan Herald