W. Nicholls
Introduction
William Nicholls
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
2. Photographic Material
3. Newspaper Cuttings
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: W. Nicholls
Dates of creation: ca. 1926-1958
Extent: 1 file, 1 album
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: W. Nicholls
Language: English

William Nicholls

(1882-)

1907-1932Sudan Political Service
1907Khartoum
1908-1910Dongola
1911-1912Khartoum
1913-19162nd Inspector, El Obeid / Um Ruwaba, Kordofan
1917Um Keddada, Darfur
1917-1918Senior Inspector, Singa, Sennar Province
1919-1922Senior Inspector, El Fasher, Darfur
1922-1926Governor White Nile Province
1926-1932Governor Berber Province


Arrangement

1. Official Papers
2. Photographic Material
3. Newspaper Cuttings

Accession details

Presented by Countess Valerie Sollohob, 1992

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.759/13/1-2
1929 Feb
Petition to W. Nicholls [W.N.] from the inhabitants of Atbara markaz appealing against the seizure of land by the Railway
(28 seals and signatures, 1 stamped envelope)
2. Photographic Material
SAD.A87/1-213
[ca. 1926 - 1932]
Album of photographs of the Sudan and Egypt taken during W.N.'s governorship of Berber Province:
SAD.A87/1
Herd of elephants near Bor, 1930 (taken from an R.A.F. aeroplane)
SAD.A87/2,4-5
The governor's residence, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/3
W.N. and Mrs. Nicholls [E.N.] on board their steamer
SAD.A87/6-9
W.N. and E.N. on board ship, en route to the Sudan
SAD.A87/10
Baron de Pezzei, E.N. and H. Hawkins on the quayside at Port Sudan
SAD.A87/11
Port Sudan station
SAD.A87/12
Departure from Port Sudan station
SAD.A87/13
A desert station
SAD.A87/14-19
W.N. and E.N. in the garden of their home at Ed Damer
SAD.A87/20-21,23
W.N. and E.N. on horseback
SAD.A87/22
Domestic staff
SAD.A87/24
W.N. and E.N. after a morning ride
SAD.A87/25
E.N. on the verandah
SAD.A87/26,29
The garden at Ed Damer
SAD.A87/27
E.N. with dead crocodile
SAD.A87/28
Pet dog
SAD.A87/30-33
On board governor's yacht Candace including T. Creed, Mrs. Creed, N.M. Innes and E.A.V. de Candole
SAD.A87/34
The launch Belle
SAD.A87/35
W.N. and E.N. in garden
SAD.A87/36
Tennis court
SAD.A87/37
Convicts making bricks
SAD.A87/38
W.N. and E.N. in date garden on Nile north of Ed Damer
SAD.A87/39-48
King's Day celebrations at Ed Damer
SAD.A87/41,45
Arab chiefs
SAD.A87/42
Group including W.N., E.N. and A.C. Parker
SAD.A87/43
March past of boy scouts before the governor
SAD.A87/46
Police in camel race
SAD.A87/47-48
W.N. presenting robes of honour
SAD.A87/49
Sack fighting on greasy pole, Ed Damer sports
SAD.A87/50
Outskirts of Ed Damer
SAD.A87/51
W.N. inspecting guard of honour
SAD.A87/52
Guard of honour and arch of welcome on arrival at Shendi, 1926
SAD.A87/53
Arab chiefs at Ed Dueim, White Nile Province
SAD.A87/54
Bisharin in camel market, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/55,57
W.N. on horseback
SAD.A87/56
Governor's dhahabiyyah on the Nile
SAD.A87/58
General Stuart-Wortley at Metemma
SAD.A87/59
Mudiriyyah at Ed Damer
SAD.A87/60
Ed Damer street
SAD.A87/61
Notable's house, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/62
Man on donkey back going to market
SAD.A87/63,65
W.N. and E.N. with Shaykh al-Zubayr Musaid at Aliab, 1929
SAD.A87/64
W.N. on Nile bank
SAD.A87/66
Water carrier, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/67
Lord and Lady Lloyd at the Governor-General's palace
SAD.A87/68-70
Shooting party at Zeidab
SAD.A87/71-73
Polo at Ed Damer
SAD.A87/74
W.N., E.N. and Mr. and Mrs. Fawkes at Atbara
SAD.A87/75,77
Evening prayer by the Nile
SAD.A87/76
River scene near Khartoum
SAD.A87/78
The War Office and Kitchener statue, Khartoum
SAD.A87/79
Grand Hotel, Khartoum
SAD.A87/80
Nile embankment, Khartoum
SAD.A87/81
National Bank, Khartoum
SAD.A87/82
Nile erosion - date palm about to topple into the river
SAD.A87/83
Swimming pool at the Sudan Club
SAD.A87/84
“Irrigation House”, Khartoum
SAD.A87/85
Pupils lined up before Gordon College
SAD.A87/86
Public Works Department offices, Khartoum
SAD.A87/87
Gazelle in Khartoum zoo
SAD.A87/88
Boy on saqiyah
SAD.A87/89
A Khartoum garden
SAD.A87/90-92
E.N. at the temples of Naqa
SAD.A87/93
Camel policeman, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/94
Girl at Ed Damer, 1929
SAD.A87/95
Man on donkey-back going to market
SAD.A87/96
The skipper of the Louise, Ra'is Dohab
SAD.A87/97
S.G.S. Louise and barge
SAD.A87/98
Feluccas, Shendi
SAD.A87/99
E.N. and W.N. aboard the Louise
SAD.A87/100
Crocodile shot on White Nile
SAD.A87/101
S.G.S. Lord Cromer on the White Nile
SAD.A87/102
Date palms near Ed Damer
SAD.A87/103
Camel orderly, Berber Province
SAD.A87/104
Date palm garden near Ed Damer
SAD.A87/105
Bisharin boy, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/106,109
Riverside scenes, Berber Province
SAD.A87/107-108
Women washing by the Nile at Shendi
SAD.A87/110
Date garden near Ed Damer
SAD.A87/111
Sheep and goats watering on the Nile
SAD.A87/112
Atbara bridge
SAD.A87/113
Abu Hamed
SAD.A87/114
Arab children by date palm
SAD.A87/115
W.N., E.N. and E.S. Fiddes
SAD.A87/116
W.N. at Ed Damer
SAD.A87/117
E.N. on cotton plantation at Gabati
SAD.A87/118-124
At the pyramids of Meroe
SAD.A87/126-132
Market scenes, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/133-135
Visit to El Kab in the Monassir country
SAD.A87/136-139
Animal market, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/140-143
Temple of Abu Simbel
SAD.A87/144
W.N. greeting Berber Province shaykhs
SAD.A87/145
Man and his wife riding donkeys to market
SAD.A87/146
Three women carrying loads on their heads
SAD.A87/147
Sunt tree at Um Ali
SAD.A87/148
Hamed Abu Bakr
SAD.A87/149
Notable's house at Ed Damer
SAD.A87/150
Holy man at Ed Damer, Shaykh al-Suheili
SAD.A87/151
Schoolboys, Ed Damer
SAD.A87/152
Bead seller, Port Sudan
SAD.A87/153
Jabal Um Ali
SAD.A87/154-155
Feluccas on the Nile
SAD.A87/156
Temples of Philae
SAD.A87/157
Promenade at Luxor
SAD.A87/158,160
Winter Palace hotel, Luxor
SAD.A87/159
Water carriers, Luxor
SAD.A87/161-164
Temples at Luxor
SAD.A87/165-166
E.N. and the Blairs at Luxor
SAD.A87/167
W.N. in uniform
SAD.A87/168
Women collecting water from the Nile at Luxor
SAD.A87/169-176
Views of Luxor including the obelisk
SAD.A87/177-184
Valley of the Kings, Luxor
SAD.A87/179-180
Tutankhamun's tomb
SAD.A87/185-188
Thebes
SAD.A87/189
Opera square, Cairo
SAD.A87/190
Sharia Kamel, Cairo
SAD.A87/191
Street scene, Cairo
SAD.A87/192
Cairo museum
SAD.A87/193-196
Pyramids at Gizeh
SAD.A87/197
E.S.U. before the mosque in Cairo
SAD.A87/198-200
Street scenes in Cairo
SAD.A87/201
Kasr el Nil bridge
SAD.A87/202
Arrival at Mena House hotel
SAD.A87/203
Cairo mosque
SAD.A87/204
Cairo family
SAD.A87/205,207
Views of Port Said
SAD.A87/206
Coast guards marching, Port Said
SAD.A87/208
E.N. with Mr. and Mrs. Ford at Mena House
SAD.A87/209
Port Said street
SAD.A87/210
E.N. at Port Said
SAD.A87/211
Rowing boats pulling alongside ship in harbour at Port Said
SAD.A87/212
W.N. in uniform with medals
SAD.A87/213
W.N. in levée dress
3. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.759/13/3
[ca. 1958]
Cutting from a French newspaper on Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's visit to London for talks with Attlee