Miscellaneous
11 December 1972 4 Croft Lodge, Crowbrough, Sussex Dear Astbury I had hoped that the editor of the Sudan Diocesan Autumn
Review would include the following in an account I wrote for him re the birth
of the Gezira Irrigation Scheme in the Sudan, and that I could then send you a
copy. However, he couldn�t manage it, so I now write it. When in 1925 Mr.
Tottenham retired from service in Egypt he was the last of the senior British
Civil Engineers trained mainly at Roorkee and Coopers Hill and most with
experience of Irrigation in India, who have served the Egyptian Gov�t from
1885-1925 when Egypt obtained independence. Over these 40 years their fame
rests mainly on the beneficial Irrigation works for control and distribution of
the waters of the Nile in Egypt and the Sudan and the sapient prosperity of the
two countries. You will see from the enclosure what a useful contribution
Coopers Hill men made to the welfare of Egypt and the Sudan. As a matter of
fact Depuis and I were the only Coopers Hill men who were responsible for
irrigation developments in the Sudan but Garstin, a Roorkee man, reported on
its possibilities. Yours as ever P.M. Tottenham |
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