Group of Europeans at starting of clock, Uzuakoli, Nigeria, 1934

Black and white photograph showing a group of Europeans in the town of Uzuakoli, south-eastern Nigeria. They attending the starting of the town clock at Uzuakoli on 8th August 1934. The Church Missionary Society founded a training school at Uzuakoli, the Uzuakoli Institute, in 1923, in which missionaries from the Methodist Missionary Society worked. Four men pose in shirts, shorts and pith helmets. One of the men stands with a collie dog. A woman in a dress and pith helmet stands at the front of the group. The caption to this image reads: "Group of Europeans at starting of clock - Uzuakoli 1934." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in southeast Nigeria, run by the Methodist Missionary Society.