Foreword written by the  Mayor of Nairobi, Alderman F G R Woodley 

A period of Fifty years in the life of most Towns is a mere fragment; for Nairobi it is almost the whole of our history and it spans the lives of many who came in their youth to make a new life here, to hew from what was for the most part unkown and unfriendly country the civilisation we enjoy to-day.