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| Gender: | Male | ||
| Active Dates: | circa 1900 - circa 1939 | ||
| Active Area: |
Africa (continent) Kenya (nation) Nairobi Area (special area) Nairobi (inhabited place) Kirinyaga (mountain) |
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| Likenesses: | None found | ||
| Photographs: | None known to be held within the collection | ||
| Publications: | Macmillan, Allister (1930) 'Eastern Africa and Rhodesia: historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial, facts, figures, and resources'. London: W.H. and L. Collingridge [Contains photographs by Binks]. | ||
| Related Entries: | None found. | ||
| H.K. Binks trained as a chemist in England. He emigrated to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1900, but went to Kenya instead and took up farming in Nairobi. He started professional photographic work in 1907. Winston Churchill visited Kenya and Binks succeeded in selling photographs of the event. On the 1 May 1908 he took a telephoto picture of Mount Kenya (also known as Kirinyaga) from a distance of 90 miles. In 1911 he built a wooden aeroplane. Binks was also involved in cinematography and built an establishment at Kilimani for cinema work in 1913. In 1914 he joined the Royal Engineers. He handed over his bioscope plant to the government during World War I, during which time it was used as a signalling station. Binks was in England from 1919 to 1926. In 1926 he returned to Nairobi and restarted his business. He filmed the visit of the Prince of Wales to Kenya in 1928 (Macmillan 1930, p.180). | |||
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