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Assembling the stone Crusher
Circa 1937. Was used to crush stone for factory foundations
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Uploaded on Feb 2, 2010
Lady Pluckers 40/50's
First Women Pluckers in the Malawi Tea Industry. Outside Huntingdon in F2 looking towards the factory
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Uploaded on Feb 2, 2010
Satemwa Airstrip
Looking towards the north over Mwalanthunzi Office and No1 house
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Uploaded on Feb 2, 2010
Chawani Division and Thyolo Mountain
Chawani Division - has the highest grown tea in Malawi. Division office can be seen in foreground....
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Uploaded on Feb 2, 2010
Huntingdon House and Emerald Satemwa Fields
Looking East from Overhead Satemwa Factory
Rolling Room
Satemwa's Founder; Maclean Kay standing in the rolling room at Satemwa Factory circa 1940....
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2007
Sorting Room
Line shaft
As in all factories before the advent of the electirc motor, machines were run off line shaft untill the early 1960's.
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2007
Tats
'Tats' in the Satemwa Factory circa 1937. These were used for withering. Pressure throughs are used...
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2007
Tea leaf being 'fluffed' in a withering trough
These troughs are used in the production of black tea in order to get a physical and chemcial wither -...
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Uploaded on May 14, 2007
2 and a bud
A dream to any tea maker - such well plucked and withered leaf!!
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Uploaded on May 14, 2007
Plucking for Specilty Tea's
Each leaf is specialy selected and once harvested treated as gently as possible in order to tease out the best aromas and flavours
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Uploaded on May 14, 2007
The Satemwa School
This school of over 600 kids is built and maintained by Satemwa. Teachers are provided by the Governemnt, but also housed by Satemwa
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Uploaded on May 14, 2007
