Views out over the bay at Jesselton. Mountain scenery at Kota Belud

Jesselton airport with aircraft movements including Bell Helicopter and Comet Airliner of Malaya airlines. Wicksteed family at their holiday chalet high in the forested mountains.

Production / Donor Details: These films were taken by Edmund Kennedy Wicksteed, 1916-1992. In the 1930s he worked as a customs officer in Malaya, was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, & was imprisoned at Lintang Internment Camp, Kuching, Sarawak. After the war he served as a customs officer, District Officer, & then joined the secretariat in Jesseleton before becoming Resident in various districts in Borneo. He returned to England in 1966 when Borneo became independent. He was awarded the CBE for colonial service.