Longtime FAD friend William Paterson has written in with a request regarding the impact on Durban of the Spanish Flu which swept the world after WWI. He wrote: Hello Allan Could you put out another general request for source material … Read More
My informant Tim Gallwey wrote in with the following: Hi Allan, Most of your material concerns the central business district and industry is hardly ever mentioned. I realise that this is a reflection of the material sent in to you … Read More
It is 50 years since I got my driver’s licence and I went through the same ritual as so many of my time. At that time driver’s licences were issued to those who had turned 18. A learner’s licence had … Read More
As usual my late father-in-law kept a newspaper record of some of the events of the years 1964 and 1974 so here goes. 1964 Harry Fisher and Gordon Rowe of Johannesburg won the Dusi Canoe Marathon. With the Umgeni in … Read More
I have always been conscious that FAD’s coverage is incomplete and that we do not reflect the experience of all Durbanites. There has never been any intention to exclude anyone but the limited time I have had available has meant … Read More
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Can anyone help the pictures in the following gallery which were sent in by my informant Ian Calder Potts (whose family, we soon discovered, were very friendly with my mum’s family in East Griqualand). The scans came from a book … Read More
Click for new material added to the page in October 2018 Between 1960 and 1970, I was a parishioner of St Joseph’s Catholic Church which is located in Stamford Hill Road and the property included the corner, Argyle Road … Read More
A couple of years ago (2011 to be precise) we had a request from Arthur Gammage for a picture of a statue that went missing from Medwood Gardens. My informant Myles Bodill was in touch a little while ago with … Read More
Iain Wilson wrote in with the following memories. I was born, like a lot of people in Addington hospital and lived a part of my early life in Bathurst Road, Woodlands, Durban, (from 1956 until 1966). I attended the Infant … Read More