I must be getting old. This is the first time I’ve been convinced I’ve done something on the site and discovered I haven’t. This story goes back a while to 2010 when my informant David Vickery sent in some of … Read More
Can anyone provide the name of the Empire flying boat in the picture below? It was sent in by reader Nicole whose grandfather was Captain Roger P Mollard of Imperial Airways and BOAC. Captain Mollard was apparently based in Durban for … Read More
John Austin Williams has announced that the website commemorating the Durban-Johannesburg motorcycle race is up and running. You can find it here. Share this:
This is a reply to the previous post asking for information about the DJ motorcycle race. Ed. I looked through my late father in law’s scrapbooks 1970 to 1975 and came up with three cuttings on the DJ. I tried … Read More
The (DJ) Durban Johannesburg Motorcycle Race was first run in 1913 and completing it must have been a real feat of endurance. The event runs each year and I have been approached by John Austin-Williams to appeal for any information … Read More
Today Sunday 1st April 2012 is exactly, to the day, 50 years since a group of between 200 to 300 Durban boys left Durban Station en route to Bloemfontein to start our 9 months Active Citizen Force Training. We were … Read More
Click on picture to enlarge and enable you to read the script I know Durban lays claim to the Bunny Chow but in the 50s / 60s, my diet, and I would be safe to say that of countless others, was … Read More
Today, we have a request by Katrina Anderson for information from anyone who might know the background of the Union Club. Her grandfather William Ewing Watt was apparently a member before he died in Durban in 1943. I’d welcome any … Read More
We have been getting along without site search ever since Google cancelled FAD’s free search facility. Happily, there seems to have been some sort of u-turn and the facility is now back on the site, and accessible from the menu … Read More
Here’s a cool advert sent in by my informant Lorna Thomopoulos. I must confess I don’t remember Lee Men Ltd or Tiles, but the guys look cool anyway. Share this: