My informant Pat Sligo has chimed in with a couple of things lately. He provided some missing info on the cinemas page and I managed to find a picture of the Prince’s Theatre and Playhouse, which had been missing from … Read More
After a shamefully long time (emigration pushed a lot of things onto the back burner), I have finally gotten around to posting the balance of the pictures and news clippings sent in by my informant Pat Sligo. Pat was among … Read More
Keeping up with my resolution to add something to FAD monthly, this month I am taking a cue from John Taylor’s post about Musgrave Centre. Henwoods will only be a name familiar to those who knew Durban as it was … Read More
My informant John Taylor wrote in with some memories of an earlier version of Musgrave Centre: Hi Allan, It’s probably fair to say that Musgrave Centre in its original form was the first suburban shopping centre in Durban. As I … Read More
Growing up in Durban from the 50s onwards, there were certain individuals one came to meet possibly through the business they had or perhaps they were just well known names in and around Durban. As someone else pointed out to … Read More
Robert Hart wrote in recently: I too have fond memories of Durban. I was born in Johannesburg in 1972 and remember our annual holiday in Durban. You must appreciate that I was very young and my memories of the holidays … Read More
Bob Gooderson asks if anyone can remember the name of a hotel that has slipped his mind. He wote: Does anybody remember the name of the hotel which stood on the site where Marine Parade Post office is now sited? … Read More
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
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
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