Natalie Nel posted three pictures on FaceBook of the Colonial Mutual Life Building when it was being constructed. They looked like purposely taken photographs. I contacted Natalie and she agreed to send me copies so that I could post them … Read More
The Place on The Hill …. Entabeni Hospital 1930-1980. with acknowledgement to Marilyn Poole. Click on pictures to enlarge. One of the fascinations I have is looking at old postcards and photographs of buildings that once adorned what must have … Read More
Site contributor Udo Averweg has sent in an interesting article he wrote on Natal Command and the Officer and NCO who were in charge when it closed as a military base. You can download the article (and his others) in … Read More
I’ve just added a lot of information sent in by my informant Zak Coombs about the Great Smith Street Fire of 1884 and about William Milne whose NGR volunteer fire brigade was instrumental in fighting the fire. The new stories … Read More
Gerald Buttigieg has added some new material to his 2013 page on Durban’s St Joseph’s Churches. The page is here but you can go straight to the new material here St Joseph’s in its various guises (schools and … Read More
Written by Rev. P. E. Goldie. One of my real likes is coming across small booklets especially concerning Durban history, written up by someone who has taken the time to do some research and investigating into the subject matter. Some … Read More
Reader Kevin Watson sent in this great postcard of a line-up of Ricksha pullers. He wrote that it was one of two postcards left in a book of tear-out postcards called “12 Attractive Views of Durban” he found in a … Read More
Compiled and Researched by Kevan N J Mardon The first radio broadcast in South Africa was undertaken in Johannesburg on 18 December 1923 by the Western Electric Company … “Good Morning this is JB Calling …. “, Cape Town … Read More
Cricket was never my game at School but I was Scorer for the Second XI! Back then in the late 1950s/early 1960s there were some star studded High School cricket teams in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and surrounds. There was quite a … Read More
With the rather inclement weather we are having in the Midlands, and my youngest granddaughter staying with us for a short while, we decided to go and visit the kwaZuluNatal Museum in Pietermaritzburg. She has never been to a museum. … Read More