25 Apr 2013

Curiosities

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Here are a couple of new pictures sent in by Bob Gooderson. This one is of Mini Town which, as far as I know, is operational near to the old Snake Park site. I was in there only once or twice as a kid and I think that may have been because it may have been a bit expensive for us.

Mini Town.
Courtesy Bob Gooderson.

 

The chef Peter Chen was an institution in the Edward Hotel’s Mandarin Room restaurant for many years. The following is a scan of a menu from dinner on 16 March 1981 and a signed Jock Leyden cartoon of Peter. I note that the dinner was a whole R4.00 per person.*

Peter Chen and the Mandarin Room.
Courtesy Bob Gooderson.

 

*Added 6 February 2019: We have received a photo of the Mandarin Room’s menu from approximately 10 years earlier. View it here.

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14 Apr 2013

Mansfield High

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Last month Gary Teague sent in three pictures and a question:

Hi
I am a school teacher at George Campbell School of Technology –formerly George Campbell Technical high School. We are  celebrating our 50th anniversary this year.
Here are some old photos we received from a person in Group5 at our school – When do you think they were taken?
Regards
Gary

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12 Apr 2013

Harbour views

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Today we have a magnificent set of views (mostly of the harbour) sent in by Johnny Vassilaros.  Thanks to J Dube (see comments below) I now know that these pictures originated from from HiltonT”s photo sharing pages on Flickr and are courtesy of The Publicity and Travel Department of The SAR&H. Included are shots of the loading and unloading of cargo in the pre-container days, tugs and ships, aerial harbour views and some beach scenes. Most have captions and some even have dates.

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When taking a look at HiltonT’s Flickr pictures I also came across this beautiful shot of buses having just been unloaded from the ship in 1939. The picture originally appeared in Life magazine and was taken by William Vandivert and shows the buses complete with Durban roller-destination signs. See the article on this site which talks about Durban transport.

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7 Mar 2013

Umhlanga Rocks

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My informant Douglas Beveridge has sent in a picture of an aircraft (believed to be a Kittyhawk fighter**) being recovered from Umhlanga Beach in 1942. Does anyone know anything about the crash?

Picture courtesy Douglas Beveridge.

** Added 15 April 2013: See comments below for what the aircraft might really have been.

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22 Feb 2013

Diary notes

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I was looking at the statistics of this diary (which is really a blog) built-into the FAD website and I realised that we have started to develop quite a community of people leaving comments on posts and sharing their knowledge and memories. At the time of this writing there had been 482 comments which is pretty good. I think, for a small local history website. Read More

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21 Feb 2013

New pictures

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Bob Gooderson has sent along some very interesting pictures.

This picture is of the site of the old station and the workshop complex. Bob had the following to say about it:

The closest date I can guess is 1981/2. The new station was already in use. The old station platform canopy had already been moved sideways so that Pine Street could run right through. The building which became The Workshop had hardly been touched. Can anybody remember the date on which the new station in Umgeni Road opened as that would give an accurate starting period?
A label on the back of the picture says ‘Patrick Squire Photographer’.

Here are a few more from the family archive including pictures of taken of  (or from, I assume) their hotel, the Lonsdale.

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