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This site has now got so large that material may not be listed on this page. This is a good place to browse and you may very very well find what you’re looking for but it would be a good idea to use the search facility as well. There is a lot of material in the diary pages and in comments on those posts that you might miss if you don’t.
- 15 Squadron SAAF
- About Allan Jackson
- The Age of Sail – Some sailing ships to have visited Durban
- Album – vintage Durban Pics & Postcards
- As if it were yesterday – by Trevor Friend
- Associated Divers – Durban by Neil Gould
- Aviation history 1910-1950s
- Aviation Memories of Durban in the 1950s
- Aviation Page
- First Aerial Survey of Durban
- Bakeries and Dairies of Durban – Gerald Buttigieg
- Battle of the Bar, The
- Battle of Congella – Udo Richard Averweg
- Beachfront remiscences – Tim Pullen
- Beaches, bioscope and milkshakes by John Taylor
- A blacksmith remembers his whaling days
- Bunny Chow – Durban’s gastronomic sandwich
- Cathcart Methven book review.
- Cato Manor History
- Cinema locations
- A Coelacanth sleeps at Natal Command.
- Cookie Look Cookies
- Cookie Look and Rock ‘n Roll
- Coull, Roy – biography by Alan Taylor
- TB Davis page
- DHEW – harbour entrance widening project.
- Diary Pages – See much interesting stuff here.
- Dodo’s Page 50s/60s reminiscences and beachfront pix
- Drummond memories by Gavin Foster
- Durban in WWII – Malcolm Barker
- Umbilo Drive-Inn by GM Enerson
- Durban’s Earliest Hydroplanes (seaplanes).
- Durban’s first big cricket match
- Durban Has Changed – 3 March 1945
- Durban’s Wooden Railway by Terry Hutson
- Early rotocraft flight in Durban by Alan Taylor
- Entertainment / Beaches 1950s and 60s
- Fairfield Handicap 1948 by Marius Mathee
- Fighters Over Durban
- Fishing stories – by Len Jones
- Fire contents page
- Visit to the Fire Department 2007
- The Great Smith Street Fire of 1884 by Zak Coombs
- Biography of William Milne by Zak Coombs
- Milne’s firefighting medal by Zak Coombs
- First Steam Railway in South Africa
- A floating dock is built – 1945.
- Flying Boats in Durban
- Free sample of some of the entries in Facts About Durban – First Edition.
- Geology and water for early settlers – TE Francis
- Geology of the Durban area
- Gerald Buttigieg’s Durban Memoirs – Growing up in Durban in the 1950s.
- Going to town – John Taylor
- Growing up in Durban during WWII – by Leon Nicholson
- Growing up in Durban – 1950s – by Rose Enstrom
- Hall of Fame – a log of people who’ve helped with Facts About Durban.
- Harbour contents page – articles about Durban Harbour
- Hillary War Graves & War Graves in Durban
- HMS Durban visits Durban – 1926
- Highlights from the History of Public Transport in Durban
- Horace Dainty – radio pioneer
- Inchanga memories by Gavin Foster
- Industrial Durban – 1930/31
- Information needed from readers
- The International Arts League of Youth
- Joan remembers – memories from an old Durbanite.
- Kings Park Cycle Club 1930s-1990s – 3Mb PDF download.
- Kittyhawk crashes / civil aircraft – by Alan Taylor
- Kydaar’s Durban memories – By Peter Grindley-Ferris
- Last Sunderland Flight from Durban by Tom Chalmers
- Last visit to North Pier
- Learning to Fly – Durban 1936
- Lebbeus Laybutt’s 35 Sqn Photo Album
- Maatskapij vir Europese Immigrasie (Council for European Immigration).
- Durban Memoires Gastronomique 1967 – 1993 By Dave Baird
- Memoirs of a Montclair Boy – Dave Phillips
- Memoirs of growing up in Durban by William Paterson
- Memories of a Visit to Durban – in Feb 1917 by Frederick Pendall
- Memories of growing up in Woodlands, Durban by Derek Austin
- Miller Flight, The by Rolfe Mathews
- Miniature train and paddlesteamer – Gerald Buttigieg
- Music in Durban contents page
- Mysteries of a Clan Chief by Colin Garvie
- Natal Command, Stark reality of – Udo Averweg
- The sinking of the Nova Scotia
- Ocean Terminal, Architect of
- Out and about in town – 1970/1980s – Allan Jackson
- The Ovington Court disaster
- Durban Paddle Ski Club History – by Johny Vasilaros
- Paradise Valley by Gavin Foster
- Photo Album – vintage Durban Pics & Postcards
- Point Road Police and Fire Stations restored.
- The Port Captain’s Daughter – by Vivian Atwood
- Port entrance widening gets underway by Terry Hutson
- Story of Port Natal, The – 1926.
- Postcards from Durban – a growing page!
- Prince George’s Visit – 1934
- Radar in Durban – WWII by Gavin Foster
- Readers’ Contributions Contents Page
- Robert Page’s 35 SQN photo album
- Royal Natal Yact Club history book
- Royal Visit 1947
- SA’S Eastern Port – 1936
- Currie’s Fountain and the Da Gama Clock (Scottish Ironwork)
- Serve to Save – SAAF rescue boats off Durban by Guy Ellis
- Siege of the old Fort relieved – By Udo Richard Averweg
- Early seventies nightlife – by Neil Gould
- Ships called Durban
- St Henry’s first soccer team – playing at Lords Ground
- Stories from Durban’s Aviaton Past
- Storm Surge – March 2007
- Sources used for Facts About Durban
- Symbols of Durban: Seal, Coat of Arms & Logos
- Time Ball wins award
- The Tragedy of Vampire Jet 246
- A Tragic Accident at the Bluff Lighthouse – Rosemary Dixon-Smith
- Troopship Revolt, A – 1942
- Trudgeon, John whaling pictures.
- Tugs are built in Durban – 2008
- Two King’s Parks, The page of the.
- U-Boats off Natal – The Local Ocean War, 1942-1944
- Union Castle Memories – by Tim Gallwey
- University of Natal – A short history
- VC10 visit.
- A Visit To The Circus by Rosemary Dixon-Smith
- War graves in Durban and other stories by Ricky Nortje
- Watering holes by John Taylor
- Watering holes of my youth – David Baird
- Way we were, The Some memories of 1950s and 60s
- Welcome to Durban – The war years.
- A whaler remembers – Rein Pirn
- Whaling in Durban – 1908-1975
- Window of opportunity opens, A – Ship building and repair
- What did you do for fun in Durban (late 1950s & 1960s) – by Gerald Buttigieg
- Where to get Facts About Durban
- Whittle, Frank, loses a pencil.
- Who was the first harbourmaster? – Robin Lamplough
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- 15 Squadron SAAF BK117 and Oryx helicopters
- Advertisment (line drawing) for Short Bros., manufacturers of the Empire Class Flying Boats.
- Bluff Lighthouse and Signal Station – 1890s
- Cambria – first Imperial Airways Flying Boat to land in Durban
- Danmark – sailing ship which visited Durban in about 1948
- Durban Castle Postcard – 1951
- Double Decker Diesel Bus in 1960
- Gambit the Dolphin
- Horse-drawn Trams in Durban
- HMS Cornwall
- Howard College
- Indian Bus – Typical
- Last hours of the Kate – a ship is scuttled off Durban.
- Last Tram in Durban – Old Faithful
- Point Docks – liner leaving harbour; 1950s??
- Military Parade Grenadier Guards on Victoria Embankment.
- The Natal Locomotive which ran on the first steam railway in South Africa between the Point and Pine Street in Durban. This picture is of the recreation currently on view at Durban Station.
- Overturned Trolley Bus
- SAS Mendi on her first visit to Durban: 4-7 November 2004
- Evocative picture of West Street in Durban (1890s ??)
- West Street much later; 1950s??
- A whale on the Bluff slipway.
- Whalespotting – a picture of a spotter aircraft flying over a whale catcher. Thought to have been taken to mark the first occasion a whale was spotted from a Durban-based aircraft and killed.
Links
- http://www.durban.gov.za/ – eThekwini Online is the website of the eThekwini Municipality and has sections for both visitors and residents. Here you can find just about anything including accomodation, things to do, council minutes and the mayor’s e-mail address. One intriguing feature is under City Maps in the Residents section where you can call up maps showing any address in the city with whatever detail you want, including culverts, sewer pipes and storm water drains. There are also low-resolution aerial photographs available.
- Genealogy: Rosemary Dixon-Smith is an expert on genealogy in KwaZulu Natal and plays a major part in the Genealogy World website.
- All At Sea – Derek Walker’s site which has a lot of stuff on maritime issues and history relating to South Africa.
- Garry Schei is based in Scotland but has a website, here, with a very nice collection of old pictures of Durban.
- Chris Charlesworth has a cool page with quite a number of vintage Durban postcards.
- A photographic site showcasing the work of Peter Bendheim who is a friend to Facts About Durban. There are some excellent pictures of Durban people and places, but not the usual touristy views.
- Ports and Ships is a very nice resource on the Port of Durban and other Southern African Ports, including information on what ships are in harbour.
- Guy Ellis, who contributed the section on SAAF rescue launches in Durban to this site, has moved to England. He has set up a history website which specialises in the Stroud area but which has other interesting stories on it including a couple with South African relevance.
- An interesting local history site dealing with Ladysmith in Kwazulu Natal (and primarily the Anglo-Boer War siege).
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