South Africa
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John Clark Collection |
Barrack rooms, Fort Napier |
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John Clark Collection |
St Goerges Church. Fort Napier |
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John Clark Collection |
Former officers mess at Fort Napier. A Victorian structure, it was equiped with a hall, recreation rooms, and large verandahs with comfortable chairs for the enjoyment of the enjoyment of iced beers at appropriate times of day. |
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John Clark Collection |
Rows of Old corrugated iron huts, now demolished, at Fort Naper. Thousands of Soliers waiting to go up-country were accomodated in these billets. |
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John Clark Collection |
Fort Napier Offices. |
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John Clark Collection |
A view of a section of barrack-rooms now demolished. The windows were small and few, and walls thick- a combination which ensured coolness during the Natal summer. |
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John Clark Collection |
A Fort Napier barrack-room, also built of local shale by garrison troops under the direction of the Engineers about 1846. Regular soldiers regarded the Fort Napier barrack rooms as the coolest and most comfortable of their billets, chiefly because of the thick shale walls and pantile roofs. |
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John Clark Collection |
J. W. Colenso |
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John Clark Collection |
Sir George Grey |
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John Clark Collection |
Sir George Grey |
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John Clark Collection |
Theophilus Shepstone (1811-93). His first visit toNatal was not a very suspicious one. Not only had he to leave his young bride but when at Port Natal he was physically unwell and 'overcome by melancholy'. In addition he had a narrow escape from being the tale. |
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John Clark Collection |
Fort Napiers earliest strucrure, one of two redoubts built about 1845-4 by Royal Engineers attached to the 4th Regt. |
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John Clark Collection |
Final ship to bring insian to Natal in 1860. |
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John Clark Collection |
A photograph taken some years after showing much the same machinery driven off a main sgatf. The power was obtained from a steam engine. |
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John Clark Collection |
Indians found employment as waiters and stewards in clubs, hotels, resturants and boarding-houses. |
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John Clark Collection |
The same mosques seen as part of the business area |
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John Clark Collection |
Indian mosques in the Grey street of Durban photograph from a large parting garage Over looking them. |
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John Clark Collection |
Bergthei's house. Westville. |
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John Clark Collection |
Indian cane cutters at work with their knives |
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John Clark Collection |
Jonas Bengtheil, First promoter of European land settlement in Natal |