John Clark
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Modern Durban with west street cemetery. |
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Early survey of Durban Bay |
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Giant fig tree beach end, pine street at Durban |
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Frontispiece or the Title page |
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W. Churchill plague speech made on the 23rd of December 1899 at Durban |
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A shell chart showing shell-hits when the town was only half-way through the siege. |
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A painting by James B. West, an early Natal artist, shows Durban as it was in 1852. The view is taken from the approach on the road to Pietermaritzburg. The whole area is embowered in the, as yet, unspoiled bush |
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A famous picture by Thomas Baines shows the schooner Conch running gently before the wind as she enters the Bluff channel at Port Natal. With all sails set she tows behind her five or six boats crammed with soldiers of the 27th Regiment. The occasion is of course the relief of Captain T.C. |
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Durban, embowered in natural bush, as seen by the artist James B. West in 1851. Note how thickly covered the Point and the Bluff. The road in the foreground is the beginning of the Berea. |
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Early sketch of Zulu Village : Zulu Kraal near Umlazi, Natal', 1849. Plate 27 from The Kafirs Illustrated, 1849. Artist George French Angas. |
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Another view of Dr. Stanger's thatched cottage, perhaps showing upper Church Street 120 years ago. An equestrian group with the ladies riding side-saddle. A pencil sketch. |
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Cato sketch of the early wreck on Durban bar of the French ship Le Paquet, 1847 |
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The schooner William Shaw built at Cato's Creek for George C. Cato, in 1856. It was named after an Eastern Province missionary who was an old friend. Cato used it for coastwise trading. |
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The Bluff signal station for ships some years after the arrival of the emigrants. No lighthouse was available until 1865 when Peter Paterson, the colonial engineer, erected the first one on the site. |
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Another equestrian group of local notabilities. It is described as a 'Scene near the Umgeni. 16-3-1849. Longfellow fecit'.The people are numbered and named. The coach ascending the hill is that of Henry Cloete, recorder of Natal. |
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A sketch of West Street, Durban, in 1850 appeared in the Illustrated London News. It is a reasonably accurate representation of the main street with its one-storied houses and shops. The unpaved street shows deep wheel marks in the loose sand. |
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This picture by T.W. Bowler, printed in 1865, shows Durban's first tug Pioneer, a small steamer of 40 horsepower, coming out from the harbor to collect mail from a ship lying in the roadstead. (by permission of W.H. Ward, Vereeniging) |
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The wreck of the Minerva: sketch, somewhat damaged, by John Sanderson, himself a Byrneemigrant, showing the ship breaking up on a reef below the Bluff at Durban on the night of 4th-5th July 1850. |
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Seaplane in Durban is one of two brought by Mr. Gerard Hudson as a novel attraction for the gala season. One of Curtis's types intended to fly across the Atlantic. The hangar to be at Congella Boats are 4 seaters, 3 passengers, and a pilot (Dennis Cutler) Pictorial 15/6/1914 |
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George Pomeroy Colley (Dublin, 1.11.1835) - Majuba, 27.2.1881). Previously to coming to Natal with Sir Garnet Wolseley as colonial treasurer in 1875, he served on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony and was a magistrate there. |