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| John Clark Collection |
Richmond |
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| John Clark Collection |
R. C. Samnelson |
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| John Clark Collection |
This statue commemorates a 15-year-old boy named John Ross who made a long and dangerous round trip of 600 miles (about 960km) from NAtal to Delagoa Bay (later Lourenco Marques, now Maputo) to obtain medicines and ship supplies for the Port Natal settlers. Apprenticed to Lieut. J.S. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Richmond |
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| John Clark Collection |
Graaff-Reinet |
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| John Clark Collection |
K. W. Poffelt |
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| John Clark Collection |
A unit of the Lancers halting at Curry's Post, about 38 km north-west of Pietermaritzburg. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Rose Cottage- Byrne |
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| John Clark Collection |
Joseph C. Byne depicted on the 'Emigration Vulture in this sketch by John Sanderson, 1852, when disappointed emigrants were seeing him of giving them false information about Natal. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Upper Longmarket Street and Government House (NTC) about 1920. Presented by Mrs. Nancy Ogilvie 1975 |
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| John Clark Collection |
A page from Fynn's manuscript diary, now kept in the Natal Archives. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Ladysmith (Boer War) Reconnoitring war balloons |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sir G. Smith's shelled house -Ladysmith 1900 |
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| John Clark Collection |
Ladysmith with Waggon Hill in the distance |
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| John Clark Collection |
Cartoon by G.S Summer , a Natal artist, making fun of the newly amied settlers at Durban. The small boy and the women are scarted to death at their final meeting with a Zulu dock worker. The father is prepared to defend himself with an umbrella. The sketch was made in the 1860s. |
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Today many relics of the Natal campaign exist in the Midlands, particularly around Ladysmith. Pictures show one of two famous mortars which helped to defend the beleaguered town and which the British command later donated to the town. Note the size of the shell. |
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Perhaps the main cause of emigration in the period of 1849-52 was economic distress that prevailed throughout Britian. Bad Harvests, High rents, unemployment bank failures, the collapse of the railway boom in 1847, etc., Threw artisans and farmworkers alike out of their jobs. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Voortrekker brake shoes or remskoene placed under the wagon wheel to slow it down on steep hills or rocky slopes. |
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| John Clark Collection |
James Saunders King (1795-1828) Born in Halifax, New Brunswick, in 1795, he joined the Royal Navy as a ship's boy in 1806 and left it as a 20-year-old midshipman in 1815. |
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Byrne - view of misty hills alongside the Church. December 1975 |