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This dilapidated building with peeling plaster and narrow windows was constructed in the early 1840s as the Supreme or High Court of the district of Natal. It was dark, badly ventilated, stifling hot in summer, and deadly cold in winter.

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Post Office: Pietermaritzburg

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G. S. Preller

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Government House- Maritzburg

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No photograph of its interior exists but this contemporary sketch shows the layout of its furniture. On the right-hand side is the layout of its furniture.

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Henry Cloete (1792-1870) was the first Recorder of Natal and very learned in Roman-Dutch law as used in Natal. The British government regarded him highly because of his services to them in conducting a kind of census of all the original farms granted to the Voortrekkers between 1839 and 1843.

June 1871, J.S. Brocks house, Mrs B Granny in the garden, Byrne in Richmond in Natal, South Africa

June 1871, J.S. Brocks house, Mrs B Granny in the garden, Byrne in Richmond in Natal, South Africa

R.W. Hosking and horse "Broldignag" at the Guns 1811

R.W. Hosking and horse "Broldignag" at the Guns 1811

Newborough Grange, original home of the Watrons

Newborough Grange, original home of the Watrons

Elizaberth Hocking  sitting under the tree

Elizaberth Hocking  sitting under the tree (Mrs McCord)

The Oaks Hotel at Byrne " side of house 

The Oaks Hotel at Byrne " side of house 

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Sambuca Buchanan

Chief Tilongo Mkhize, (Native Chief) during the 1906 Bhambatha Rebellion

Colonel Royston lecturing chief Tilongo Mkhize, (Native Chief) during the 1906 Bhambatha Rebellion

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Charlotte Evelyn Shepstone was born 29 March 1869

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St Vincent Whitshed Erskine (1846 - 1918), Surveyor General of South Africa

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Killie Campbell

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Professor Alan Frederick Hattersley (1893-1976) was born in Leeds, England, in 1893. He studied History at Cambridge and on completing his degree was invited to come out to South Africa and lecture in history at the new Natal University College (NUC) in 1916. 

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Chas Barter 

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Lieutenant F.G. Farewell (1793-1829), one of the two exnaval officers who pioneered the opening-up of Natal as a trading-station. No pictyre exists of his partner in the trading venture, James Saunders King, who later died of dysentery in Durban and is buried on the Bluff.

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