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A visit to the Big Hole will transport you back in time to the very beginning of Kimberley and the discovery of Diamonds. The Big Hole is a massive man-made excavation, 214 meters deep with a surface area of 17 ...

Kimberley Mine Museum and Big Hole Do you want to retrace the lives of the rough-and-ready diggers who made it all happen? Or experience life in Kimberley as it must have been during the diamond-rush days when races, lotteries, pubs ...

Africana Library Containing a wealth of Africana and other historically significant material, the library offers its visitors valuable insight into the Northern Cape, diamond mining, travel and missionary word and early printed works, including Tswana printing. William Humphreys Art Gallery ...

The Peace and Justice Memorial on the Greenpoint Community Square. This very modern memorial on the Square in one of Kimberley’s oldest suburbs, Greenpoint, was unveiled in September 1998 by the then Mayor, Alderman Maria Chwarisang. The sculptor, Kimberley resident ...

Carrington Road Carrington Road has always been considered an avenue for the very well-to-do of Kimberley and boasts some truly historic houses, particularly those on the Kimberley side rather than the Beaconsfield side that are more modern. Two of the ...

Bevil Rudd, grandson of co-founder of the De Beers Mining Company with Cecil Rhodes, and son of Percy Rudd, long time Director of De Beers Consolidated Mines, was a superb sportsman. He died relatively young at age 53 (or 54) ...

The title evokes thoughts of the early days, of boisterous diggers in one of the many saloons or pubs that studded the winding roads of the canvas and corrugated iron diamond town, swigging draughts and singing along with, dare one ...

1871    The first Private Postal Delivery Service 1877    The first professional training of nurses 1880’s The first rugby touring teams 1880    The first drive in bar 1882    The first city in the Southern Hemisphere to install electric street lighting on 2 ...