UPDATE: 10/02/2017 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1900, Funeral of George Labram. Pictured is a Long Tom gun used by the Boers; the barrel of Long Tom being shortened in the Pretoria workshops – this is ...
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2 DECEMBER 1912, Beaconsfield amalgamates with Kimberley in 1912. DID YOU KNOW In the early 1880s, and as the Dutoitspan and Bultfontein mining camps began to take on a more permanent look, the inhabitants sent a petition to the Governor of ...
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After almost 100 years, and three generations later, Kimberley saw the end of an era when Alan Chan Yan handed over the keys to K&B Stores in Beaconsfield to the new owner at the end of last month. DFA Oct 17 ...
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A CLASS 25 condensing locomotive has been entrusted “on loan” to Steamnet 2000 in the Northern Cape and last weekend saw a live steamer slowly towing the locomotive at 30km/h to safe storage in Germiston. A spokesman for Steamnet 2000 said ...
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Five suspects have been apprehended and police seized weapons and two vehicles used in a cash in transit heist at K&B Supermarket in Kimberley, around 10am this morning. According to provincial commissioner Risimati Shivuri, part of the stolen cash has been ...
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