Tag Archives: Dutoitspan Village

UPDATE: 24/04/2019 24 April 1884, South Africa’s first industrial strike begins, by miners. 24 April 1941, Steam tram derails at Kenilworth terminus. DID YOU KNOW The white miners at all four Kimberley mines went on strike in April 1884 because ...

UPDATED: 08/03/2019 8 March 1886, Phoenix Hotel in Beaconsfield established. 8 March 2017, Two policemen and one former policeman killed in a city shootout. DID YOU KNOW In the early 1880s, and as the Dutoitspan and Bultfontein mining camps began ...

4 February 1884, West Indian Samuel Trott, murders storekeeper John Jackson in Dutoitspan village. FROM KIMBERLEY CALLS & RECALLS BY STEVE LUNDERSTEDT DID YOU KNOW It is difficult to imagine a citizen of the West Indies islands being executed for ...

19 November 1871, Fr Hidien, Catholic priest who began the first two hospitals in Kimberley, dies. 19 November 1886, Michael King kills the one-armed Charles Murray in Dutoitspan village. 19 November 1892, Kimberley Town Bowling Club opens, the 2nd in SA. 19 ...

4 October 1884, William Griffin murders Grace Kelt at “The Flag is Ours” Club in Dutoitspan village. (Pictured is Dutoitspan village) DID YOU KNOW “A SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT DUTOITSPAN” This tragic headline appeared in the columns of the Diamond Fields ...

UPDATED: 25/09/2018 25 September 1886, William Hendricks accidentally kills his wife Sophy after a drunken spree. He was found not guilty of murder. 25 September 1907, Alexander McGregor Museum officially opened. 25 September 1908, Salvation Army leader General William Booth, visits Kimberley. ...

21 September 1888, Detective Robert Murray (pictured) dies in a fire on Barkly Road. 21 September 1905, The first principal of Girls High School, Miss E.L. Redford, dies. DID YOU KNOW Robert Murray was born in Ireland, the eldest of ...

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 ...

23 September 1871, Theatre Royal in Dutoitspan Village opens. 23 September 1887, The Queen’s Theatre opens. 23 September 1918, The first case of Spanish ’Flu in Dutoitspan Mine compound detected. 23 September 1942, Colonel Sir David Harris, (pictured) cousin of Barney Barnato dies. ...