UPDATE: 10/02/2026 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1900, Funeral of George Labram. 10 February 1919, Railway Engineer George Pauling dies. ST ALBAN’S CHURCH ON TAKOON SQUARE St Alban’s Anglican church on Takoon Square, De Beers ...
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UPDATED: 01/12/2025 1 DECEMBER 1899, Traffic Manager of Cape Government Railways Thomas More dies. 1 DECEMBER 1906, De Beers Benefit Society operates from new building in Stockdale Street. THE DEATH OF HENRY SCOTT-TURNER The death of a personal friend, Henry ...
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UPDATED: 11/11/2025 11 NOVEMBER 1888, De Beers Board passes resolution of Rhodes to build Kenilworth village for the white miners. 11 NOVEMBER 1899, First person, a black woman, killed by Boer shelling during the siege. 11 NOVEMBER 1918, Armistice Day. ...
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UPDATED: 22/09/2025 22 September 1947, Two elderly ladies murdered at 23 Roper Street by James Louw. 22 September 1971, The Town Hall saved from demolition by public poll. (Pictured is 23 Roper Street at the time of the murder) Double ...
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UPDATED: 13/08/2025 13 August 1924, Marthinus Kruger dies after a rugby injury during practice. 13 August 2016, Professor Elaine Rosa Salo (pictured) dies in the USA. In Memoriam: Elaine Salo From: University of Delaware Arts and Sciences Department of Women ...
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UPDATED: 14/07/2025 14 July 1950, USA women’s hockey team beat Griqualand West women 2-1. 14 July 1964, SA hockey player Wally Ubsdell dies. Kenilworth Springbok hockey player Wally Ubsdell Walter (Wally) Alfred Douglas Ubsdell, a former Springbok hockey player, died ...
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UPDATED: 20/06/2025 20 June 1882, St Mary’s Catholic school for boys opens on Currey Street. 20 June 1884, George Stanley, the first white man to be executed in Kimberley, hanged at the Transvaal Road gaol together with Samuel Trott. 20 June ...
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UPDATED: 16/05/2025 16 May 1899, Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, LC Wilkes, dies of typhus. Typhoid fever claims Boys High Headmaster Leopold Complin Wilkes (pictured) was the second Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, serving in that capacity from ...
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UPDATED: 24/03/2025 24 March 1881, Orange River in flood, pont not working. 24 March 1883, Gladstone cemetery opens. 24 March 1894, CW Jones of Kimberley wins the 100 yds in 10.1 secs to be Champion of South Africa. HISTORICAL GLADSTONE ...
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UPDATED: 29/11/2024 29 November 1890, Olive Schreiner meets Cecil Rhodes for the first time. 29 November 1899, The military funeral of Major Henry Scott-Turner, Black Watch in Gladstone cemetery, killed with 22 of his men the previous day. 29 November 1965, Clarence ...
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