UPDATED: 20/04/2021 20 April 1886, Gladstone Hotel near the railway station opens. The Gladstone suburb – now De Beers suburb That the current suburb known as De Beers was first named Gladstone after the English Prime Minister of the time, ...
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UPDATE: 10/02/2021 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1919, Railway Engineer George Pauling dies. RAILWAY ENGINEER AND PIONEER DIES George Craig Sanders Pauling (pictured here with his first wife) was the engineer and the man in ...
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UPDATE: 24/04/2020 24 April 1884, South Africa’s first industrial strike begins, by miners. 24 April 1941, Steam tram derails at Kenilworth terminus. Miners go on strike in Kimberley The white miners at all four Kimberley mines went on strike in ...
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