UPDATE: 24/04/2025 24 April 1884, South Africa’s first industrial strike begins, by miners. 24 April 1941, Steam tram derails at Kenilworth terminus. Pictured is the Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company shaft circa 1886 – at the Kimberley Mine (Big Hole). ...
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UPDATE: 10/02/2025 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: 20/04/2023 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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