Tag Archives: Griqualand West Railway and Water Company

19 May 1879, Presbyterian Church foundation stone laid by Sir Walter Frere, New Main Road. 19 May 1881, First sod turned for the new Newton reservoir by Moses Cornwall. (Pictured is the reservoir wall in 1899 being used by the ...

25 OCTOBER 1882, Trial pumping of water from the Vaal river to Kimberley. 25 OCTOBER 1940, Springbok John (Jack) Braine dies. (Pictured is an engraving published in the Illustrated London News of January 1883 showing the Waterworks on the Vaal ...