UPDATED: 13/05/2022 13 May 1888, Telegraphist Alfred Cogill dies. 13 May 1908, Dedication of new St Cyprian’s Church. 13 May 1915, Anti-German riots after sinking of SS Lusitania. 13 May 1980, The Kimberley Drive-In theatre opens to all races. Mob ...
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UPDATED: 12/05/2022 12 May 1915, Ernest Oppenheimer resigns as Mayor of Kimberley. 12 May 1962, Dame Flora Robson appears on stage in Kimberley in “The Corn is Green”. 12 May 1976, Lance Mowbray elected Life Member of the Master Builders ...
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UPDATED: 13/04/2022 13 April 1898, The Town Council approves the new Town Hall to be built on Market Square. 13 April 1900, Tolls end in Kimberley after being gazetted. 13 April 1917, Springbok Septimus Ledger killed in action at Arras. ...
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UPDATED: 29/03/2022 29 March 1898, Kimberley’s old Town Hall destroyed in a fire. 29 March 1902, De Beers Director Captain HM Penfold, RNR, dies. DEATH OF CAPTAIN PENFOLD 3 DAYS AFTER RHODES When Captain Marchant Hugh Penfold of the Royal ...
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UPDATED: 07/03/2022 7 March 1896, Theo Samuels takes 7 for 42 for GW against England. 7 March 1900, Refugees given passes to leave Kimberley. 7 March 1923, Diamond buyer William Thompson killed by Delville Wood survivor Arthur Stanley, at Rus ...
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UPDATED: 18/02/2022 18 February 1900, Worst day of the war for the British army with more than 1100 casualties at Paardeberg. 18 February 1929, Kimberley’s second Post Office on Market Square opens for business. 18 February 1966, St Boniface Mission ...
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UPDATE: 10/02/2022 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1900, Funeral of George Labram. 10 February 1919, Railway Engineer George Pauling dies. Pictured is Labram and his grave stone From the Siege of Kimberley diary of Winifred ...
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UPDATED: 07/02/2022 7 February 1900, Famous British golfer, Freddie Tait, killed fighting Boers at Koodoosberg. 7 February 1900, The Boer Long Tom fires into Kimberley for the first time at 11am. 7 February 1901, Military stores burnt out at the Transvaal Road ...
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4 February 1884, West Indian Samuel Trott, murders storekeeper John Jackson in Dutoitspan village. 4 February 1900, The Highland Brigade, including Lt FG Tait (pictured), leaves Modder River camp en route to Koodoosberg Drift. The murder of John Jackson in ...
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UPDATE: 27/01/2022 27 January 1910, A liberal supporter of all sports, James A Hill of Hill and Paddon, dies at his home “Violet Bank” on Park Road. JAMES HILL OF VIOLET BANK and HILL AND PADDON James (Jimmy) Alfred Hill ...
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