Long Cecil Gun Archives

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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 09 FEBRUARY

UPDATE: 09/02/2026 9 February 1887, Goldfields company started by Cecil Rhodes and Charles Rudd. 9 February 1900, George Labram, designer of…

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UPDATED: 20/01/2026 20 January 1900, Proving, sighting and slight adjustments to the Long Cecil gun (pictured) are made. 20 January…

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UPDATE: 19/01/2026 19 January 1900, The Long Cecil gun, designed by American George Labram, and built in the De Beers…

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UPDATED: 02/09/2025 2 September 1882, The southern hemisphere’s first street lights switched on in Kimberley. Flashback to 2015 – 10…

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UPDATED: 15/07/2025 15 July 1871, Diamond News reports that there are 43 graves in Dutoitspan cemetery. 15 July 1916, The…

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UPDATED: 24/01/2025 24 January 1900, Biggest bombardment of Kimberley by the Boers during the siege, Maggie Maddocks killed. 500 SHELLS…

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UPDATED: 16/11/2023 16 November 1883, The SA Perm founded in Kimberley. 16 November 1896, Theodore Samuels, who scored the first…

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25 December 1899, Cecil Rhodes gives permission to George Labram to begin the construction of the Long Cecil gun. 25 December…