Showing posts with label Pietermaritzburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pietermaritzburg. Show all posts

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Souvenir Saturday: Pietermaritzburg postcart 1880s

Postcart outside Pietermaritzburg Town Hall, ca 1880s.
An interesting variety of headgear in this picture.
[KZN Museum NAM0010_014F.tif]



For an excellent article on postcarts and postal services in Natal see 

www.natalia.org.za/Files/31/Natalia%20v31%20article%20p30-33%20C.pdf

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Souvenir Saturday: Pietermaritzburg early 1900s

Church Street with the Town Hall - and not a motor car in sight.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Souvenir Saturday: Staff of Boys' Model School Pietermaritzburg 1893



Staff, Boys' Model School, Pietermaritzburg, in 1893.
F G Richmond (seated front row centre in light trousers) was one of the great
headmasters of  Natal education in the late 19th c
(Click on the pic for a closer look.)



Details given on the back of the photo