Wednesday, May 2, 2018


 SOUTH  AFRICA - CAPE  TOWN   
GEORGE BULLOUGH - WORLD TOUR 1892 - 1895  
TABLE MOUNTAIN FROM CAPE TOWN DOCKS 
Album VIII  *  One of four wood-cut block prints on page 14  *  Size of each 3½ x 2 inches
(Reproduced twice original size.)

Time of visit: July / August 1893

 Article 22 of 28   *  Published in the Accrington Gazette on the 17th of October 1896

Article twenty-two continues the recollections of the 1892-1895 world tour made by
George Bullough, (later Sir George, Baronet, Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, Scotland) 
and his companion, Robert Mitchell, published in a series 
of twenty-eight articles by Mitchell published
in the local Lancashire newspaper the Accrington Gazette in 1896.


Explanatory notes written from first-hand research by George W. Randall. 
This Blog is part of the George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive 
on the life of  Sir George Bullough, Bt., and his late Victorian/Edwardian 
Highland home, Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, Scotland.

Illustrated with a selection of images from the twenty volume photographic record
of the three year-long tour in the library at Kinloch Castle, copies of all 
six hundred plus of which are in the George W. Randall Archive.


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CAPE TOWN, LOOKING EAST
Album VIII  *  One of four on page 14  *  Size of each 3½ x 2 inches
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Album VIII  *  One of four on page 21  *  Size of each 3½ x 2 inches
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Thirteen years in the building the Fort was constructed by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679 and remains the oldest colonial building in South Africa.
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Brown's South Africa: A Practical and Complete Guide for the Use of Tourists 1893

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POSTED BY GEORGE W. RANDALL WEDNESDAY 2 MAY 2018

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