SOUTH AFRICA
SEE ALSO:
PORT ELIZABETH / DELAGOA BAY / DURBAN
GEORGE BULLOUGH - WORLD TOUR 1892 – 1895
Written and researched by George W. Randall co-founder in July 1996 and former
Vice Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends' Association.
Article 23 of 28 * Published in the
Accrington Gazette on the 24th of October 1896.
Time of visit: August / September 1893.
Mazambique Telegraph Stations:
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SEE ALSO:
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CAPE COLONY - SOUTHERN
AFRICA 1875.
Cape
Town to Port Natal (Durban) by sea 800 nautical miles.
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KINLOCH CASTLE, ISLE OF RUM, SCOTLAND.
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PORT ELIZABETH (DETAIL)
Album VIII * Image 22 * Original photograph by B. W. Caney, Durban.  
PORT ELIZABETH (DETAIL)
Album VIII * Image 22
Detail from
original photograph by B. W. Caney, Durban.  
PORT ELIZABETH (DETAIL)
Album VIII * Image 22
Detail from
original photograph by B. W. Caney, Durban.  
OSTRICH FARM TRANSVAAL
Album IX * Image 26 * Detail from original (oval) 7½ x 5¾ inches.   >> << >> << >> << >> <<>> << >> << >> << >> <<  Album VIII * Image 23 * Size 8 x 6 inches.
Original photograph by B. W. Caney, Durban.
The building on
the corner right is the Post Office, further down the street
are the premises of E. Lloyd, & Company, Stationers.
“The main street runs up from the harbour to the market place
which
is adorned with a handsome granite obelisk.”
BELOW: Two images from the above photograph highlighting detail ... ...
PORT ELIZABETH (DETAIL)
Album VIII * Image 23 * Detail from original - size 8 x 6 inches.
Original photograph by B. W. Caney, Durban.
 Album VIII * Image 23 * Detail from original - size 8 x 6 inches.
Original photograph by B. W. Caney, Durban.
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Album IX * Image 3 * Oval size 7½
x 5¾ inches. Vessels regularly grounded on the treacherous sand bank.   Album VIII * Image 5 * Detail.   laid in 1856 under the direction of engineer John Milne
utilising a wooden rail track. On 26 June 1860 the first passenger carrying
railway in South Africa became operational linking Durban with Harbour Point. Sadly Bluff Rock no longer exists except as a pile of rocks. For hundreds of thousands of years this sandstone natural wonder "stood proudly at the Bluff Headland" only to become a casualty of the needs of war when it was dynamited in the 1940's by the South African War Department to clear a light path for searchlights during World War II.  
Album IX * Image 1 * Size 8 x 6 inches.
The port opened
in 1870 and lies at the mouth of the Buffalo River. Construction of East London
Harbour began six years later along with the region’s railway infrastructure.
EAST LONDON (DETAIL)
Album IX * Image 1 * Detail from original above - size 8 x 6 inches.
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WEST
STREET DURBAN (Original by B. W. Caney, Durban)
Album IX *
Image 6 * Size 8 x 6 inches
Natal was
annexed to the Cape of Good Hope in 1845.
West Street and the leafy suburb of Westville, Durban, are named after Sir Martin West, first civil administrator and Lieutenant Governor of Natal, appointed 1 December, 1845, assisted in government by an Executive Council of five.
Born in England in 1804, he became a servant of the British East India Company at Bombay, India, but was forced to retire on the grounds of ill-health.
He held the post of Resident Magistrate at Grahamstown, 355 miles south-south-west of Durban prior to being becoming Governor of Natal.
Sir Martin's underlying ill health led to his premature death aged forty-four years in 1849 to be succeeded by Benjamin C. C. Pine.
  
DELAGOA EASTERN TELEGRAPH (1879)
Album IX * Image 12 * Detail from original size 6 x 4 inches
The Eastern
Telegraph was a mostly owned and operated British Company.
The
Marconi stations at Delagoa Bay were located at Rubea Point and
Inhaca (island).*
The
first telegraph line in Natal was opened in 1873. In 1878 communication was established with Cape Town and in 1879 with Delagoa Bay. * List of Wireless/Telegraph Stations of the World - Government Printing Office, Washington 1907.
 Album IX * Image 13 * Size 6 x 4 inches
The Portuguese town
of Lourenço Marques was founded in 1850; it was described as “a poor place, with narrow streets, fairly good flat-roofed
houses, grass huts, decayed forts and a rusty cannon, enclosed by a recently erected wall six feet high and
protected by bastions at intervals.
In December 1876 it
was raised to village status as the growing strength of neighbouring Transvaal awakened
the Portuguese Government to drain the surrounding marshy land, plant gum trees and build a
hospital and church … …”
 BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF DELAGOA BAY Album IX * Image 11 * Size 6 x 4 inches
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REFERENCES:
Natal - The Land
and Its Story - Robert Russell 1894
Natal: An
Illustrated Official Railway Guide and Handbook -
Charles Harrison 1903
The Annals of
Natal: 1495 to 1845 - John Bird 1888
South
Africa - A Modern History - T. H. H. Davenport 1977
Last
Outpost on the Zulu Frontier - Graham Dominy 2006
Encyclopædia
Britannica 9th and 11th Editions
George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive - 1992 - 2018
List of Wireless/Telegraph Stations of the World - Government Printing Office, Washington 1907 |
* Zulu Conquered – The March of the Red Soldiers 1828 to 1884 - Ron Lock 2010 *
* Highly recommended
POSTED 9 MAY 2018
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