Art Treasures of Kinloch Castle: PRETORIA, JOHANNESBURG, KIMBERLEY DIAMOND MINES * GEORGE BULLOUGH - WORLD TOUR 1892

PRETORIA - JOHANNESBURG
KIMBERLEY DIAMOND MINES

GEORGE BULLOUGH - WORLD TOUR 1892 - 1895

Written from first-hand researched by George W. Randall, co-founder in July 1996 and former Vice Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends' Association.

KIMBERLEY MINE

Album X * Image 11 * Size 8 x 6 inches.

Article 28 of 28 * Published in the Accrington Gazette on the 12^th of December 1896.
Time of visit September/October 1893.

Opening paragraphs from Accrington Gazette
12^th of December 1896

Article twenty-eight concludes the published recollections of the 1892-1895 world tour made by

George Bullough, (later Sir George, Baronet, Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, Scotland)

and his travelling companion, Robert Mitchell

in the local Lancashire newspaper the

Accrington Gazette in 1896.

Comprehensive explanatory notes written from

first-hand research by George W. Randall,

with illustrations from

“Diamond Mining in the Kimberley Field”

by Charles V. Allen, published 1903,
are to be found at the end of the article.

The book can be viewed on Google

using the link below:

Diamond mining in the Kimberley field and the mechanical equipment ...

Despite searching later editions of the

Accrington Gazette no further reports of

Bullough and Mitchell's travels have been found.

The twenty photographic albums in the Library

at Kinloch Castle contain over six hundred images of the world in the latter half of the 19^th century.

The twenty-eight Accrington Gazette reports on my Blog have brought us as far as Album X,
covering India, Ceylon, Australia and South Africa.

The remaining ten albums cover New Zealand, Tasmania, Honolulu, New Caledonia, China, Hong Kong, Japan - which are in colour,
Singapore, San Francisco, Yosemite and
Salt Lake City, with Album XIII titled: Natives of Australia and South Africa,
including several of Mr. John Dunn, born in Port Elizabeth or Port Natal c.1833.

Orphaned in his early teens, disillusioned after being betrayed and robbed by his employer in his first job as a transport rider at age sixteen, he withdrew into the Zulu world he had grown up alongside and the language he had spoken from childhood ... John Dunn turned “native”.

Reputed to have had “forty wives of various colours”, Dunn was on good terms with the Zulu King, Cetshwayo kaMpande, and played an intermediary and important role

in events following the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879

John Dunn led an amazing life ... ... ...

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