1910
Main Street, Mbabane
Photographer: Unknown
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 78
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Mbabane, c 1910. Allister Miller
Street, possibly looking northwards.
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1910's
Bishop Watts
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 411
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Rev. Christopher Watts founded St
Marks School in 1910 and left in 1921. A hugely dynamic and well liked man, he
rode to places like the Komati to pick up the children for his school. On
leaving Swaziland, where he had been a priest, he was made Bishop of
Damaraland. He wrote "Dawn in Swaziland" in 1922.
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1910's
St Marks Kids
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 452
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Rev. Christopher Watts started St
Marks in 1910 as a school for white children. He started another for coloured
children at Mpolonjeni. Watts is on the far left in a dog collar. He appears to
wear the same jacket in all photos of him in eleven years at St marks. He went
on to become Bishop of Damaraland.
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1910's
St Marks, Bishop Watts
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 454
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Rev. Christopher Watts (in dog
collar) with assorted staff and students at St Marks School which he founded in
1910 and left in 1921 to become Bishop of Damaraland. He was a dynamic and
charismatic man, often riding for days to fetch students to his school.
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1910's/1920's
St Marks Kids
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 453
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The children of St Marks School
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1910s
Lomawa
Photographer: Unknown
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 77
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King Sobhuza II's mother, of the
Nxumalo Ndwandwe clan.
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1912
Unknown Gold Mine
Photographer: Unknown
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 34
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Probably Forbes Reef, but unknown.
Legends still exist in the Forbes Reef area about a chest of gold at the bottom
of the large adit (hole). When you try to take it out you are run over by a
train.
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1917
Labotsibeni and Buxton
Photographer: Unknown
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 54
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Lord Buxton (British High
Commissioner) at the visit of the High Commissioner to Swaziland, 13 September
1917. Ndlovukazi Labotsibeni Mdluli was King Sobhuza II's parternal
grandmother. She was also known as Gwamile, or Mgwami, from the verb
"gwamile", meaning to stand firm and unshakable, to be indomitable,
adamant. She was commemorated in 1975, International Women's Year.
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1917
Piggs Peak Easter 1917
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 498
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Original caption is "Easter
1917". Henry Anton Holtman on left, the seated dowager in watered black
silk is possibly Miss Bayliss.
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1918
Mbabane
Photographer: Unknown
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 33
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Mbabane from the Fonteyn Hills. Note
the large area of white where the Mall shopping centre now is. This is the
eroded soil, washed from the hills during tin mining. Extensive canals brought
water for miles to gravity power huge pits that literally washed the hillsides
away, leaving the heavy nodules of tin. Allister Miller is the horizontal road,
with Gilfillan St, heading off diagonally to the right.
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