Wayside Store and Hotel, Forbes Reef, 1910 - 1911
Scope and Contents
208 x 156 mm. Showing the Forbes Reef Hotel ('Walter Bros. Proprietors'), a long single storied building with a wooden trelliswork veranda and corrugated iron roof. Beside it stands the stores, a small circular hut with thatched roof. The town (now abandoned) was named after Alex Forbes, who discovered gold in the region in the late 1870s. It is situated about 15 miles west of Mbabane.
Dates
- Creation: 1910 - 1911
Creator
- From the Fonds: Great Britain. Colonial Office. Visual Instruction Committee (Organization)
- From the Fonds: Fisher, Alfred Hugh, 1867 -1945 (artist and photographer) (Person)
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Biographical / Historical
Photographer unknown.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Good condition.
General
PJ. This additional information was supplied by Huw M. Jones. Charles Walters established a store at the Forbes Reef Hotel about 1899. The hotel and store were in the main building. In the photograph and the rondavel on the right was the house. He was a prospector who cleaned the tailings from the Forbes Reef Battery, and extracted some gold in 1898. In 1899, Walters discovered tin at Forbes Reef but it was not exploited commercially. He was also the Pund Master of Embabaan (Mbabane) District before the Anglo-Boer War. Walters was back after the war with his brother, Edward, prospecting and trading.
Originator(s)
Unknown
Finding aid date
2002-10-23 16:07:38+00:00
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