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Napier (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Kiwis at Napier Fish hatchery, 1948

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/88
Scope and Contents

70 x 50 mm. View of three kiwis, and one egg.

Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Maritzburg [i.e. Pietermaritzburg] from Fort Napior [Napier], 1879 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058A/15
Scope and Contents 195 x 128 mm. A view from Fort Napier, situated on a hill south-west of the town, looking down on to the neatly laid out tree shaded streets of Pietermaritzburg. With a field gun pointing out over the town from behind earthwork fortifications in the foreground. The garrison at Fort Napier was the only concentration of forces in the colony in the months before the war, and it was these depleted defences, together with the ease with which a Zulu army might cross the undefended Buffalo River...
Dates: 1879 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Napier Aerodrome, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/162
Scope and Contents

72 x 67 mm. A parked plane, with a man in the foreground.

Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).