Witbank (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Item
A coal mine at Witbank, Tvl [Transvaal], 1925
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/177
Scope and Contents
191 x 140 mm. Showing mine buildings at Wilbank, the main coalfields centre of the Province. It was in the workings of a local colliery at Wilbank that Winston Churchill hid after his escape from a prisoner of war camp in Pretoria during the South African War.
Dates:
1925
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