TOPIC:

This may be close to where the picture was taken from. 107 Church Street is just to the left.

www.google.com/maps/@-29.6062838,30.3733...w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Henry Wade had a jewellery shop in PMB until 1933.

Sadly, I think all the obvious splendour of those days has gone forever.

A muster of the Town Guard at Pietermaritzburg



Pietermaritzburg has been preparing for all eventualities and if the Boers had attacked the town, which at one time appeared to be likely, they would have found the people quite ready for them. Our illustration which is from a photograph by S S Watkinson, shows the muster of the Town Guard on Sunday, the 5th ult.

Source The Graphic, 16 December 1899

ILH arriving at Pietermaritzburg station

Source: ILN 25 November 1899

The Pietermaritzburg Concentration Camp, where 216 Boers, mainly children, died.
Their names are recorded here: www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/DiedInCamp/6...Pietermaritzburg_RC/

Pietermaritzburg Home Guard Rifle Association in the Market Square

Source ILN 23 December 1899