Photograph: Pinetown
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Alfred Charles Barker
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One landscape black and white photograph depicting a view of a building with the words 'Murrays Hotel' written on the side. A flag on the building appears to have been outlined in pen on the photograph. An inscription below the photograph reads: "Pinetown-Natal, S. Africa." Page 71 of album two.
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The hotel was first built for Archibald Keir Murray in 1851. Murray was from Glasgow and arrived in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal) in 1850. He was a founder of Pinetown and gave it this name. In 1879 the hotel was sold to R H Turner.
- B. Wattrus
Posted on 17-04-2020 01:37:47