Cory Library and Historical Archives

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• 14 Miles from Alice on the road to Seymour where the inhabitants of Juanasburg, Woburn and Auckland were massacred on Christmas Day 1850
• 3226DD Alice, Alice 3226DD, Topo-cadastral series, Topo-kadastrale reeks
  3226DD Alice, South Africa 1:50000 sheet. Air photography 1949. Surveyed in 1956 and drawn in 1960 by the Trigonometric Survey Office. T.S.O. 200/1471. (Lugfotogafie 1949, Opgemeet in 1956 en geteken in 1960 deur die Driehokesmatings Kantoor.) First edition.
• 3326AC Alicedale, Alicdle 3326AC, Topo-cadastral series, Topo-kadastrale reeks, South Africa 1:50000 sheet, Suid-Afrika 1:50000 vel
  3226AC Alicedale South Africa 1:50000 sheet. Air photography 1957. Field survey 1962. Drawn by the Trigonometric Survey in 1963. T.S.O. 200/1893. (Lugfotografie 1957. Veldopmeting 1962. Saamgestel en geteken in 1963 deur die Driehokesmatings Kantoor.) First edition
• A soldier's grave at Fort Wiltshire (Willshire)
  In P E Raper's "New Dictionary of South African Place Names", ISBN 1868421902, is this entry, on page 105: *Fort Willshire - Former fort at the confluence of the Keiskamma and Rhwantsana Rivers, 23km south-south-east of Alice, at 32 59S, 26 55E. It was named in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Willshire, veteran of the Peninsular War, who took command in 1819.
• Alice
• Alice at the time of the Royal visit - 1947
• Alice bowling green
• Alice Royal visit horse parade
• Alice Royal visit train station anticipation
• Ann Evans back from UK at Stewart Memorial, Alice
• Bridge near Alice
• Bushy country around Fort Wiltshire (sic)
  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
• Bushy country around Fort Wiltshire (sic)
  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
• East Cape Newspaper office, Alice
• Fort Thomson (near Alice) 1835 near junction of Gaga & Tyumie Rivers
  Named after Lt.-Col. RT Thomson of the Royal Engineers.
• G.E Cory standing inside ruins of Fort Wiltshire (sic)
  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
• Hogsback, near Alice, Ciskei
  Spread of Zantedeschia aethiopica in damp hollow between pine plantations. Buttresses of southern Hogsback peak in distance.
• In Alice for the Royal visit
• Iron Rock Peak as seen from halfway up Hogsback
• Kaffir fare at Fort Wiltshire (sic)
  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.,From 1824 – 1830 weekly trade fairs were held at the Fort, where licensed British Settlers could trade in ivory, hides etc with Xhosa. At first cattle could not be traded, and trade in fire-arms and liquor was forbidden.
• King George IV and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Alice
• Lovedale Institution and Alice
• Lovedale, Alice, South Africa 1:50000 sheet
  Plan of land around Lovedale; some of it marked for "alienation" - owners of some property shown. (Negative) Photograph of origincal manuscript, 1875.
• Lovedale,Plan of Lovedale mission 1902,South Africa 1:50000 sheet
  Plan of Lovedale Mission 1902. Photograph.
• Madonna and Child waterfall Hogsback