Kimberley Town

 I am done with the second part of my Decades Challenge. It took me roughly three months to complete. 

A number of the builds you will see on this lot, are based on the actual buildings that forms part of the museum in Kimberley. 

I hope you will enjoy the tour with me. 

First I will give you a bird's eye view of the lot. (Still building in Newcrest only. )

Clicking on the pics will give you a larger view.

I will share the church with you in this post. 

I was inspired by this picture (Credit to GettyImages):

And also this picture (credit to dreamstime):

And off to my own build:

I did not have any pictures for the interior of the church, so had to use my own imagination. 

Interesting fact about how Kimberley got it's name in the cut below:

Naming the place: from Vooruitzigt to New Rush to Kimberley[edit]

Colonial Commissioners arrived in New Rush on 17 November 1871 to exercise authority over the territory on behalf of the Cape Governor. Digger objections and minor riots led to Governor Barkly's visit to New Rush in September the following year, when he revealed a plan instead to have Griqualand West proclaimed a Crown Colony. Richard Southey would arrive as Lieutenant-Governor of the intended Crown Colony in January 1873. Months passed however without any sign of the proclamation or of the promised new constitution and provision for representative government. The delay was in London where Secretary of State for the Colonies, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, insisted that before electoral divisions could be defined, the places had to receive "decent and intelligible names. His Lordship declined to be in any way connected with such a vulgarism as New Rush and as for the Dutch name, Vooruitzigt … he could neither spell nor pronounce it."^[7]:115 The matter was passed to Southey who gave it to his Colonial Secretary J.B. Currey. Roberts writes that "when it came to renaming New Rush, [Currey] proved himself a worthy diplomat. He made quite sure that Lord Kimberley would be able both to spell and pronounce the name of the main electoral division by, as he says, calling it 'after His Lordship'." New Rush became Kimberley, by Proclamation dated 5 July 1873

Credit: Wikipedia