FAURESMITH ON THE DIAMOND TRIAL TO KIMBERLEY

This little southern Free State town where some of my great parents' family was baptized in the impressive white NG Church parish (read Nether Dutch) in the background, is situated between the Koffiefontein- and Jagersfontein diamond mines.(See my Blog elsewhere for Jagesrsfontein's diamonds of the DEBEER's diamond company). My father,Barend Petrus de Beer, who was a steam train driver, told us many stories about international photographers who took pictures of his steam engine in the middle of the town's main street. Amazingly, no accidents were reported in the years that my father steamed through this little town...