Kolmanskuppe Tree and Church!

[Malcolm Bertoni]

Hi Henniek

Alf and I took a tour of Pomona in Nov last year and this is a picture taken of the house with the tree.  It's still there and looks exaclty the same.  Thats one tough tree.

Malcolm

[henniek]

Thanks Malcolm . Agree . it is one tough tree . It looks like a quivertree. You can see by the discolouration of my old pic , that it was taken a long time ago . 1980 .

[Leon Sumter]

this could well be Marianne's childhood home. It seems as if the house was repaired between 1980 and the present. Did'nt our CDM geologists sometimes sleep over in these old Pomona houses when out on prospecting trips.

[Alfred Boehme]

Look at the bottom pic in the book is this the same house and who are the people?

[Leon Sumter]

looks like the same house indeed. The existing tree is one of the original four. Must be the Coleman family in the picture.

[henniek]

an amazing photo of a Pomona family - thanks alfred . but I do not recognise any of them , cross rev to other photos.

[henniek]

The ladies had a very active social club , funds were collected for various charities. they organised wonderful parties . for one such fund raising party they organised a ship's dance . The stage of the rec club was converted to the kaptains cabin . the orchestra sat there playing a variety of lively music . In the middle of the hall was the bridge and the champagne and wine bar  . along the sides the hall there were cubicles used as cabins and saloons with all the necessary decoration trimmings and eats or drinks . On the one side were the delicatessen , sweets , fishcakes , port , etc , and along the oposite wall there was the " sailors " food. Pork , Saurkraut , patatoes, and pea soup. The main floor was for dancing  , every now and again the dance was interupted for the can-can , or other dancing girls to come out to give a cabaret show . This womans club made a fortune for charity , and these events usually lasted two days . There was a bachalor , Arnold - whatever eats were left over was taken to his place , and who ever wanted to join in was welcome to dance to the music from a wind up gramophone . That particular day , when the men had to report for work on Monday morning , some of them turned up still dressed in their sailor outfits and caps !

[henniek]

Pomona was originally called "Pomonaforte" as it was located on the entrance to many other valeys , eg Idastahl- named after Agust Stauch' s wife , Marianne & Katie tahl - his two daugters . Stauch lager , Hexenkessel and Scheibestahl. I think there must have been about 300 germans working there and about the same number of migrants. Work hours on the mine was 9 hours every day for six days a week , with only special days like easter - christmas , new year etc off . In the early days Church services was held in the school building . we even had a house specially reserved for officials when they visit . it was called the hotel !
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Well there you have it Michael - At Pomona: -so far we managed to see proof of a tree and also found out that church services were held . But what about Kolmans ? trees and chuches ? 

[Alfred Boehme]

Collection of Kolmanskop photo's enjoy

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[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Nice...love this.