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Date: 1899 Type: Recreation Centre Status: Extant

The official opening of the Rooipoort Shooting Box was on Thursday 10 August 1899. The site for the Shooting Box, close to a spring, was chosen by William Pickering, Secretary of De Beers Consolidated Mines. Tenders for the building of the Shooting Box were advertised in either late 1898 or early 1899, and General Manager Gardner Williams accepted the tender of Messrs John Dickson and John A Mackenzie. The entire Shooting Box had been imported by ship from England in kit form and transported to the farm by ox wagon. Source: kimberley.org.za