This photo was taken just outside Lüderitz in the southern part of Namibia. Kolmanskop was a diamond mining settelement founded in1908 when a German found diamonds in the desert. Today the buildings still left, shows what a comfortable life the inhabitants had: casino, bowling alley, theatre, school, hospital and even their own ice making factory. Also they had a tram, said to be the first in Africa. They had people sweeping the streets for sand....every day!
In the early1950s people started to move away. New and larger diamond areas were found further south. The miners and their families followed. They left Kolmanskop and many of their things behind. The sand took over and filled the houses with sand.
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