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Peter Ball

  • Dean Goods: The Little Engine That Went To War
  • The Contemporary Accounts of the Victorian Railways of Britain
  • Marylebone - The Station that Refused to Die
  • Oxford to Cambridge: The Revival of Britain's Varsity Line
  • The HS2 Dilemma: Learning from 200 Years of British Railway History
  • The rise of railway preservation in Britain
  • The Original High Speed Rail - The Great Western Main Line between London & Bristol
  • Winston’s War – The Valiant Years
  • Mr. Bellman’s Hangar
  • Separated by a Common Language
  • Railway Modelling, a hobby that lasts a lifetime
  • The British Hit Parade Before the Beatles
  • Electrification of Railways - Battle of the Systems
  • South African Railways – the years of transition from steam
  • The Mainline Railway Termini of London
  • London Buses were Red except when they were Green
  • Dr. Beeching, Hero or Villain?
  • From Drawing Boards to Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  • STEEL, When Iron Came of Age
  • The Railway that put the World on Track

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From our Archive

  • William Smith and The Indweans
  • A short history of Gerard Moerdyk's first church
  • The Epic March of 7 000 Zulu Workers
  • Fort Pine - Place of refuge after the battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
  • Somerset West Loses an Iconic Heritage Building - The demolition of Blue Waters and the questions it leaves behind
  • Carl von Brandis - The Father of Johannesburg
  • Hollard saves Arcadia (in 2004) and gets the best view around
  • A Short Masterclass on Boundary Walls
  • Cleaning the Joburg Cenotaph - Before, During and After
  • Streaks of Rust Across the Veld - The Demise of the Branch Lines
  • Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
  • That secret Johannesburg canal and stream
  • A Chance in a Million - Identical photographs found on different continents
  • Modderfontein's Grand Mansion
  • Mostert's Mill - The Sole Survivor

From the Directory

  • Sibambene Bolt Heritage Construction
  • Chris Taylor Tour Guide
  • Greater Vredehoek Heritage Action Group
  • Muizenberg Heritage
  • Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Bruce Eitzen - New World Associates Landscape Architects
  • Joburg Photowalkers
  • Parkmore Community Association (PCA)
  • Friends of Horwoods Farm
  • Kenton-on-Sea Ratepayers Association (KOSRA)
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