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Materials History

  • No other building materials have advanced the built environment as much as steel and concrete
  • A Short History of Steel
  • Corrugated Irony - A Short History of the Tin Roof

From our Archive

  • Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
  • Obituary for Clive Michael Chipkin
  • Old Malmesbury Mission Church Complex - A question of sustainability
  • Markhams Building and the Cape Town Connection
  • Kippies, the club that wasn't there
  • Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
  • Racing in the shadows of mine dumps: Black African cycle sport on South Africa's gold mines in the apartheid era
  • The rise of railway preservation in Britain
  • Celebrating Flo Bird - 80 Years of a Remarkable Life
  • The Barnato Park Story
  • Frescura, with good reason, suggests that conservation in South Africa is a disaster
  • The German Churches of Northern KwaZulu-Natal
  • Commemorating the first public library in South Africa
  • Advice on Wooden Floor Restoration
  • Aerial photographs that tell two stories!

From the Directory

  • Friends of the Rail (FOTR)
  • Chris Taylor Tour Guide
  • Lucille Davie - Jozi Tours and Tales
  • Village Timber
  • Dullstroom Heritage Society
  • Dr Graham Dominy
  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • Kate Otten Architects
  • Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Historical Society of Port Elizabeth
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Recent Posts

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  • Volksrust (Llanwarne/Langwane) - A Transvaal Border Town Through the Eyes of a Deltiologist
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  • Peter Rich, Architect in Search of African Place-Making
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