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Historic Lighthouses

  • Hermann Schutte - Designer of South Africa's First Lighthouse
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Murrell Robinson Robinson - Dedicated Public Servant
  • A Short History of the Cape St Francis Lighthouse

From our Archive

  • Two cemetery buildings illegally demolished
  • Cape Gauge - From Ox-wagon to Iron Horse
  • What happened to the Van Wouw House?
  • The Contemporary Accounts of the Victorian Railways of Britain
  • Concerns over Longest Avenue of Oak Trees in South Africa
  • Visiting the Historic Palmietkuil South War Cemetery
  • Joubert Park In Danger - Herbert Prins Speaks Out
  • Nighttime at the Johannesburg Zoo (and some history)
  • Saintly Sights - Pre 1900s Missionary Photography in South Africa - An Interview
  • Deep-level mining photography: The Elusive Neilson Brothers demystified - with additional information on James Wilbur Read
  • South Africa's Tallest Building in 1933
  • Tunnel at Waterval Boven - Probably the best-known and most famous of all NZASM structures
  • Cleaning the Joburg Cenotaph - Before, During and After
  • 'One of our few remaining links with a bygone Johannesburg'
  • Onze Molen - Durbanville's link with the past

From the Directory

  • Gauteng Institute for Architecture (GIfA) Heritage Committee
  • Old Pretoria East Residents and Ratepayers Alliance (OPERRA)
  • Digital Rail Images of South Africa (DRISA)
  • Bela Bela Heritage
  • Historic Building Consultants
  • Knysna Historical Society
  • Friends of the Knysna Libraries
  • Parnell Bruce and Classique Edge Racing
  • Charles Thomas - Antique Furniture Restorers
  • Van Biljon Barnardo Architects
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