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Past Masters Series

  • William Brounger and the Cape Railways
  • Hermann Schutte - Designer of South Africa's First Lighthouse
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • James Cameron - Second City Engineer of Cape Town
  • John Hamilton Wicksteed - The competent young engineer who came to a sad end
  • James Bisset - Bringing Mass Transport to the Suburbs
  • George Pauling - Leading railway contractor in the development of Southern Africa
  • Thomas Stewart - First South African Consulting Engineer
  • John Gamble - Maths Prodigy who Preferred Engineering
  • Sir John Coode - International Harbour Master
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Richard Thomas Hall - Railwayman in a Remote Part of the Colony
  • Patrick Fletcher - Versatile Pioneer
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • Charles Davidson Bell - Renaissance Man at the Cape
  • George Pilkington - The Elderly Gentleman Who Kept up The Good Work
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers
  • Murrell Robinson Robinson - Dedicated Public Servant
  • Henry Fancourt White - Pass-builder Remembered by Golfers

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From our Archive

  • Landmark Potchefstroom building to be sold at auction
  • Life was hard for a woman on the Rand in the early days
  • William Roe (1827-1916) - Long serving Graaff-Reinet based photographer
  • The Lost World of Denver Station
  • Refurbishing the Muizenberg Carnegie Library and Post Office
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • The Audience in the Room: Who is Cape Town's Cultural Heritage For?
  • Johannesburg Sun - Planning Africa's Biggest Hotel
  • The Story Behind the Monument to Petrus Molefe
  • HF Gros and his remarkable collection of early Transvaal Photographs
  • Visiting the Historic Victoria West Cemetery
  • Mai Mai Market - 'The Place of Healers'
  • The Natal Volunteer Indian Ambulance Services in the Boer War - Legend and Reality
  • Village Life - The great magazine that was
  • South African Gates of Yore – A Photographic Portfolio

From the Directory

  • Rod Kruger - Gold Mining Talks and Tours
  • National Heritage Council (NHC)
  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • Hugh Fraser - Guided Tours
  • Joline Young Heritage Consultancy
  • Johannesburg Heritage Foundation (JHF)
  • Heritage Workshop - The Classic Car Specialists
  • Cape Institute for Architecture
  • Gateway Stained Glass
  • Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa (VASSA)
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