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Kensington

  • The Scottish Horse Memorial: Honouring the Fallen in Edinburgh and Johannesburg
  • Blue plaques and a new heritage route for Jeppe Boys
  • The only known 'Herbert Baker' house in Kensington
  • The Origins of Kensington
  • A secret heritage home on the Kensington ridge
  • Melanie Yap - Chinese voice
  • South Africa's forgotten bioscopes
  • A journey into the rich history of the vandalised Scottish Horse Memorial Kensington
  • Joburg’s castles
  • Bez Valley War Memorial to be moved
  • The Destruction of the Bezuidenhout Valley War Memorial
  • Foster Gang: Raiders of the Secret Cave
  • British 'heroes' commemorated in Kensington street names
  • Foster Gang Detective Tells his Story
  • The Scottish Horse Memorial - The story behind one of Johannesburg's earliest war memorials
  • Going Inside the Kensington Castle
  • Memories of my visits to the Kensington Castle
  • Modern Day Mystery - What has happened to the owner of the Kensington Castle?

From our Archive

  • Clive Chipkin - ‘No coherence!’
  • It’s a match! Early Tweddill photograph and portrait painting matched
  • Chinese New Year Lights Up Johannesburg's Derrick Avenue in Cultural Spectacle
  • Our vanishing heritage – South Africa’s top ten endangered sites 2016
  • Re-imagining the Planetarium as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome
  • Secrets of the Brown Family Plot in Brixton Cemetery
  • Clive Chipkin pays tribute to Robin Fee
  • Health Care workers who died from Spanish Flu
  • A few photographs of Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century
  • Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
  • Goodbye Johannesburg, Hello..... (A poem by Mike Alfred)
  • The Forgotten Biscuit King
  • Union Buildings Gardens Vandalised and Neglected
  • When did globalisation really get started?
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 2)

From the Directory

  • WIEW Architects
  • African Centre for Heritage Activities (ACHA)
  • South African Naval Heritage Trust (NHT)
  • Library Special Projects
  • Shaw Badenhorst - Researcher
  • Nuuseum
  • Ship Society
  • Horst Müller - Rural & Urban Exploration
  • Lepogo La Thaba Adventures
  • Hardijzer Photographic Research Collection
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