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Barnett Collection

  • Barnett's Views of Johannesburg and Suburbs - A window on the world that was early Johannesburg

From our Archive

  • Johannesburg 1936... Keeping an eye out for souvenir survivals
  • Bygone fortune seeker and rail restauranteur Theodor Fiebiger
  • Modern British-Built Trams for Johannesburg’s British Empire Exhibition in 1936
  • Secrets of the Brown Family Plot in Brixton Cemetery
  • From the ashes of South Africa's worst earthquake rise the old buildings of Tulbagh
  • Old Town Halls Never Die
  • William Cuthbert Holloway - The Soldier who Built a Splendid Mountain Road
  • The Execution of Christian Woite
  • Zonderwater - Almost certainly the Largest Allied POW Camp in the World
  • Rider Haggard - Lost in Pretoria?
  • The Bokoni of Mpumalanga
  • Roaming the Western Cape Rails
  • The Big Fiery Giant - The Story of the Beyer-Garratt Locomotive
  • The Buildings of C. H. Thrupp and Company over the Decades
  • Oscar Wilhelm Alric Forssman - Wealthy man who suffered devastating losses

From the Directory

  • Adroit Architects & Interiors
  • ICOMOS SA
  • Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA)
  • Heritage Railway Association of South Africa (HRASA)
  • Bryanston East Community Forum (BECF)
  • Morbid Musings - Marie-Louise Rouget
  • Heritage Western Cape (HWC)
  • Reach Archaeology Consulting
  • Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents Association (SAPRA)
  • Michael Hart Architects & Urban Designers
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