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Blockhouses

  • Our Forgotten Heritage – The Beleaguered Blockhouses
  • When a Provincial Heritage Site is so desecrated one must question how they should be protected
  • Types of Blockhouses in South Africa
  • One of the most remarkable fortification-building projects in the military history of South Africa (if not the world)
  • Barberton Blockhouse Cleaned and Secured
  • Blockhouses of the South African War

From our Archive

  • Saving the Rissik Street Post Office from destruction by fire!
  • Magistrates’ Courts – blasts, apartheid and art
  • The Tanzania - Zambia Railway
  • We need to reclaim our Hillbrow tower
  • Johannesburg in a lithograph circa 1937 - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 1)
  • London Buses were Red except when they were Green
  • Johannesburg’s mayors
  • From Drawing Boards to Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  • The easy life of Doris Mosikele
  • Embellishing an icon - Artists and the Union Buildings
  • Visiting the Military Garden of Remembrance at Polokwane
  • Looking Out Over the Highest Yew Hedge in the World
  • The Rebirth of the Germiston Carnegie Library
  • Victorian-era Banknotes of Towns of the South Western Cape
  • Student in Trouble - Protesting against Apartheid in the 1950s

From the Directory

  • Alberton Heritage Society
  • Hermanus History Society
  • formula D_ - Museum Planners and Heritage Consultants
  • FutureHistories
  • Five Hundred Year Archive Project
  • Francois Johannes Cleophas - Sport Historian
  • Erica Davison THL
  • Andy Selfe - Millwright
  • The Conservation Studio - Albany Museum
  • Heritage Western Cape (HWC)
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  • Volksrust (Llanwarne/Langwane) - A Transvaal Border Town Through the Eyes of a Deltiologist
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