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Cemeteries

  • Some Angel and Cherub Statues in Braamfontein Cemetery
  • Brixton's First Blue Plaque
  • Tracing Cape Rebels from Colesberg to Uniondale
  • Visiting the Military Garden of Remembrance at Polokwane
  • Visiting the Historic Palmietkuil South War Cemetery
  • Vandalised headstones in Brixton Cemetery
  • Secrets of the Brown Family Plot in Brixton Cemetery
  • Mystery of Braamfontein's arched grave solved!
  • Solving the riddle of the site of all the late 1938 to early 1940s burials in the Brixton Cemetery
  • The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa
  • Solving the Mystery Behind "Grannie's Grave" in Braamfontein Cemetery
  • A Short History of Talana Farm Cemetery
  • Locating the Victims of the 1922 Rand Revolt
  • Visiting historic Hanover via Springfontein
  • The Unfinished Story of the Hardekraaltjie Cemetery
  • Battlefields Route – Koppies to Kroonstad
  • Two cemetery buildings illegally demolished
  • Visiting the historic St Paul’s Anglican Church and Graveyard
  • Visiting the Historic Bultfontein Cemetery
  • Visiting the historic Brook Street Cemetery, Durban

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From our Archive

  • Anglo-Boer War sketches, Magic Lanterns and the Lanternist
  • Only this cemetery remains as a stark reminder of an uprooted community
  • Valuable octant found on beach
  • Limit State Design of Buildings and the Preservation Engineer
  • A flag for the Con Court, with help from an elephant
  • The town that plague built
  • Windybrow and Theodore Reunert
  • Pretoria Railway Station depicted on early Picture Postcards
  • Inner City Tourism Booming
  • The Story Behind the Oudstryders Monument
  • World Heritage Committee concerned about climate change
  • Peers the Artist - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 2)
  • Saving the Rissik Street Post Office from destruction by fire!
  • The House that Dynamite Built
  • The fascinating story behind one of Sandton's oldest shops

From the Directory

  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • Modderfontein Conservation Society
  • Sticky Situations
  • ICOMOS SA
  • Beyond Heritage
  • PGS Heritage
  • Charles Thomas - Antique Furniture Restorers
  • Francois Johannes Cleophas - Sport Historian
  • Jeremy Hazell Universal Access Consultant
  • Rietondale Homeowners and Residents Association (RHOARA)
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Recent Posts

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