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Engineering History

  • William Brounger - Forward into the Interior
  • 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
  • Adam De Smidt - Gentlemanly Engineer in a tough environment
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Patrick Fletcher - Versatile Pioneer
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 2)
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 1)
  • George Pilkington - The Elderly Gentleman Who Kept up The Good Work
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers

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From our Archive

  • Exploring the Syringa Tree
  • The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
  • Unique bus shelter restored and celebrated
  • An intriguing century old pamphlet of the 1913 Mineworkers Strike
  • Robert Sobukwe - The shaping of an Africanist at Healdtown Mission Institute
  • Surveying the buildings of Paarl (in 1980)
  • Obituary: Nicolas Bauman (1952-2025)
  • Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Report - December 2012
  • Victorian-era Banknotes of Towns of the South Western Cape
  • Mayibuye planned a massive onslaught
  • The story behind the South African Scottish Memorial
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • The system has failed to achieve its purpose
  • NZASM Structures of the Southern Line
  • Stuttafords to be fashionable once again

From the Directory

  • Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
  • PGS Heritage
  • Brian McKechnie - Architect & Heritage Consultant
  • Durban Walking Tours
  • Past Experiences
  • Durban Art Deco Society
  • WIEW Architects
  • Peter Glendinning
  • Clare Chappel Urban Designer, Architect, Storyteller
  • University of Cape Town - Conservation and the Built Environment
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