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Gone but not Forgotten

  • Five homes in bohemian Parktown
  • Huntington Hall destroyed by fire
  • Potchefstroom railway station destroyed by fire
  • Gone but not forgotten - The landmark Barlow Fountain
  • The Top Star Drive-in Saga
  • Remembering the 'Eiffel Tower of the Rand'
  • 'One of our few remaining links with a bygone Johannesburg'
  • Ten Forgotten Buildings of Johannesburg
  • Destroyed ERPM Mining Village - Some practical thoughts
  • Remembering an Act of 'Utter Barbarism' in Port Elizabeth
  • Remembering Bryanston's Grand Hunting Estate
  • Norman House - Gone but not forgotten
  • What was the Crystal Palace?
  • Gone but not Forgotten - Johannesburg's oldest Mosque
  • The Battle to Save the Colosseum Theatre
  • Inside Village Walk Sandton
  • Inside Sutton Place Sandton
  • Inside Chadrien Place Sandton

From our Archive

  • Looking back on the restoration of the majestic Reserve Bank Building
  • Early Ethno-Photography and the Picture Postcard - A South African perspective
  • In the wreck of the Haerlem
  • One day back in '63 at Liliesleaf
  • Early Middelburg through the eyes of two deltiologists
  • From the ashes of South Africa's worst earthquake rise the old buildings of Tulbagh
  • Registrar in Trouble - Saving the life of an anti-apartheid activist
  • The Cemetery at Winkelhaak Mine
  • Houghton, Orange Grove, Killarney, Mayfair and Greenside get blue plaques!
  • Much More than a Mafia: Mavericks, Mentors, and Medical Maestros. The considerable contribution of St John’s College to Medicine
  • In the Footsteps of Captain Charles Michell - 3/60th Regiment (King's Royal Rifles)
  • The Royal Navy in Hermanus in 1961
  • Snapshot Photography - Automobiles photographed in South Africa from the 1920s to 1960s
  • Remarkable historic documents emerge at Hilton auction
  • Raw material for the study of the transition from Boer administration to colonial British management

From the Directory

  • Friends of Alberts Farm
  • Heritage Potchefstroom Erfenis
  • Middelburg Karoo Tourism
  • Joline Young Heritage Consultancy
  • Friends of Horwoods Farm
  • South African Society of Archivists
  • Francois Johannes Cleophas - Sport Historian
  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • Johannesburg Heritage Foundation (JHF)
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
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