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Mount Nelson Hotel

  • That famous 21st Birthday broadcast from Cape Town... or was it?

From our Archive

  • Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
  • A short history of the metrication movement in South Africa
  • Africana map collection resurfaces after half a century
  • The Naming of Johannesburg
  • A Short History of the Pepper Tree
  • Why build a majestic villa here?
  • Recording Memories – Camera in hand A Philosophical Reflection
  • How horses saved besieged Ladysmith
  • X Doesn’t Always Mark the Spot: Rediscovering Withington’s Lost Villa
  • Interpreting Historical South African Photographs (1860s – 1970s)
  • A paper on the origins of the original Witwatersrand Gold Fields with special reference to the Witwatersrand Ridge
  • Early Heidelberg through the eyes of a deltiologist
  • The Economy of Potchefstroom 1838-1880
  • A personal tribute to Marcus Holmes
  • Scott Brebnor House Midrand - A remarkable reunion between architect and client

From the Directory

  • Tony Westby-Nunn
  • Brixton Community Forum (BCF)
  • Cape Dutch Quarters
  • Andre Bruton Construction
  • Border Historical Society
  • Western Cape Numismatic Society
  • Limpopo Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA)
  • Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa (VASSA)
  • Norwood Orchards Residents Association (NORA)
  • Digital Rail Images of South Africa (DRISA)
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