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Newtown Cooling Towers

  • Newtown Cooling Towers - Preserve or Demolish?

From our Archive

  • The British Hit Parade Before the Beatles
  • The War of 1812 - A needless war perhaps?
  • Markhams' battle for survival
  • Somerset House's dusty, musty basement
  • Is it still worth planning?
  • James Bisset - Bringing Mass Transport to the Suburbs
  • How horses saved besieged Ladysmith
  • A hundred years ago: St John’s College, Johannesburg, in 1920
  • Joburg's oldest surviving bank building is coming back to life!
  • Finding Job Maseko - It is not Masego, it is Maseko
  • Early Potchefstroom-based photographers (1850s to 1920s)
  • The Colosseum - From a Cinema Fantasy of the Thirties to Modern apartment living in Johannesburg
  • Visiting the Historic Harrismith Cemetery
  • The Naming of Johannesburg
  • Visiting the Historic Palmietkuil South War Cemetery

From the Directory

  • Charles Thomas - Antique Furniture Restorers
  • Glassworks
  • Gateway Stained Glass
  • Collectors Treasury
  • Johannesburg Urban Forest Alliance (JUFA)
  • Andre Vercueil Consulting Architects & Heritage Practitioner
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Dr Dean Allen - Author Lecturer Historian
  • Makana Residents' Association
  • Cornelius Lehr Antiquarian Horologist
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