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Palace Buildings

  • Remembering the 'Eiffel Tower of the Rand'
  • The Record Breakers - Johannesburg's Tallest Buildings over time

From our Archive

  • British 'heroes' commemorated in Kensington street names
  • South Africa mourns a heritage champion
  • Railways from War's End to Union (1902-1910)
  • A Royal Rapport, How the Windsors met a Hohenzollern in Queenstown
  • The Author and the Archaeologist - Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan
  • Valuable octant found on beach
  • The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa
  • Some Reminisces of Malmesbury
  • Thomas Stewart - First South African Consulting Engineer
  • Jan Smuts and the Indweans
  • Dolobran mansion sits smugly among Baker's Joburg icons
  • Southern Africa from above: Aerial Photography – A historical overview
  • Johannesburg panoramas – a tour of note with Chipkin and Munro
  • Questions on the origins of the name 'Witwatersrand'
  • Water, water... everywhere - Johannesburg's streams and rivers

From the Directory

  • Agora Consulting
  • KZN Family History Society
  • LM Architects and Heritage Consultants
  • Muckleneuk Lukasrand Property Owners and Residents Association (MLPORA)
  • Archival Platform
  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • Models n Maps
  • Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA)
  • Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA)
  • Cape Institute for Architecture
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