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Past Masters Series

  • 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
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Richard Thomas Hall - Railwayman in a Remote Part of the Colony
  • Patrick Fletcher - Versatile Pioneer
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • Charles Davidson Bell - Renaissance Man at the Cape
  • George Pilkington - The Elderly Gentleman Who Kept up The Good Work
  • Thomas Charles John Bain - One of South Africa's greatest engineers
  • Murrell Robinson Robinson - Dedicated Public Servant
  • Henry Fancourt White - Pass-builder Remembered by Golfers

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From our Archive

  • This is the story of how and why I became the author of "Die Jeppe Story" by Herbert A. Peschel
  • The dark history behind the Oriental Plaza
  • Why we should observe Remembrance Day in South Africa
  • History is not for the Sensitive - HASA comments on the Rhodes Statue Saga
  • Photographers active in Pretoria - First 60 years (1855-1915)
  • A lifetime's obsession with Jock of the Bushveld
  • Sandton's Forgotten Monument
  • The South African baboon that became a war hero
  • 'One of our few remaining links with a bygone Johannesburg'
  • The restoration of the Workers' Cottages in Newtown
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 3)
  • Inside Village Walk Sandton
  • An opportunity to purchase an original Johannesburg Title Deed
  • Visiting the Historic Williston Cemetery
  • The Henry Charles Hull Story: Law, Politics and Mining in Early Johannesburg

From the Directory

  • Heritage Monitoring Project (HMP)
  • Melville Residents Association (MRA)
  • Past Experiences
  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
  • 3DSS Laser Scanning Services
  • Van Biljon Barnardo Architects
  • Magaliesberg Association for Cultural Heritage (MACH)
  • Architects Boers Associates
  • Parkmore Community Association (PCA)
  • David Manning Stained Glass
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