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  • Grandma's Notes - Life at the beginning of the 20th Century
  • Stories from a Diamond Mine - The Early Days

From our Archive

  • Wupperthal - From Fire to Restoration
  • Onze Molen - Durbanville's link with the past
  • Restoring one of Parktown's Greatest Mansions
  • ‘Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa’: Logan of Matjiesfontein
  • One of the Cape’s most remarkable early mining ventures
  • Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
  • My Caving Story including the survey of the Cango Caves - Helen Berrisford
  • Farewell to one of South Africa's great architects
  • Parktown's oldest house continues to decay
  • The Unlikely Birth of the South African Lipizzaner
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • Life was hard for a woman on the Rand in the early days
  • Confessions of a Collector of Heritage Maps
  • The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa
  • Sammy Marks Museum - The Survival of a Grand Century Old Estate

From the Directory

  • Ancestors Research South Africa
  • Cape Institute for Architecture
  • Heidelberg Heritage Association
  • Edwin Conroy - Genalogist
  • Kensington Residents and Ratepayers Association (KRRA)
  • The South African Antique, Art & Design Association (SAADA)
  • James Ball - Heritage Portal Founder
  • Digital Rail Images of South Africa (DRISA)
  • Gauteng Institute for Architecture (GIfA) Heritage Committee
  • Tulbagh Valley Heritage Foundation
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