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Restoration

  • The rescue restoration of the historic town centre of Wupperthal
  • All the winners from the Herbert Prins Colosseum Awards
  • The restoration of the Workers' Cottages in Newtown
  • New Lease of Life for Giant Mining Stamp from 1886
  • Looking back at the restoration of the Barbican Building
  • Looking back on the restoration of Johannesburg's Old Fort
  • Looking back on the restoration of the majestic Reserve Bank Building
  • Historic sculptures at St Andrew’s School for Girls restored
  • Remembering exciting finds in Drill Hall development
  • Rising from the Ashes - The 1926 Restoration of Groot Constantia
  • St Alban's Church breathes again (in 2012)
  • Salisbury House shines again (in 2005)
  • Hollard saves Arcadia (in 2004) and gets the best view around
  • Wanooka a grand old place again (restored in 2010)
  • The History and Restoration of Boschendal
  • A swastika, Herbert Baker and the Pretoria Station
  • Schroder House - The oldest documented dwelling in South Africa
  • Hidden arcade re-emerges after four and a half decades
  • One of Norwood's oldest homes restored
  • A Short History of one of the oldest houses in South Africa

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From our Archive

  • Rediscovery of historical survey beacon on Oxford Road
  • Landmark Potchefstroom building to be sold at auction
  • Peeling back the layers of Orange Grove
  • To Okavango and Chobe on foot in 1884 - A Dundonian Odyssey
  • Home Straight for Massive ANC Archives Digitization Project
  • The reinterment of the remains of the first (and last) Consul General of the Ottoman Empire posted to South Africa
  • Wupperthal - From Fire to Restoration
  • The War of 1812 - A needless war perhaps?
  • Visiting the Military Garden of Remembrance at Polokwane
  • The Blue Plaques of Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) - Part 1
  • The Author and the Archaeologist - Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan
  • The Hill Sign at Little Falls turns 100
  • A stroll through the Heidelberg Kloof cemetery
  • Irving Lissoos - coming of age in Jewish Johannesburg
  • No more happy days at the Royal Natal National Park Hotel 

From the Directory

  • Stephanie Victor
  • LM Architects and Heritage Consultants
  • Magaliesberg Association for Cultural Heritage (MACH)
  • Wheat Industry Museum
  • Free State Heritage Resources Authority (FSHRA)
  • Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (ECPHRA)
  • Original Shoreline Project
  • Pinelands History
  • Van Plettenberg Historical Society
  • Surfing Heritage South Africa
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