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Retail History

  • Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a young schoolboy in the late 1940s, early 1950s and later as a young married man in the early 1960s
  • The fascinating story behind one of Sandton's oldest shops
  • Hunting for Rivonia's First Shop
  • The Men who Made OK Bazaars

From our Archive

  • Tunnel at Waterval Boven - Probably the best-known and most famous of all NZASM structures
  • Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
  • The History behind the Heidelberg Klipkerk
  • Remembering the days when my family owned the Three Castles Building
  • Gauteng’s only artesian spring
  • New Lease of Life for Giant Mining Stamp from 1886
  • Illegal advertising on Old Park Station - Has MTN missed an opportunity?
  • Five homes in bohemian Parktown
  • The Johannesburg Way of Death - The History of the Johannesburg Crematorium
  • Burgers Park - A Victorian Heritage (As portrayed in picture postcards from more than a century ago)
  • Digitising Memory: Preserving the Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery and Village Heritage
  • The Early History of Tara Sandton
  • Was Gandhi at Spioenkop?
  • The Ancestors of the Tswana - Farmers Building Stone-Walled Villages
  • Snapshot Photography - Automobiles photographed in South Africa from the 1920s to 1960s

From the Directory

  • Panners Kingswood Village Association (PKVA)
  • Memorist
  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
  • Stephanie Victor
  • NGT Infraco
  • City of Johannesburg Directorate Arts Culture and Heritage
  • Marc Latilla - Johannesburg Researcher
  • Totem Media
  • Van Biljon Consulting Co.
  • Wynberg East Civic Association (WECA)
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