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Transport History

  • The Google Maps of 1930
  • Transport Riders in the Eastern Cape
  • Unique bus shelter restored and celebrated
  • Rickshaws of early Johannesburg
  • A visit to the South African Airways Museum at Rand Airport
  • The 1954 SAA Comet Disaster
  • London Buses were Red except when they were Green
  • History of the Old and New Grabouw Passes
  • South Africa's Road to Nowhere
  • A new perspective on Johannesburg trams
  • Iconic Rotunda being vandalised
  • Tram Spotting - Pretoria Tram Services as depicted on early Picture Postcards (1900s to 1920s)
  • Step into a wagon and go back 200 years
  • Snapshot Photography - Automobiles photographed in South Africa from the 1920s to 1960s
  • Durban's Lost Toll House
  • Old Park Station - A heritage site of exceptional significance comes alive again!
  • Remembering the end of the tramcar era
  • Sir William Hoy (1868-1930) - His life beyond Hermanus
  • The recovery of an element of Cape Town’s lost transportation heritage
  • Pilgrim's Rust - Tracing the Tramway

From our Archive

  • Kate’s Legacy - Seeking the family of an abandoned box of beautiful old photographs
  • Thomas Stewart - First South African Consulting Engineer
  • Cullinan Between the Wars
  • New Lease of Life for Giant Mining Stamp from 1886
  • 19th Century lettering on buildings
  • The story of the largest elephant tusks to ever come out of Kenya
  • Restoration of the South African War Memorial Saxonwold
  • Finding the grave of Nat Nakasa in New York
  • Finding the missing link in the Gold Fields Collection
  • Tram Spotting - Pretoria Tram Services as depicted on early Picture Postcards (1900s to 1920s)
  • The Death of James Christie Grant
  • George Washington Wilson - The man, The Company and The Photographers
  • Response to “Heritage house owners should be compensated by a property tax cut”
  • One of the most remarkable fortification-building projects in the military history of South Africa (if not the world)
  • Historic Bookplates from Southern African Institutional Libraries

From the Directory

  • Pinelands History
  • Antiquarian Auctions
  • Memorist
  • Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa (ILASA)
  • Van Biljon Barnardo Architects
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Wheat Industry Museum
  • Beyond Heritage
  • Drakenstein Heritage Foundation (DHF)
  • Ship Society
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