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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

  • The Hill Sign at Little Falls turns 100
  • The Economy of Potchefstroom 1838-1880
  • Collecting artefacts in Livingstone via Pandamatenga and Victoria Falls
  • Ten Sites Every Roman Britain Enthusiast Should Visit
  • Beyers Naudé - From Pariah to National Hero
  • Visiting the oldest extant cemetery in South Africa
  • Sappersrus and the War Memorial to the Sappers
  • Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Imperial Delhi
  • Meandering along the Sea Point Promenade
  • A remarkable Pretorian: Photographer Dotman Pretorius (1917-1999)
  • Why build a majestic villa here?
  • Remembering the East Africa Campaign during World War I
  • What was Johannesburg like in 1931?
  • Coloured, Honorary White, Legally Black: The Four Waves of Chinese South Africa
  • Onze Molen - Durbanville's link with the past

From the Directory

  • Lennie Gouws - Researcher and Author
  • Salt River Heritage Society
  • Heritage Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Wheat Industry Museum
  • Cape Dutch Quarters
  • Drakenstein Heritage Foundation (DHF)
  • Franco Frescura Heritage Consultants
  • Constantia Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association
  • Pressed Ceilings & Decor by Legacy
  • City of Johannesburg Directorate Arts Culture and Heritage
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