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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

  • Subway mural brings Fietas alive (in 2010)
  • Surgeon in Trouble - Protesting for Biko and Woods
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 3)
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat
  • The South African baboon that became a war hero
  • Visiting one of the oldest pubs in Gauteng
  • Rousing Interest among the Young
  • Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Pondoland, South Africa (Part 2)
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Growing up on a Sandton Farm
  • The Preservation of Pimville Soweto
  • Struben Monument Destroyed but not Forgotten
  • Caring for the injured after the Johannesburg Station bombing
  • This is the story of how and why I became the author of "Die Jeppe Story" by Herbert A. Peschel
  • What's printed on your frog? Treasured heritage from the brickfields of John Johnston Kirkness

From the Directory

  • Pretoria Institute for Architecture (PIA)
  • Heritage House, Modderfontein
  • Lepogo La Thaba Adventures
  • African Pictures
  • Johan van Heerden - Researcher
  • Les Pivnic
  • Cape Town Family History Society
  • Hilton Steam Heritage Association
  • University of Cape Town - Conservation and the Built Environment
  • Models n Maps
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