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Houghton

  • Unique bus shelter restored and celebrated
  • Houghton, Orange Grove, Killarney, Mayfair and Greenside get blue plaques!
  • Mourning the loss of a Lower Houghton landmark
  • A hundred years ago: St John’s College, Johannesburg, in 1920
  • The Hidden History of Mount Carmel
  • Harrow Road stonework in Houghton - The wall built by Barnett Lobel
  • Three Historic Johannesburg Passes
  • Houghton was nearly a Mining Township

From our Archive

  • The Big Fiery Giant - The Story of the Beyer-Garratt Locomotive
  • Old stamp mills finally go home
  • South Africa's World Record Breaking Train!
  • The Fall of Pretoria, June 1900
  • Inner City Tourism Booming
  • Hidden Treasures of the Riemland
  • All the winners from the Herbert Prins Colosseum Awards
  • Flo Bird - house by house, street by street
  • Remarkable historic documents emerge at Hilton auction
  • The South African Victorian photo album (early 1860s into the early 1900s)
  • Farewell to one of South Africa's great architects
  • Step into Victorian Joburg
  • Postmortem Photography in South Africa
  • Old Town House Greenmarket Square
  • A short history of Gerard Moerdyk's first church

From the Directory

  • Sibambene Bolt Heritage Construction
  • South African Institute of Architects (SAIA)
  • Friends of Kloofendal
  • Vernon Systems
  • South African Museum Association (SAMA)
  • Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Hout Bay and Llandudno Heritage Trust
  • Ancestors Research South Africa
  • Marc Latilla - Johannesburg Researcher
  • Durban Walking Tours
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