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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

  • From the ashes of South Africa's worst earthquake rise the old buildings of Tulbagh
  • The Johannesburg Way of Death - The History of the Johannesburg Crematorium
  • Life as a POW - May 1941-45 (Part 1)
  • Visiting historic Hanover via Springfontein
  • Amazing places to view the Sandton skyline
  • British Ammunition Expenditure / Kill Ratio at the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift
  • When a Provincial Heritage Site is so desecrated one must question how they should be protected
  • Carl Friedrich Adolf Wundram - Piet Retief’s only recorded photographer between the 1890s and 1910
  • The Port Elizabeth Railway Station
  • Chinese New Year Lights Up Johannesburg's Derrick Avenue in Cultural Spectacle
  • A Deeper Look at Johannesburg's New Street Names
  • The Free State's Forgotten Railway Line
  • Memorials to the Zulu dead at Isandlwana
  • AmaWasha - Jozi's first black businessmen
  • More than a century ago: “Toen en Nu” (Then and Now) - A poem by Ompie

From the Directory

  • Hermanus History Society
  • Memorist
  • Cape Town Family History Society
  • Society of Bibliophiles in Cape Town
  • Johan van Heerden - Researcher
  • Brixton Community Forum (BCF)
  • Hartbeespoort Environment and Heritage Association (HEHA)
  • Digital Rail Images of South Africa (DRISA)
  • Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
  • Heritage House, Modderfontein
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