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Observatory

  • A Short History of the Mulberry Tree
  • Exploring the Syringa Tree
  • The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
  • The story behind Johannesburg's oldest War Memorial
  • Da Gama Park - A little known park with some of the best views of Johannesburg
  • Three Historic Johannesburg Passes

From our Archive

  • Our City Fathers ought to be Protecting and Defending Joubert Park
  • 10 000 attend Taffy Long's funeral in 1922
  • Visit this monumental mosaic celebrating Johannesburg
  • The 1960 Coalbrook Disaster
  • Kenneth Stanley Birch – born in 1914, Johannesburg memorialist
  • Researching, Recording and Restoration - The Origins of the Johannesburg Historical Society
  • We can reclaim our Hillbrow Tower!
  • Pioneer Diamond Field Photographers Kimberley (1869 - 1915)
  • South African “Cartomania” - a photographic phenomenon
  • Markhams Building and the Cape Town Connection
  • Finding Mr Patel’s outfitter shop in Rockey Street
  • Old stamp mills finally go home
  • A Brief History of Knysna from 1770 to 1890
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • Another Blood Soaked Hill in Zululand - Gunner Frederick Henry Bradley V.C.

From the Directory

  • National Heritage Council (NHC)
  • Kalk Bay St James Ratepayers and Residents Association
  • Dullstroom Heritage Society
  • Italcotto Roofing
  • Parkview Residents Association (PRA)
  • McGregor Heritage Society
  • Western Cape Numismatic Society
  • Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
  • Landscape Heritage SA
  • Ursula Rigby Architect & Professional Heritage Practitioner
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