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Port Alfred

  • Kate’s Legacy - Seeking the family of an abandoned box of beautiful old photographs
  • Merther, Minerals & Migrations - Three generations of the Lavin family
  • A short history of Barville Park - One of the largest settler properties in the Eastern Cape
  • The Blaauwkrantz Bridge Disaster
  • Port Alfred's Historic Castle

From our Archive

  • Separated by a Common Language
  • Early Shipwrecks Off the Eastern Coast
  • The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 2)
  • The Ponte Saga
  • Remembering the days when my family owned the Three Castles Building
  • The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • The Old Court House - A Link with Early Durban
  • Where have all the mine dumps gone?
  • Some early Piquetberg farms illustrated by Johannes Cornelius Poortermans
  • The Scottish Horse Memorial: Honouring the Fallen in Edinburgh and Johannesburg
  • One of South Africa's most fascinating farming histories
  • German Relics in the Eastern Cape
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape

From the Directory

  • Asha Consulting
  • Mahikeng Society
  • Hearth Heritage
  • City of Johannesburg Directorate Arts Culture and Heritage
  • Norwood Orchards Residents Association (NORA)
  • Dannhauser Chronicle
  • Ship Society
  • Dr Dustin A Tusnovics Architect
  • The Empathy Lab
  • First Nation Cobuqua Indigenous Chapter
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  • Limited edition set of six historic maps
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