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Simons Town

  • Iran and South Africa: Naval Interactions of the 1970s
  • The mega move of SAS Assegaai - Africa's first submarine museum
  • Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later
  • Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Preserving the only submarine museum in Africa
  • Finding Job Maseko - It is not Masego, it is Maseko
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • The World Famous Engineer buried in Simon's Town
  • Visiting the Historic Simon’s Town Old Burying Ground
  • Cape Town’s rich military heritage celebrated
  • A short history of Simon's Town's famous Martello Tower
  • Is the Claim of 'Oldest School in South Africa' Legitimate?

From our Archive

  • Port Alfred's Historic Castle
  • Celebrating women in maritime archaeology
  • Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
  • The Missionary Beginnings of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
  • 16 300 books... and counting
  • Five Lost Seven Remain: The Carnegie Libraries of South Africa
  • A Short History of Plettenberg Bay's 'oldest surviving building'
  • A Bloody Riot in Soweto in 1957
  • The Early History of Boksburg
  • Requiem to a Johannesburg landmark - The Grand Station Hotel lost to fire
  • Rickshaws of early Johannesburg
  • Dundee's Fighting Postmaster
  • Memories of the Old Melville Swimming Baths
  • Historic recipe books are an aspect of cultural history
  • Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)

From the Directory

  • South African Cannon Association (SACA)
  • James Findlay Collectable Books & Antique Maps
  • Heritage Potchefstroom Erfenis
  • Pinelands Ratepayers and Residents Associations (PRRA)
  • Osmond Lange Architects
  • Alberton Heritage Society
  • Mandela Bay Heritage Trust (MBHT)
  • Franco Frescura Heritage Consultants
  • Booklovers Paradise
  • Hermanus History Society
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