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Upper Houghton

  • Beyond the Narrative of Decay: The Real Story of Young Avenue, Upper Houghton
  • The passing of Malcolm Freeland marked the end of an era of old Johannesburg
  • Much More than a Mafia: Mavericks, Mentors, and Medical Maestros. The considerable contribution of St John’s College to Medicine
  • St John’s College, Johannesburg, and the Spanish flu of 1918
  • Deanery then, Koekfontein now - The story of a grand home in Upper Houghton
  • Three Historic Johannesburg Passes

From our Archive

  • The birth certificate of the Yeoville Water Tower
  • The Historical Muizenberg / St. James Walk
  • A Short History of East Fort Pretoria
  • The man who never spoke about the war
  • The World Famous Engineer buried in Simon's Town
  • Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
  • When did Johannesburg first appear on a map?
  • Kenneth Birch and his appreciation of the Witwatersrand Mining landscape
  • A delightful 1987 calendar celebrating the centenary of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
  • Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
  • Kenneth Stanley Birch – born in 1914, Johannesburg memorialist
  • Enigmatic Johannesburg-based Female Photographer, Jane Plotz
  • Response to “Heritage house owners should be compensated by a property tax cut”
  • Memories of Parktown Preparatory School (PTPS)
  • Red Beret, Red Cross, Red Star - The remarkable story of Lippy Kessel

From the Directory

  • South African Anglo Boer War Historical Society
  • Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA)
  • African Centre for Heritage Activities (ACHA)
  • Five Hundred Year Archive Project
  • Craig McClenaghan Architecture
  • Cape Dutch Quarters
  • Roger Stewart Antiquarian
  • Lareman Architects
  • Parktown Association
  • African Pictures
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