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  • Val - A tiny place with big history

From our Archive

  • The Long Tom Gun at Dundee
  • Johannesburg in a lithograph circa 1937 - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 1)
  • Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop
  • James Cameron - Second City Engineer of Cape Town
  • Electrification of Railways - Battle of the Systems
  • Potchefstroom railway station destroyed by fire
  • Surgeon in Trouble - Protesting for Biko and Woods
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • The fascinating story behind one of Sandton's oldest shops
  • MHIG breaks records on the Barberton Makhonjwa Geotrail
  • Three Books on the Black Death
  • Remembering Oscar and Rose Norwich: Collectors, Scholars and Custodians of Johannesburg’s Past
  • The English Language in South Africa
  • The Melville Koppies Smelter Comes to Museum Africa
  • 2017 Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites in South Africa Announced 

From the Directory

  • Greater Vredehoek Heritage Action Group
  • Dr Dustin A Tusnovics Architect
  • Modderfontein Conservation Society
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Friends of Alberts Farm
  • Italcotto Roofing
  • National Heritage Council (NHC)
  • Friends of Kloofendal
  • 3DSS Laser Scanning Services
  • Mpumalanga Heritage
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