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Historic Hotels

  • Inside the Carlton Hotel - Nostalgia overlaid with depression
  • Review of Meet me at the Carlton
  • The Old Hotels of Cape Town (1890-1911) by Michael Walker

From our Archive

  • The Kodak Girl - South African Film Wallets (1910s to 1960s)
  • A remarkable Johannesburg-based female portrait artist: Sara Buijskes (1886 - 1970)
  • Stories from a Diamond Mine - The Early Days
  • Early Shipwrecks Off the Eastern Coast
  • Andrew Geddes Bain - Iconic Pass Builder and Father of Geology in South Africa
  • SAHRA meets the Bo-Kaap
  • Cape Town Photographs by TP and TD Ravenscroft
  • Houghton was nearly a Mining Township
  • Re-imagining the Planetarium as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome
  • Memorial to President John F Kennedy in Sandton
  • James Bisset - Bringing Mass Transport to the Suburbs
  • A short history of the tram lines serving Pretoria and the Union Buildings via Church Square
  • Sol Plaatje - Cycling into South African History
  • A Transvaal Colony Dog Tag from 1903
  • Pogonology: South African men and their facial hair - As portrayed in photographs from the Victorian era

From the Directory

  • Norwood Orchards Residents Association (NORA)
  • Village Timber
  • Dr Graham Dominy
  • Ubique Heritage Consultants
  • Knysna Historical Society
  • Modderfontein Conservation Society
  • Boksburg and East Rand Historical Association
  • Lareman Architects
  • 3DSS Laser Scanning Services
  • Cape's Threatened Buildings
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