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Scientific Heritage

  • Living Amongst the Stars at the Johannesburg Observatory

From our Archive

  • Oblowitz's Bioscope and the Adelphi Cinema: Film in Hermanus: 1906-1981
  • The Legacy of Dr Arthur David Bensusan
  • A life synopsis intuited from a single Cabinet Card - Thomas Stork (1872-1953)
  • Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
  • Farewell to one of South Africa's great architects
  • Joburg’s market square defined the town
  • Finding the Original Witwatersrand Agricultural Show Grounds
  • Old clock returns home (in 1978) after 80 years
  • The Gates of Friedaura: A Portal to Parktown's Past
  • Zonderwater - Almost certainly the Largest Allied POW Camp in the World
  • Saving the Rissik Street Post Office from destruction by fire!
  • The History and Restoration of Boschendal
  • Potchefstroom railway station destroyed by fire
  • Deep-level mining photography: The Elusive Neilson Brothers demystified - with additional information on James Wilbur Read
  • NWU Main Building – The Icon of Potchefstroom

From the Directory

  • Yeoville and Bellevue Ratepayers Association
  • African Conservation Trust (ACT)
  • Amafa / Heritage KwaZulu Natal
  • Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA)
  • South African Institute of Architects (SAIA)
  • Daveyton Heritage Society
  • Stephanie Victor
  • Mpumalanga Institute of Architects (MPIA)
  • Booklovers Paradise
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