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From our Archive

  • Okey Lewis – Forgotten Olympic gold medal cyclist
  • Brief History of St Ursula’s School
  • Restoring Pietermaritzburg's Old Ireland Building in the late 1970s
  • The Queens Road Commune - Living in a grand Parktown mansion in the 1970s
  • Discarded Family History: My Life Story – Lorna Edna Nattrass (1906-2000)
  • James Bisset - Bringing Mass Transport to the Suburbs
  • The Long Tom Gun at Dundee
  • How 'Meccano' inspired generations of engineers
  • A remarkable set of 33 postcards of Johannesburg circa 1904-08
  • Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
  • A Short History of the SA Dagger
  • Mourning the loss of a Lower Houghton landmark
  • The Krugersdorp Fire Station - A 1930s Art Deco Landmark
  • Millbank - The Closest Historic Mill to Johannesburg
  • Robben Island Garrison Church - Costly restoration goes horribly wrong

From the Directory

  • Society of Bibliophiles in Cape Town
  • South African National Society (SANS)
  • Mayat Hart Architecture
  • Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen - Paper Conservator
  • Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)
  • Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents Association (SAPRA)
  • Asha Consulting
  • Sticky Situations
  • Surfing Heritage South Africa
  • Past Experiences
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