Heritage Portal Showcase 2023

Thank you to all our readers and contributors for another wonderful year. The Heritage Portal would not be possible without you! Enjoy this showcase of stories from 2023. Have a fantastic festive season and see you in 2024.

Editor’s Choice

• The Ponte Saga

• The rescue restoration of the historic town centre of Wupperthal

• Heritage Jewels of KZN

• Review of Durban in the 1920s and 1930s

• Southern Africa from above: Aerial Photography – A historical overview

• Journal of a visit to the Gold Fields in 1889

Mysteries

• Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Pondoland, South Africa

• Unicorns in the Stormberg - New light on an old mystery

• That secret Johannesburg canal and stream

• Sandton almost had a beach

• The Busy Engineer who Disappeared

Collectors

• The first printed map of South Africa

• The man behind one of South Africa's largest private photographic collections

• Africana map collection resurfaces after half a century

• An early South African Philaphotographologist (photograph collector)

• Confessions of a Collector

Military

• Our Forgotten Heritage – The Beleaguered Blockhouses

• Fort Napier 1843 - 2023 - One of the longest lasting and most peaceful military structures in South Africa

• British Ammunition Expenditure at the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift

• The Amnesia on the Commemoration of African Women in the South African War

• Anglo-Boer War sketches, Magic Lanterns and the Lanternist

Railways

• George Pauling - Leading railway contractor in the development of Southern Africa

• The Saga of the planned major SAR & H Museum that never was

• Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)

• Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula

• Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy