Binnie Fouche pictures

[SandyB]

An old Oranjemunder Binnie  Fouche  sent me this pic .

Martin le Roux Ian Buchanan Binnie Coetzer and Mary Laughlin 1955 -Oranjemund Swimming Pool ... I have asked her to send  more ....

[SandyB]

A message back from Binnie ,,, she says  she has  extensive on the power station  and will be  looking up many  more  from the old days ,,, so  lets watch this space ....

Hi Sandy.    Enjoyed your chats on ``What our parents got up to``.     Vivid in my memory.    I remember as a baby your mother would walk you daily in your pram.      She was so proud of you.     Always let your bare legs get exposed to the sun and you were so tanned.     I think you were the only baby I every saw that was so nicely tanned.  Another memory was ``New Years Eve`` dances.    They were always ``FANCY DRESS``.    The ``UK - Scots and Irish`` Crowd would arrive and approximately about 10 o`clock they would all just vanish.   (It was noticable)    They would all go home and ensure that their houses were clean.    Empty all ash trays....wash the dishes and dust etc.   (even though we all had servants those days).   They believed ``never to enter the New Year with anything soiled in their homes``.    They would return about 10.30pm and boy did the party and atmosphere take over.     The dance band ``Paddy Kent`` would play untill 2 am.     Hey  ...that was not enough.    They would enchore several times.     Go home to someone`s home and continue partying into wee hours of the morning.       Magic  !!!


I have a tremendous series of the Power station.    Will look further for personal stuff.   Binn

[Michael Alexander]

Thanks Sandy!

The Dance Band Paddy Kent, never heard of this, who were they?

Looking forward to the Power Station stuff....

[SandyB]

Mike  .. Binnie  is one of the older timers who  will be able to give  some more info ... I will be gently  extracting   stories and pictures from her ...  says   she  will  maybe join the site ..

[Michael Alexander]

Thanks Sandy, Looking forward to it....

[SandyB]

Here  some pics from Binnie  and a comment ,,, her father  Cecil John van den Bergh  arrived in Om 1952  as a single man  later to marry  Auntie Freda , I recall a humerous story about  him  asked why he was so successful a fisherman  he  said he used  "lewer " ( liver )  as bait ,,   one or two of the english fishermen  misunderstood  it for  leather ,, so dutifully  cut some leather of  their  belts,, and  proceeded to   try this magic bait with no success ..  upon  asking if he did something special to the leather   to make it work  , he had  great laughs  at them  explaining what "lewer"   chatting to Binnie  has opened up some  more memory channels ,, the sundays in lambs park  ,, his folks were friends with mine ,, auntie  Freda  was  one of those  nice  earthy warm friendly extended family aunts  that we as children liked ,, so back to lambs park .. sundays  regular family gatherings  in the lounge area ,, Lorraine  and Binnie  feature there  in my memory bank , remember the day  I got  my  thumb caught in a  cooldrink bottle   tried desperately to hide the fact that i had messed  up ???
here  Binnies  comment  below  and  some pics 
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Im sorry for sending you so many emails.    Still have to work out how to attach more than one photo.     This is a series of Cecil John van den Berg who married my mother in 1964.     He arrived in Oranjemund as a single man in 1948.   His telegram of appointment is of great interest.   If you look at the rate of pay it is in pounds shillings and pence cause the rand did not yet exist.      The first part of his life in Oranjemund was working on  the mine and later at the Local Power Station.   They led quite a lonely life in the mens single quarters with only  basics of a bed a bedside cabinet and a radio in a room.  I can assure you that the reception on the radio was also not always good.   I have many Power Station fotos but do not know the names of the motors - machines etc.    An interesting range also was when the bridge into Oranjemund washed away in 1952.    Binnn

[SandyB]

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[SandyB]

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[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

Is that a TV in pic  UARTERS.jpg.....?

[SandyB]

Mike  S  maybe  you were too young .. Radios ,, or wireless  were huge in those days .. valves and all ..

[Michael Alexander]

Way to Go Sandy, awesome History Broer!
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[SandyB]

Some  more  blasts from the  past ,,

Comments from Binnie 

Pic 1  --
TEENAGER DANCE 1956 - RECREATIONAL CLUB ORANJEMUND

Pic 2  This was the first Mule Derby.     I think 1957 ....They only had 6 animals to run.    Every race the animal would have a different number.    You never knew which numbers to take cause the same horse won every time.    The donkey was always last.     


Pic  3   Chef - Affenrucken.   

[SandyB]

some  more  pics  from Binnie ,, Stan Devlin one of the old Gm's in  one ,, and  anyone remember Betty  Wallace ?? Took care of the school  kids flying home   from CT ... 
hows  the beehive hairdo and  makeup  in the wedding pic ??

[SandyB]

Some  more , these are  early day stuff indeed ,,, mmm forgot  a young Jonnie  Rall ...

[Michael Alexander]

* ORANJEMUND MESS - FOR ARTISANS AND DAILY PAID.jpg

That mess then went on to become the Sun Room at the Rec Club, in the 70's there was a TV and Video machine in the place......