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ORANJEMUND DISCUSSIONS! => The Photograph Board! => Photographs Comment Board => Topic started by: Michael Alexander on March 17, 2010, 02:59:47 PM

Title: Building the GM's house in 1959~
Post by: Michael Alexander on March 17, 2010, 02:59:47 PM
Some of you might have been around back in the day when the GM's house was being Built!
Title: Re: Building the GM's house in 1959~
Post by: Alfred Boehme on March 17, 2010, 06:00:07 PM
Andrew look carefully your house in first ave is at the back somewhere
Title: Re: Building the GM's house in 1959~
Post by: SandyB on March 17, 2010, 07:15:20 PM
I was then just  3 years old ... a year before my  walkabout with the baboons ... no memory   of it being built ..  thereafter i  have memory  of the  huge gardens  and  we used  to  scale the fence and  play  there ...  on  dread of being caught ...  one  day  I remember  we  even ambled into the house  and  walked around  unchallenged ...  a total contrats to our homes  slate floors in the entrance hall ,,, nice uge lounge and entertaining area ... etc ...   
Title: Re: Building the GM's house in 1959~
Post by: Andrew Darné on March 17, 2010, 09:39:33 PM
Alf you're right. Look directly up from the circle, the long house, you can see the front door and the first bedroom window, thats my old house. In this pic that house is about 3years old, the date cast into the underside of the laundry trough was August 1956. Look to the right and the next house was Diana's, you can just see a wee bit of the end of the roof. This house is quite a bit older than mine (35-1).
Title: Re: Building the GM's house in 1959~
Post by: Gerda Cloete on March 18, 2010, 04:53:10 AM
This is just great !!! As you all know my DAd worked for Rumbel who did all the building work in those days. As far as I can remember my dad had the only  Chev Bakkie like the one in the picture......my dad driving towards the building site?... I'd like to think so.