Here are some amazing never seen before pics of the real early days of Oranjemund.,.. thanks to ex Oranjemunder, Jaco Muller for forwarding the pics onto another ex Oranjemunder and 3 Plant pioneer... Georg Ruf......
Beautiful.... spot the mess?
In the beginning
...... there was desert........
note .... the old republic flag at the Yacht club,,,
This post of snaps is by far, one of the most historical for Oranjemund.... I urge all you old timers out there.... please scan and post images of our town in it's infancy......
msn emoticon (68) The snap of the bioscope is inverted... left to right...
Thanks Mike for posting so quick, i have sent the link to joco who lives relative near to me. More very interesting pics will come as soon as they are ready
Subject is the pipeline construction from the sea to the tankfarm
Hope that Joco will write a comment here, he knows the details
Georg, Great to see you gaining your strength old friend, .....
Between you and Joco.... you have a lot of history, it is funny that you mention the tank farm, as I have heard this week from reliable sources , that DeBeers are alledgedly indeed the stumbling block against the Kudu gas project, a prominent politician was in talks this week with the minister and it apparently turns out that De Beers is demanding N$700 million for the loss of diamond mining rights for the gas folk to run an undersea pipeline over their licensed area to provide the gas fired power station at Uublvley with energy.... so this might seem appropriate.... but it shall get interesting if my sources turn out to be correct... ( for all you newspaper folk that trawl this site for tales... from the deep south..... this is not confirmed , but what I heard.....)
You see our hearts are still in Oranjemund, any news from there are of interest also to oldtimers like Joco, me and many others living scattered all over the world......
The picture is the announcement of the next Lot that i will post to you, i wanted to leave at your discretion what should go in to the forum
With the utmost respect, i think most of the town photo;s are mirrored....
so left to right folks...\
I further wonder what happened to that gate of the Yacht Club..... never saw it in my time.... smiley-hug008.gif
Amazing photos,sorry I never took more in my day.
Quote from: Michael Alexander on December 03, 2011, 04:15:08 PM
note .... the old republic flag at the Yacht club,,,
This is the first time I've seen that flag fly on the clubhouse mast. I cannot recall it ever in my time. But then I was not interested in flags so most likely paid no attention to what flags were unfurled.
Hello there!
Our family lived in Oranjemund from around 1974 to 1978 when we returned to England. I was around 9ish years old then.
The sailing pictures look like Dad, Brian Mewett, old Enterprise with the blue sails!
We had fabulous times at the Yacht club.
Will have to show these photos to him. Alot of our old ones are very degraded now.
Claire-Marie
RE: Pic 1385 Is this the Methodist church opposite the swimming pool?
Mike A.
How about adding title and descriptions to the pictures so that the Newbies can relate to them??? pls
Hi nice to see the old pic: of Oranjemund, but the pic:of the seals was that not in Luderits.
Liz and I have the following contribution to make about the photographs:
We think that photos 1374, 1386, 1392 were possibly the Rec Club.
Photo 1376 seems misplaced as I am sure that it is across the valley from UNISA in Pretoria : the Voortrekker Monument.
1385 was a non-denominational united church as we definitely attended Anglican Sunday School there.
1393: we think this is the shopping centre.
1394 is the corner of 11th avenue and ? at the end of the junior primary (Sub a - Std 1) school playground.
1395: community hall where we attended ballet classes and youth club "sessions".
1391: outside the central offices. From the position of the aerial, from the power station area.
1388: definitely inverted picture of the cinema: the doorway should be on the left of the picture.
1383: Yacht club gate was definitely still in place in 1981 when I left Oranjemund.
this was fun and we will try to find additional photographic material in our father's slides.
Absolutely beautiful. Thanx for the pics!!!
Thanks a mil...this is the Oranjemund we remeber and love!!!
Quote from: Margaret Fry on December 04, 2011, 11:24:39 PM
Liz and I have the following contribution to make about the photographs:
We think that photos 1374, 1386, 1392 were possibly the Rec Club.
Photo 1376 seems misplaced as I am sure that it is across the valley from UNISA in Pretoria : the Voortrekker Monument.
1385 was a non-denominational united church as we definitely attended Anglican Sunday School there.
1393: we think this is the shopping centre.
1394 is the corner of 11th avenue and ? at the end of the junior primary (Sub a - Std 1) school playground.
1395: community hall where we attended ballet classes and youth club "sessions".
1391: outside the central offices. From the position of the aerial, from the power station area.
1388: definitely inverted picture of the cinema: the doorway should be on the left of the picture.
1383: Yacht club gate was definitely still in place in 1981 when I left Oranjemund.
this was fun and we will try to find additional photographic material in our father's slides.
Thanks for that comment, i am still waiting for Joco whou took the pics, to comment here
The inverted pics must be my fault, dont twist your yes to see them the right way
Great thread. Looking foward to seeing more.
@Charles, yes, it was the Methodist Church, now known as the Community Church.....
1393: shopping centre