On a recent visit up to us in Oranjemund, my father in law, one Mike Voden brought something special for me to scan. He was playing bowls down at Gordon's Bay when he got talking to a chap who handed his late father's (in law?, Mike V can fill in the details) photo album. Here are some nice snaps of Oranjemund from those early years, note the fashions down at the club back in the day.... some snaps may not have reference to all of you, but for me, it's nice to see how a building or garden looked like back in the formative years...
Thanks "Pops"
If anyone knew this man or family, please feel free to comment....
Please feel free to add in any names!
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Like the one where the chap is walking along the old bridge, next to the new one....
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Can anyone confirm any of the names in the snap with all the ol' gals? We are not too sure if this is an Oranjemund related snap or not.....
The other snap for comment, was this taken in the St. Annes Catholic shurch?
.Many of you out there have these "historical" albums tucked away in a box somewhere.... do something about it.... don't leave it till you're gone and those that follow just dump "our" memories...
Thanks again to Mike V.... who took the time and effort to bring me this album...
I recall The Gordons , they lived in the same road as the shopping center and the cinema ,, if one looks at the cinema from the front to the left was a parking lot ( dont know it its still so ) they stayed in the first house abutting the parking lot ...
The photo from the power station looking east I can see Pete's house
Pic 13: Dave and Marje Gordon
Pic 17: General Manager Stan Devlin, bowling.
Pic 33: Soccer team. Centre row, first left; Gunter Machts.
Pic 36: Dave Gordon with cup.
Pic 38: Old wooden houses cannibalised from Elizabeth Bay.
Pic shows how gardens began in Omund. First the sieve, background with heaps of gravel around it. Remove all rocks and stones, replace soil, add guano (collected from under the power poles in the desert) and manure, delivered monthly from Beauvallon. Mix well, plant, water, nurture and the rest is history.
Pic 39: Dave Gordon.
Pic 60: Soccer team, 2nd left, rear: Vic Nortier.
@Bob, Thanks for that, er, where is Pic 60?
One day, that son in law will get the story correct, only kidding Mike A.
The photo album was handed to me by Alex Wentzel, another member of the Gordon's Bay Bowling Club, whose wife Jackie knew we were from Oranjemund and on a couple of occasions referred that her uncle, a stone mason / bricklayer by the name of Dave Gordon worked there in the sixties and that her brother had a photo album with a newspaper cut out mentioning the town of Oranjemund.
Whilst looking through this album, I realised that there was more than just a cut out, in fact quite a few (as you can see by Mike's hard work) photo's of houses and clubs in and around Oranjemund from the sixties era.
Thanks to Jackie and Alex for the loan of your family album........
So nice to see the mural on the the back wall of the catholic church . That would be Father Keith in the photo. dawoman
R U Sure that is Father Keith? Were there 2 Father Keiths?
Father Keith had a dog called Bingils
looks like a young father Keith ,,,,
Oops, I meant Pic 40.
That is deffinately the one and only Father Keith (late '60's) he had a skipper dog called Bingles. He would say dance Bingles dance and this dog would get up on its hind legs and turn around in circles.
The mural was done by Ivan Morrow . Farther Egersdorfer [ last heard that he was in Kammieskroon ... pardon spelling ?? ] told me that it was done for the benefit of the children , who could identify bible stories from the different scenes on the wall . Is it still there ?