Here are a few varied photographs from ex Oranjemunder Pierre Strauss. Nice one's of the aftermath of the infamous power station fire...
"I heard sometime ago about oranjemundonline from my son. I lived in Oranlemund from May 1970 to December 1981. My address was 32/13. I worked in the powerstation till it burned down in April 1978. It was a very nice 11 and a half years. It realy was the years of milk and honey. The third photo in your section on the swimming bath, is a photo of my children, Heinrich and Anneke Strauss. They were both taught swimming by mrs. Lindhoudt, Cora Olivier's mother. I had a look in the forum and saw a lot of names that I still remember.
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Like the old Ford in the Daberas pictures.....
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Thanks for sharing your memories Pierre....
The rest of you our there, go dig in those old boxes marked CDM and get those photographs online.....
Wow! Nice photo's. Not long ago my parents said they wonder what happened to their good friend Pierre. Any chance you could pass his contact detail on to me?
I remember the power station from arrival in 1953 until we installed the "new" Mirlees engines around 1972. Stan Colclough was the guy who was imported to do the installation and what facinated me was that he could torque up those massive bolts with only a hammer and spanner, simply by listening to the "ring" tone. Frank Quirk would remember the thrill when those machines were started up.
Quote from: Andre Coetzee on November 05, 2012, 03:56:47 PM
Wow! Nice photo's. Not long ago my parents said they wonder what happened to their good friend Pierre. Any chance you could pass his contact detail on to me?
Andre, I have sent you his email!
Some people I remember on photo 5 Personel from left to right 3 is possibly Ginger Olivier, 4 is Jack McBride foreman, 7 is Les Head, 9 is Frank Quirk.
John
ref pic 769 [ 4] I copy it here . Reminds me of an accident in the late 70's . Some Ovambo's , after having a party , borrowed a land rover at North Hostel , to visit firends at 2 plant hostel. since they were in a hurry , they took the haul road - just to meet a 769 en route . They were all killed in the accident .
The vehicle in the pic could be a land-rover, there are pieces of fiberglass lying all over the the road, land-rovers had fiberglass tops.
Did'nt Bob Molloy have a tale about such an incident... somewhere in the basement of the forum....
I'm still embarassed about that, all these years later. It was an encounter with a bulldozer which, believe it or not, was travelling in reverse!