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ORANJEMUND DISCUSSIONS! => Oranjemund Bush Telegraph! => Topic started by: Charles Scheepers on April 12, 2016, 03:45:24 PM

Title: Date of construction...
Post by: Charles Scheepers on April 12, 2016, 03:45:24 PM
Can any of the old timers help me with the date that the CFC (Central Flat Complex) was build in Oranjemund???  :ciupa1:
Title: Re: Date of construction...
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 13, 2016, 05:59:43 AM
If I recall correctly, sometime around the late 70's.....?


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Post by: Pete (RIP) on April 13, 2016, 07:10:47 AM
Suggest you go and ask the guys at the drawing office at Projects - they have plans and details of all the Company buildings in town.
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Post by: Charles Scheepers on April 13, 2016, 04:33:01 PM
Thanks for the info. But that starts question 2.
When was the Bedsitters build. I know it was in 2 phases.
I lived in both the old and new bedsitters.
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Post by: noel murphy on April 13, 2016, 07:38:29 PM
I moved into the new bedsitters around November 1981 (H block close to the car ramp / repair bay). They had just been completed at that stage.
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Post by: Michael Alexander on April 14, 2016, 04:55:16 AM
Old Bedsitters on the east and the new bedsitters to the west next to the carpenter workshop?
Title: Re: Date of construction...
Post by: Charles Scheepers on April 14, 2016, 02:46:50 PM
Correct Mike A.
Title: Re: Date of construction...
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 14, 2016, 03:20:16 PM
An old timer reckons the first phase of Bedsitters went up around 1971?

Title: Re: Date of construction...
Post by: henniek on April 14, 2016, 03:35:47 PM
I guess the year around 1980 would not be far off for the flats- bed sitters near the carpenter shop
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Post by: Milo on April 14, 2016, 06:30:16 PM
 1978
Title: Re: Date of construction...
Post by: henniek on April 15, 2016, 05:55:13 AM
a bad quality picture of OM early 1980 . the flats next to the rugby club not built at the time .  people with foto enhancing programs may make the picture better
Title: Re: Date of construction...
Post by: henniek on April 16, 2016, 10:31:26 AM
the open space next to the rugby club - 1979 , where flats/ bedsitters was built at a later stage
Title: Re: Date of construction...
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 17, 2016, 05:22:14 PM
Wow! Strange to see no Rugby Club flats there..
Title: Re: Date of construction...
Post by: henniek on April 19, 2016, 12:46:28 PM
One of the first to move in was Hein U with his big Ford bakkie .. I Think a F250 4x4