The Birth of our Town!

[Charles Scheepers]

Mike A.

How about adding title and descriptions to the pictures so that the Newbies can relate to them??? 

[mavis(smith)]

Hi nice to see the old pic: of Oranjemund, but the pic:of the seals was that not in Luderits.

[Margaret Fry]

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.

[Bertie Horak]

Absolutely beautiful. Thanx for the pics!!!

[Gerda Cloete]

Thanks a mil...this is the Oranjemund we remeber and love!!!

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

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

[georg ruf jr.]

Great thread. Looking foward to seeing more.

[Michael Alexander]

@Charles, yes, it was the Methodist Church, now known as the Community Church.....

[Uwe Leube]

1393: shopping centre