John Creedy's Oranjemund Holiday DVD!

[Michael Alexander]

Well, I eventually got time to watch the DVD that John had put together from his return holiday to Oranjemund with Leila..... (The benefits of Sick leave), Well done! It's nicely done. I was just thinking or wondering, as they drove around the town, filming and photographing all the streets and buildings, if this is what might befall our little town in the decades to come, abandoned buildings, sand covered streets..... perhaps the new Kolmanskuppe of Namibia, tourists roaming the streets.... I hope not......

I did hear on one of the clips, John pointing out the Old Bakery.... and then Leila responding that it was also the dairy... I never knew this..... when did this building only start producing bread..... was the milk just stored there?

In the 70's, where was the milk being processed?

Just some thoughts! 

[Ricky Barron (RIP)]

Fresh milk was only made available to the townsfolk from the early sixties (approx) and then, initially, only for families of new born babies. My two sisters and I grew up on Nespray powdered milk until we were well into our OPS days. The fresh milk was brought in from Beauvallon (Beautiful Valley) Farm in large containers and dropped off at the Bakery. At the birth of my youngest sister, Lesley, in 1960, our "house boy" would go to the Bakery with a jug ,or similar container, and collect the allowed quota (I believe it was two pints a day), which was distributed free of charge! As to when the Dairy and Bakery became seperate entities, I am not sure, but will try to find out!

Seasons greetings to all, and may 2009 be what you wish for.....................

[Michael Alexander]

Free Milk, I remember seeing those big metal Urns around somewhere....... The mine still distributes free Milk to their employees for tea time, UHT Milk bought via Spar..... and I can tell you that it is rather large quantities......

I remember at OPS in the 70's , I think the teacher was called Mrs. Mallow..... we were shown how to turn Beauvallon Milk into Cream and then cheese at a later stage..... strange those odd memories one recalls....

WOnder if there was ever a horse drawn milk cart in Omund.....   

[SandyB]

I recall a school tour to the  dairy in town next to the bakery.. the milk was brought in from  beauvallon  in the  big  cans  and pasteurised  in the dairy and bottled .. they  then  also introduced the  first sachets of milk ...  the quote in the newsletter  was the  sachets were  virtually unbreakable ..  so  clever me  proceeded to  test this  claim ...   I took sachet  outside threw it  into the  air .. it  landed with a  thud   , unbroken ...  a few  more such tests ..  still intact ... Mmm its  indeed unbreakable  so i spent the next hour  idly tossing it  around   waking around the  house  and whenever the  fancy took  me   tossed it  up  into the air again .. then..  i  gave it  one  very  hard toss ito the  air that  it  hit the  ceiling  in the house  passage way  very hard ... well it appears  i  had  "tested " the sachet to  destruction .. it had  had enough ., burst as it  hit the  ceiling  and    sent  milk in all directions    down the walls  and  soaked the carpet as well ..  Oops  in  throuble again ....  I did the best  cleanup I could but of  course you can imagine  the passage carpet was still slightly damp  when  my  folks got  back from  work ..  i got by  that one  by explaining to my  mom that  i had  spilt  some  water ...  secret out a few  days  later when  the  sour  smell of  rotting milk  started to emanate from the carpet ...   then  I  was   on the red carpet again...  made to shampoo the carpet  over and over till the smell disapeared ...    silly   

[John Haycox]

I was under the impression that the milk came from Swartkops, the farm on the SWA side of the river.  The cattle that were destined to be slaughtered, were also kept at Swartkops to recover after their long trek from Grootfontein.

[SandyB]

Could have been either .. we  just always  thought of beauvallon as the main farm ..

[Michael Alexander]

The school tours in the 70's were always to Beauvallon farm, the cows were milked at the Dunvlei Dairy... perhaps prior to the establishment of Beavallon the cows were milked at Swartkops?

[John Haycox]

We never crossed the bridge unless we were xrayed, so we only went to Beauvalon (don't even know how to spell it) to fetch our cars to go on holiday.

After the bridge was built, we never went there, our cars were kept in garages on the SWA side of the river.  Or we went by bus to the airport.  Is it Kort Doring or Klein Doring, the A'bay aerodrome  (perhaps landing strip is a better name)

[Malcolm Bertoni]

Mike

I might want to get a copy of that DVD when I see you.  From all the comments and observations on the forum, things are changing fast in O'mund. And not for the better.


Malcolm