Old Style Houses!

[Gordon Brown]

Builing contractors were a firm called 'Rumbles'

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

There we go Gordon..."Rumbles". The name that has been on the tip of my tongue regarding these wooden houses. Just couldn't get to the name to post it. Now that is realy old O'mund stuff.

[Alfred Boehme]

Yes Mike the Volleyball club house, it is now the Badminton club house, before then I remember the stuf for the display windows

[SandyB]

The Rumbles  contractors also used to stay  on  the site next to the  old carpenter  and home  maintenance  workshop opposite the  town magazine .. the area is now the site of the  bedsitter complex ..

[John Creedy]

Rumbles.  They had "dwellings" on the site where the GM's house is built. The dwellings they lived in were pre-fabs and in later years the panels were available for employees to build pondoks out of.  We had one at 24/11 Ave which went to Jack Vosloo in later years.  One huge Rumbles man I remember was Koos who used to do well at muscle powered events at the mule derby. He was a very gentle man I seem to remember.  One name sticks out is a young girl by the name od Stofalina Peach.  Wonder why I remember that?

[Gerda Cloete]

I have great memories of the Wooden Houses. We lived in 9/11th street before we moved to Koneintjie Dorp. E 32/8th Ave. I took some pics on my last vist 2 years ago. Will dig them out.

[Stephanie Van Niekerk]

@ Gerda..
Uhmmmm... old age???
You lived in 11/9th ave.  Few houses away from us.
I will never forget that house. Went there (to your mom and dad) when I was in std 2 and told them I was going to marry your brother one day.
I too have a pic or two of those wooden homes.  When we moved to Oranjemund from Kolmanskop (in 50's) we lived in one till we got a cement house.

[Gerda Cloete]

Ok Ok ek's jammer.... The co was called John Rumbel. My dad ( Gert Cloete ) was the foreman and probably build all the houses you are living in right now. The big guy was Koos Vermaak. He worked with my dad. His wife was Susan and he had a son called Fanie.

[mavis(smith)]

I know who lived in 11/9th my friends Meisie and Gertjie Pretorius

[Leon Sumter]

Stephanie wrote, "When we moved to Oranjemund from Kolmanskop (in 50's) we lived in one till we got a cement house"

Hi Stephanie please tell us more about your early days in Kolmanskop.

[SandyB]

That  part of town  with the  prefabs  on the GM's  house  site  was called  Texas ,, there is a reference  to it in an article from my stepfathers book somewhere  on this site ... read  attached

[Michael Alexander]

Sandy, I think I might have missed this... where on this awesome and large forum is the rest of this tale?

[SandyB]

Mike  dont know exactly where i posted it .. I still had the scan of the two pages from  Eddies  book .. but yes  maybe get you a copy . and you can read the whole book .. its quite an adventure ,, the  political  bit aside ...

[Bob Molloy]

Hi Sandy,
                Yep, I join  with Mike on this one. Where can I read your post of the full book, or failing that, where can I get a copy of the book?

[SandyB]

HI  Bob ,, dont  have  posting of full book ...  I will PM  you  Edies  email address  and you can   contact him  as to where you  could get a copy of the book  or  have him post one to you ..