53-1st Ave and E19-7th Ave

[Michael Alexander]

Here you go Michelle and a few of the garden!
:)

[Michael Alexander]

and these

[Teel]

Wow!  My sister just told me of this site and there is my old house!!  We were the Jonkers that lived there.  Avril and Wally Jonker and their children Richard, Melanie and Lucille (me).  Will try and hunt some pics down to send.  Thanks!

[Michael Alexander]

Hey Lucille, Great to have you onboard, feel free to chat and share those memories....If you need any help...... just ask.....

Mike

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Don't they have the painters round every so often as in the old days. The house have very shoddy paint work and the window frames look rusty. Do all the houses look this way?

[Michael Alexander]

You must see Alfred's house...jeepers, you'll shiver.....

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Oh dear.....so no-body paints then?

[Michael Alexander]

Just kidding.... the mine no longer employs their own dept to paint the buildings, this has been outsourced to private contractors..... and I beleive the budget for repainting houses has been reduced.....As a kid, you would actually see the  teams move into a house for 3 days, then onto the neighbouring house, two teams on opposite side of the streets... these days this is not the case..... It feels like the mine is getting ready to pull the plug..... One gets the impression that after independence, contary to what the mine preaches, they do not have their employee's needs at heart.... Is this becuse the masses moved down here with large families? Is this because the expats all left?, Is this because it was easier to take away those benefits from the workforce to save money on the big budget..... the Town has been abandoned,The christmas tree, the mule derby.... everything has been outsourced to make it easier for Debeers to cut those paternal strings when they detach from this barren and used corner of The Namib..... their treasure chest now empty, the pirates gone.... the victims still here....

Gee! I'm getting deep now, and I ain't even pissed!...

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

it was a really amazing place.....from what you all say its nothing like the place we knew and loved.....think us lot from the 60's-70's era were very lucky to have been part of what O/M used to be.......still cant wait to come back though.......

[DUNJA WRBKA]

WOW, I use to live in 55 -1st Avenue.  Cannot say I recognise number 53 from the pics.  I guess so much has changed in Oranjemund.  Did a return trip in 1987 and already so much had changed.  Found a pic of my first day at Oranjemund Private School... boy that brings back sooo many memories. e154  to all those I knew back then....

Dunja Toussaint (Nee Wrbka)
Of ... 55 - 1st Avenue

[Rhona]

Hi Dunja - Were you in O'mund in the late 70's and very early 80's by any chance; it's just that I think I recognise your name and if memory serves me correctly you used to plait my hair; what a strange memory to have of some-one. I am Rhona Mc Manus and I have a sister Grainne and a brother Gary......we lived in 7th Avenue and were always plagued by those Alexander boys.........have I the right Dunja? If not, just ignore this post and welcome to the fun...

[Michael Alexander]

I remember her, Black hair...down the road from us..... in fact I think her name was mentioned way back in the beginning of this forum, for a reason or other.....

[Rhona]

That's right, the girl I have in my memory has black hair........must be the same girl

[georg ruf jr.]

Hi Dunja.
I remember your family fairly well. I can remember your mom poping in at our place one evening. I think our mothers were colleauges.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

I recall the name Wrbka........shopping center perhaps?