The Birth of our Town!

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 04:03:02 PM

Here are some amazing never seen before pics of the real early days of Oranjemund.,.. thanks to ex Oranjemunder, Jaco Muller for forwarding the pics onto another ex Oranjemunder and 3 Plant pioneer... Georg Ruf......

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 04:09:07 PM

Beautiful.... spot the mess?

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 04:12:40 PM

In the beginning

...... there was desert........

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 04:15:08 PM

note .... the old republic flag at the Yacht club,,,

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 04:17:58 PM

This post of snaps is by far, one of the most historical for Oranjemund.... I urge all you old timers out there.... please scan and post images of our town in it's infancy......

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 04:20:26 PM

The snap of the bioscope is inverted... left to right...

georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) · December 03, 2011, 04:24:25 PM

Thanks Mike for posting so quick, i have sent the link to joco who lives relative near to me. More very interesting pics will come as soon as they are ready

Subject is the pipeline construction from the sea to the tankfarm

Hope that Joco will write a comment here, he knows the details

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 04:29:56 PM

Georg, Great to see you gaining your strength old friend, .....

Between you and Joco.... you have a lot of history, it is funny that you mention the tank farm, as I have heard this week from reliable sources , that DeBeers are alledgedly indeed the stumbling block against the Kudu gas project, a prominent politician was in talks this week with the minister and it apparently turns out that De Beers is demanding N$700 million for the loss of diamond mining rights for the gas folk to run an undersea pipeline over their licensed area to provide the gas fired power station at Uublvley with energy.... so this might seem appropriate.... but it shall get interesting if my sources turn out to be correct... ( for all you newspaper folk that trawl this site for tales... from the deep south..... this is not confirmed , but what I heard.....)

georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) · December 03, 2011, 04:39:15 PM

You see our hearts are still in Oranjemund, any news from there are of interest also to oldtimers like Joco, me and many others living scattered all over the world......

The picture is the announcement of the next Lot that i will post to you, i wanted to leave at your discretion what should go in to the forum

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 05:15:58 PM

With the utmost respect, i think most of the town photo;s are mirrored....

so left to right folks...\

Michael Alexander · December 03, 2011, 05:20:47 PM

I further wonder what happened to that gate of the Yacht Club..... never saw it in my time....

john wilson · December 03, 2011, 06:00:04 PM

Amazing photos,sorry I never took more in my day.

Robert Bruce · December 03, 2011, 06:29:28 PM

Quote from: Michael Alexander on December 03, 2011, 04:15:08 PM
note .... the old republic flag at the Yacht club,,,

This is the first time I've seen that flag fly on the clubhouse mast. I cannot recall it ever in my time. But then I was not interested in flags so most likely paid no attention to what flags were unfurled.

Claire-Marie Mewett · December 03, 2011, 08:08:11 PM

Hello there!

Our family lived in Oranjemund from around 1974 to 1978 when we returned to England. I was around 9ish years old then.
The sailing pictures look like Dad, Brian Mewett, old Enterprise with the blue sails!

We had fabulous times at the Yacht club.

Will have to show these photos to him. Alot of our old ones are very degraded now.

Claire-Marie

Carl Wrbka · December 04, 2011, 05:44:04 AM

RE: Pic 1385 Is this the Methodist church opposite the swimming pool?