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CURRENT ISSUES

Brett & Richard Holden (Engineer)

Have been responsible for shoring up the banks of the Orange grove Spruit saving the Hilson Road Bridge from collapse .

Heritage Blue Plaques installed in Joburg

The inaugural FNB Run Your City Series (RYCS) Heritage Day Virtual Run took place nationwide today (National Heritage Day / Thursday 24 September 2020)

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Lenska & Matthew's - Blue Plaque Heritage Day Run September 2020

Wonderful News for Joburg Heritage Foundation as the Oppenheimer Family ensure Heritage Preservation is a Priority and Donates to the continued Operations of JHF Research Centre.

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Link to Rosebank Gazette Article

COVID-19

Covid has caused the tours to be postponed…… and the Northwards office has been closed.

Contact Eira by phone 082 834-3377 on What’s App or email.

Please don’t use the office number 011 482 3349

TRIBUTE FOR PROF REVIL MASON

Tribute for Prof Revil Mason on behalf of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation by Professor Kathy Munro.

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation mourns the passing of Professor Revil Mason, distinguished archaeologist and fine academic. He was the professor of African prehistory and director of the Archaeological Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand. We celebrate his life and his achievements in science.

He was the man who brought the pre-history of the Transvaal to the fore and taught us there were people on the highveld and on the ridges of the Witwatersrand before the founding of Johannesburg and the discovery of gold.

I value his occasional paper written in 1971 on Prehistoric man at Melville Koppies, Johannesburg. His field work on the Iron Age sites of Melville Koppies and elsewhere were pathbreaking and his efforts were in no small measure responsible for the preservation and conservation of the koppies and ridges of our city and ensuring that Melville Koppies remains an open natural ridge parkland for Johannesburg citizens. You can hike, walk climb, look at the flora and learn about the work of Revil Mason and its significance. He showed how people lived and hunted here three hundred years ago in the late Stone Age

EXCITING NEWS FOR JOBURG MUSEUM
Lindfield House Museum is OPEN again

For the fifth year in-succession Lindfield House Museum has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence by TRIP ADVISOR arising from the repeated 5-star rating Katherine Love has received 5 years running. This qualifies her and her Victorian Museum for the Trip Advisor Hall of Fame.

It is simply amazing that this self- funded museum outranks all the others in Johannesburg including state funded and even one funded by a casino let alone the municipal museums which do not feature at all.

If you have not already visited Lindfield House Phone (011) 726 2932 for an appointment for a guided tour and tea at this charming house, packed with treasures at 72 Richmond Avenue, Auckland Park.

You can find some photographs on the internet.

To View 10 Of Joburg's Most Underated Buildings

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“In line with the Government’s action to limit exposure to the Corona Virus we have agreed to postpone all functions and events planned for March and April.

We will try to bring our members some lively information on heritage conservation and our work will continue, but without allowing visitors to Northwards or to the Research Centre.

Please contact Eira by telephone or e-mail mail@joburgheritage.co.za and if you are getting frustrated because there are times when the line isn’t working and messages don’t go through you can use diana@joburgheritage.co.za and she will direct your message to the right person.