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Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

Steam Locomotive Component

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The Parliament Collection:
Dramatic view of road and mountains. In the foreground are detailed rocks and bushes and the mountains blue with clouds/mist in the background.

This organ was made by William Hill London between 1832 and 1837. It was imported by Major Henry Somerset as a present to his wife. She gave it to the chapel in Fort England from where it was transferred to the Methodist Church Grahamstown in 1914.

The late nineteenth century panoramic painting by J.L. Pickering of Cape Town, including Table Mountain and a portion of Table Bay, in extent 5,5 x 2,2 meters, and presently housed in the I.F. Vivier Achievement Hall of the S.A. Police at 28 Corporation Street, Cape Town.

Here in the midst of Cape Town in the modern railway station building stands a monument which calls our attention for a moment from the romantic past, epitomised in the Castle and Parade, to the realities of the age of the machine : an old railway engine. For a long time the building of a railway in the Cape Colony was the subject of hesitation and controversy. At last, in 1857, the “Cape Town Railway and Dock Company” obtained the permission of the Cape Government to build railways from Cape Town to Wellington and Wynberg. In 1859 this locomotive, made by Hawthorne of Leith in Scotland, arrived in South Africa together with its driver, William Dabbs. The locomotive was probably used in the construction of its own track to Eerste River. In 1863 the line to Wellington was completed and the engine put into service on it ; in the following year the line to Wynberg was opened. The standard gauge of 1,434 metres was used, but when the Cape Government took over the Railways in 1873 it decided to adopt a gauge of 1,066 metres for all lines and to alter old lines accordingly. To avoid the immediate loss of all rolling stock, an intermediate rail was placed between the existing ones. When the conversion to the narrower gauge was completed in 1881 the period of service of the old engine and of its driver came to an end.

In the cornice and pediment there is a sculpture designed by well-known Cape architect Anton Anreith. It is the only example left of such embossment on a building in Cape Town of which there were formerly at least twenty.

A bronze land cannon manufactured by Manuel Bocarro in Macoa, China, bearing the remains of the crest of Macoa, being a rampant lion with a crown on its head, between the dolphin-shaped lifting handles and the touch hole. In front of the handles there are two trunnions for mounting the cannon and at the decorated back end there is a cascabel. The total length  of the cannon is  3 910 mm and the greatest circumference (near the touch hole) is 1 559 mm and the smallest (near the mouth) 817 mm. The diameter of the bore is 136 mm.The cannon is located at 23 Rocklands Road, Beacon Bay, East London.

Bronze Feyo naval cannon salvaged from the wreck of the Nossa Senhora de Atalaia do PinheiroMade in Portugal by Antonio Gomes Feyo, bearing the inscribed initials AGF, as well as the Portuguese coat of arms. The touch hole surrounds are decorated and the two lifting handles are dolphin-shaped. The cascabel is also decorated. There are two trunnions for mounting the cannon. The total length of the cannon is 3 103 mm and the greatest circumference near the touch hole is 1 367 mm and the smallest (near the mouth) 788 mm. The diameter of the bore is 128 mm.

A bronze or brass cannon made in Portugal in 1638. It bears a coat of arms, probably that of Portugal, some initials and the date 1638 on its barrel. The two lifting handles are dolphin-shaped. There are two trunnions for mounting the cannon, as well as a cascabel. The total length of the cannon is 3 541 mm, and the greatest circumference is 1 383 mm and the smallest 783 mm. The diameter of the bore is 136 mm.
The cannon is located at 23 Rockalnds Road, Beacon Bay, East London.

Griquatown the former capital of the Griquas lies 40 km west of Campbell. It is an o

Clara is one of the last remaining steam locomotives used for conveying copper ore on the historic rail section from Okiep and Nababeep to Port Nolloth. The locomotive was used from 1890 to 1941.

The printing press contributed much to the effectiveness of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners which played an important part in the history of the Afrikaans language.