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St Albans Anglican Church, Wellington (Winelands District)
No full textHigh up in a bell cote of the Saint Albans Anglican Church in Wellington, hangs a shiny bell that is unreachable to take its measurements. Fortunately, we have been able to recognize the decorations on the bell. The bell has no crown. On the visible side and in the middle of the bell we find an emblem that consists of a triangle standing on a corner. Within the triangle are three anchors, with the middle one larger than the two adjoining ones. Below this follows the inscription: H.E. RUTHERFOORD.&.BRO. CAPE.TOWN. and a pair of moulding wires on the sound bow of the bell. Howson Edwards RUTHERFOORD (1794-1862) was a very successful business man who together with a brother owned the firm H.E.Rutherfoord & Bro. The firm was active in the shipping industry and had its main office on 3 Burg Street, Cape Town. The emblem on the bell with its three anchors probably was the emblem of the firm. Among the ships that have been linked to the firm are Northam, Syria and Windsor Castle. This last ship was one of the boats that brought the bells of the Cape Town carillon to South Africa. Rutherfoord was known for his charity, generosity and piety. Towards the end of his life he was a member of the Legislative Council at the Cape. In 1864 his family erected a fountain in his memory in the Company Gardens. The English spelling of Cape Town suggests that the bell might only be some 150 years old. It would be highly doubtful that Rutherfoord himself has been involved in bell founding. We rather expect that the bell – like the much larger bell in the old church of Tulbagh – have been cast by an unknown founder on behalf of Rutherfoord as sponsor of the bells
B. B. Bloomfield Collection index
No full textThis index describes the B. B. Bloomfield collection and contains observations on establishing a sea port in Saldanha Bay. 1 letter (20 p.) in envelope ; 32 cm
Kaapse Afrikaanse toneelvereniging Collection index
No full textThis index describes the Kaapse Afrikaanse toneelvereniging collection and contains Minute book ; scrapbook ; programmes ; KAT-meetings ; correspondence ; plays ; newspaper clippings ; Labia Theatre correspondence ; Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of Southern Africa reports ; Afrikaanse Eisteddfod. 32 pamphlet boxes ; 42 cm
E. C. Pienaar Collection index
No full textThis index describes the E. C. Pienaar collection (MS 48) and contains correspondence ; lectures ; manuscripts of publications ; clippings ; speeches ; book reviews and reports ; documents regarding Afrikaans hymn book. 20 pamphlet boxes ; 42 cm
C. E. Viljoen Collection index
No full textThis index describes the C. E. Viljoen collection and contains photocopies of correspondence and clippings regarding
a national anthem for South Africa. Words by C.E. Viljoen and music by Sir J.H. Meiring Beck. Donated by Prof. Bun Booyens who received it via the Central Archives in
Pretoria in 1972. 2 pamphlet boxes (ca. 235 items) ; 42 cm
Goedvertrouw Estate, Botrivier (Overberg District)
No full textThe estate Goedvertrouw on the van der Stel Pass leading to the town of Botrivier, is home to a very uncommon type of bell. The maker's name does not appear on the bell itself, as is usually done with bronze bells, but on the yoke from which the bell is hung. The bell has suffered severely from hanging outside. As a result, a number of letters have faded. Fortunately, we found a “clean” copy of a similar bell on the internet. This helped to reconstruct the text on the yoke: THE GOULDS M’F’G CO, SENECA FALLS N.Y. where a letter A appears in the middle. The company to which these inscriptions refer is situated in Seneca Falls in the US-state of New York where it started in 1848. It specialized in industrial pumps. Between 1887 and 1890 Goulds MFG got involved in the casting of iron bells. A number of these products appear on websites, most commonly on lists of auctions
Willie Adams Collection index
No full textThis index describes the Willie Adams collection and contains journals, books, manuscripts and cassettes. The bulk of this collection is documents regarding the South Africa Council of Sport dated from 1980
-2005. Included in this collection is a myriad newspaper articles regarding apartheid in sport
St Augustine Anglican Church, Melkhoutfontein (Eden District)
No full textAs in most Anglican churches in the Western Cape, also here the bell hangs in a niche above the entrance of the church. Moreover, the niche hardly allows light that could help in discovering decorations on the bell. From what we could see, below the shoulder figures a broad decorative band in between moulding wires. There are three more such wires above the sound bow. We had to restrict our investigation with a sound recording
Johannes Papritz Collection index
No full textThis index describes the Johannes Papritz collection and contains a photocopied bound folio book entitled Professional
training programme of underdeveloped countries, by Dr. Johannes Papritz,
Marburg 1968, being a training programme for archivists. The collection also
includes a report of Dr. Papritz's travels in South Africa during 1968 and
information on the Hennecke machine plus covering letter
D. J. Opperman Collection index
No full textThis index describes the D. J. Opperman collection and contains inter alia original manuscripts of works by the poet D.J.
Opperman (1914-1985), documents in connection with Standpunte (1936-1956)
as well as two notebooks re spiritism. A 4-volume catalogue with index of the collection is available. An uncatalogued
supplement of the collection exists. See also the D.J. Opperman Collection, MS
45, which is a handwritten manuscript by Opperman of his poem Kroniek van
Kristien. Articles ; book reviews ; correspondence ; dramas ; clippings ; poetry ; personalia
; photographs ; translations and compositions of the poet's poems