Loved it Al - thanks for the mention. My favourite comment was the GPS asking you for directions, ha ha ha. Indeed the internet is filled with all sorts of weird and wonderful things - you just need to know where and how to dig for it. Cheers.
I have just discovered your channel and I am really enjoying it. Please do an episode on The wreck of the Grosvenor. I read a book on it a few years ago and found it so interesting. I have also visited the site many times on fishing trips. I would love to see you cover the story. Keep up the good work.
Thanks very much! I appreciate the encouragement. The Grosvenor and associated accounts have taken on mystical proportions. If I'm ever able to get to that area, I'd love to make an episode about it. As it is, this is an unpaid hobby for me, so I just organise episodes around business trips and other travel.
I didn't know that about my hometown. Thanks. If you ever want to do a family history program, the Annandale family history in South Africa might interest you. From a single 1820 Settler who landed near East London, From Scottish parents, born in London, George Annandale married a Boer and his decendants ended up fighting in the Mogato Uprising, the Jameson Raid, and on into the Boer War against the British. There are Annandale graves at the Irene Concentration Camp. There was an Annandale arrested with Robey Leibrandt during WWII. Maybe your researcher knows more about this.
Please do something on what seem to be the endless Main Reef Road like it was before the name changed and how it ran from Krugersdorp to Germiston and beyond.
I would love to do a similar project. There was a brilliant series called Main Reef Rd in the 90's. Unfortunately, only the trailer remains to be found on RU-vid.
Now you putting me back to when I had to do visits to Rustenburg for work and sometimes I would come thru Krugersdorp on Main Reef Road. Got lost a few times and cried a lot. No GPS.
My earliest years were living on a gold mine or prospecting a gold mine. Regardless of how much gold has been mined there is more than was removed in the mines of the Witwatersrand. Children absorb adult conversations without understanding until years later. I can remember hearing men conversing, they were talking about how gold seams were covered up and never mined. There were areas were there was danger of deep sinkholes with houses disappearing. The west rand was a danger area. So maybe some day the gold will come to the surface.
In randpark ridge, one of the original houses, when I was a child I remember something of the sort. They've kept the structure but its also a complex I believe, I remember it burning down as a child, in the 1990s😂 not that long ago thou
Paul Kruger apparently disliked Johannesburg intensely and grudgingly gave it the beautiful Rissik street post office building - since reduced to a ruin. The development of Pretoria was his focus.
