Posts by Rudi Allmayer

The English version follows after the Afrikaans version Saamgestel en in Afrikaans vertaal deur Gerald Batt Hierbo is ‘n foto van so ‘n geboorde klip in my besit My !kwe Boesmanklip Vir geslagte lank praat mense in Suid-Afrika van sogenaamde “Boesmanklippe” – die afgeronde klippe met die netjies geboorde gate wat nog vandag op plase,…

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Saamgestel deur Gerald BattApril 2026 In die hartjie van Montagu in Du Toitstraat, het Archibald “Archie” Wallace Bernhardt oor baie jare sy stempel as mans haarkapper afgedruk. Sy naam en van was maar ‘n mondvol en die mense het sommer van ‘Arkie Barnard’ gepraat. Die eenvoudige haarkappersalon was meer as net ’n plek vir haresny…

NEDERDUITSE GEREFORMEERDE SENDINGGEMEENTE MONTAGU Hierdie verhaal is ‘n versameling dokumente wat poog om ‘n beeld te gee van die geskiedenis van die NGK Sendingkerk in Langstraat, Montagu. Die kern van die verhaal kom uit ‘n kerkgedenkbrosjure geskryf deur Ds. J.W. Carstens (Die brosjure is in die Montagu Museum-argief gevind) . 1891 – 1970(Gedenkbrosjure) Hierdie gedenkbrosjure…

Opgedateer: 22/05/2026 Inleiding deur Gerald Batt Montagu was deel van die Kaapstad → Worcester → Montagu posroete en die eerste poskantoorgebou in Montagu was ’n Victorian‑styl gebou bekend as “Eerstepos” by 18 Kerkstraat. So ‘n posroete was ook Montagu → Robertson → Bonnievale → Worcester met ‘n begin datum van 1853 vir vervoer van plaaslike…

The Afrikaans version is available on the link below https://montagumuseum.co.za/montagu-stories/pietersfontein-deel-3-van-3/ Part 3 covers Chapter 10 to 19(end) CHAPTER 10 How transport and farming equipment improved It’s probably because the roads were so bad and difficult at the beginning that farmers prior to 1900 only used the heavy bumper carts with eight draft animals, or traveled…

The Afrikaans version of this story has already been posted. Please see Part 2 of story number 72 by using the link below https://montagumuseum.co.za/montagu-stories/pietersfontein-deel-2-van-3/ Covers Chapters 4 to 9 Pietersfontein Chronicles continued CHAPTER 4 Ostrich farming During this time the ostrich farming started playing an increasingly important role, but since alfalfa was still being cultivated…

The last piece of the The Pietersfontein Project Some of the people who made this story possible Of the many Montagu stories I have been part of, the JFD Kriel story was one of the most educational and labour intensive I have tackled. The electronic versions of the story appearing on the Montagu Stories webpage…

Updated: 19/05/2026 The first chemist in Montagu. Balthazar Desvages Picture: Montagu Museum According to the above information which was found with Balthazar’s picture his chemist shop was in Bath Street. The reference made to Wahl’s above refers to a Montagu family who ran a business in a building which today houses PEP (66 Bath Street…

Updated: 19/05/2026 Note: English Follows the Afrikaans Frank Swart, boorling van Montagu en skoenmaker/Frank Swart, native of Montagu and cobblerdeur/by Heinie HeydenrychMontagu Mail March 2004 Frank Swart wys vir Heine Heydenrych die grootboek van sy pa vir 1932 – 1933. Frank Swart shows Heine Heydenrych his father’s ledger for 1932 – 1933. Op die hoek…