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Jul 21, 20211 min read
PAT'S MATRIC CLASS REUNION
NOTE : All the people in the above photograph are also to be found on the Sub B class photo above it. Nicolene (Spamer) also taught that...
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Jul 17, 20213 min read
FAMILY "HEIRLOOMS" & MEMORABILIA
Family “treasures” are seldom of much intrinsic value and are usually smaller items which bind us to the people who used to own them, by...
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Jul 15, 20216 min read
WE LOVED RADIO
Elsewhere I have touched on the central position radio occupied in our early lives. Without television and with just a smattering of...
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Jul 15, 202120 min read
DAD AS I KNEW HIM (Part 3)
Eventually, in 1958, the Roads Department decided Dad should be moved to Ladybrand. I think Dad was overjoyed at the transfer because he...
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Jul 15, 202117 min read
DAD AS I KNEW HIM (Part 2)
Dad was officially discharged from the Army in September 1946. He and Mom presumably moved to Winburg sometime in 1946 where he returned...
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Jul 15, 20219 min read
DAD AS I KNEW HIM (Part 1)
JOHN BOYD LYLE Dad was born to CHARLES GORDON LYLE and FLORENCE JANE LYLE (nee SEABROOK) on 31 July 1906 in Bloemfontein. John Boyd Lyle...
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Jul 14, 20215 min read
MY SCIENCE FICTION ADDICTION
Throughout my life, my two main interests were music and Science Fiction. I was a keen reader of just about anything from an early age...
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Jul 14, 20213 min read
FUN AT POSTMASBURG
This little mining town is quite a distance West of Kimberley. Manganese and iron is mined in the district and the army combat training...
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Jul 14, 20217 min read
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
THE STERKSPRUIT U.F.O. Apart from being an ardent music fanatic, I also collect and read science fiction. I have done so from quite an...
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Jul 13, 202111 min read
ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSICIANS
EDMUNDO ROS & I When I was a kid, I was an avid fan of the radio. A set was always on in our home and I listened to everything that was...
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Jul 13, 20215 min read
ENCOUNTERS WITH CELEBRITIES
CLIFF RICHARD In 1976 I was auditing the ledger department, in the Smith Street East branch of Barclays Bank. Suddenly all the clattering...
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Jul 13, 202113 min read
MY ARMY DAYS
I wish I could say I enjoyed my time in the army but I really didn’t – I hated every second of it. I’m sorry to say that the Defence...
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Jul 12, 202149 min read
MY LADYBRAND YEARS
I fell in love with Ladybrand the moment we came over the apex of the Platberg and there far below, lay the lights of the town. Dad had a...
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Jul 12, 202141 min read
MY EARLY YEARS IN WINBURG & TROMPSBURG
I was born in Kroonstad and while I was still a baby, we moved to Winburg. I naturally recall very little of those early days. Mom’s...
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Jul 11, 202130 min read
MOM AS I KNEW HER
GLADYS MAY LYLE (nee VON SCHLICHT) Mom was born to HERMANN HUGO GEORGE VON SCHLICHT and RUBY GLADYS VON SCHLICHT (nee KING) on 8 May 1923...
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Jul 11, 20212 min read
FAMILY TREE FOR JOHN BOYD LYLE
Descendants of John Boyd Lyle Generation No. 1 1. JOHN BOYD9 LYLE (CHARLES GORDON8, CHARLES7, THOMAS6, JOHN5, JOHN4, JOHN3, WALTER2,...
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Jul 11, 20212 min read
DES TEMPLER
In 1980, in the company of the late Des Templer, I helped audit Otjiwarongo branch in Namibia. Des was an easygoing, gentle fellow, not...
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Jul 10, 202111 min read
MR D.W. SHARP (DAVE)
I did not work with Dave for very long. I had short spells of one or two branches with him – places like Piet Retief, Greytown, Mooi...
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