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South African Lighthouses Where they are and how to get there A rough guide to fellow explorers on the ins and outs regarding access to the lighthouses of South Africa.

Found this picture among my Fathers things.  Does anyone know which Lighthouse it is?  Perhaps Mossel Bay....I am uncert...
29/07/2017

Found this picture among my Fathers things. Does anyone know which Lighthouse it is? Perhaps Mossel Bay....I am uncertain?

Among my Fathers things. (Harry William Burchell)Removing photos from a small album which had belonged to my Great Grand...
23/07/2017

Among my Fathers things. (Harry William Burchell)

Removing photos from a small album which had belonged to my Great Grandfather William Ward, who was the Lighthouse Keeper at Cape Point lighthouse during the mid 1800's. I found these pictures. I removed them from the album to find two handwritten notes behind them. (I would assume in his handwriting.) To do with the construction of the new Lighthouse, which would have taken place during his time there. The x noted on the first photo is where the new Lighthouse was to be erected. (Belinda Burchell)

My Great Grandfather, William Ward and his family. Taken at Cape Point Lighthouse in the mid 1800's, He was the Lighthou...
23/07/2017

My Great Grandfather, William Ward and his family. Taken at Cape Point Lighthouse in the mid 1800's, He was the Lighthouse Keeper. My Grandmother back row, third from the left. They had 13 children. Three of them boys. Two of the boys died at a young age and are both buried at the Lighthouse. (Belinda Burchell)

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