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Matjiesfontein - ox wagon
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Matjiesfontein - old cart
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Matjiesfontein - Transport Museum
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Matjiesfontein - inside old bus
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Matjiesfontein - Inside the old London bus... could do with some love and attention
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Matjiesfontein - Conditions of Carriage in old London bus
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Matjiesfontein - we were lucky to catch the special bus tour with the Blue Train passengers
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Matjiesfontein - Site of the original cricket pitch where the first international cricket match was played in South Africa
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Matjiesfontein - Inside the Museum
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Matjiesfontein - Inside the Museum
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Matjiesfontein - Inside the Museum
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Matjiesfontein - Inside the Museum
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Matjiesfontein - Inside the museum
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Matjiesfontein - Inside the museum
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Matjiesfontein - Masonic House
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Matjiesfontein - Coffee Shop
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Matjiesfontein - Post Office
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Matjiesfontein - Old London Bus in which we did the 10 minute tour through the town
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Matjiesfontein - Curried Karoo Lamb for me and Fish and Chips for Chnatel at the Lairds Arms
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Matjiesfontein - Coat of Arms on crockery
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Matjiesfontein - Rear of the hotel
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Matjiesfontein - Helen Zille's tree that she planted
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Matjiesfontein - Tour Guide and Entertainer
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Matjiesfontein - Lord Milner's Residence
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Matjiesfontein - Lord Milner's Residence
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Matjiesfontein - View of the Royal Room with the cricket trophy
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Matjiesfontein - Tour through the Royal Room in Lord Milner's Residence
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Matjiesfontein - We got a tour of Lord Milner's Residence
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Matjiesfontein - Lairds Arms bar... unchnaged for over 100 years
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Matjiesfontein - Floorboards in doorway to Lairds Arms
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Matjiesfontein - Lairds Arms old menu from 26 November 1902
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Matjiesfontein - inside the Lairds Arms
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Matjiesfontein - Lairds Arms where we had lunch
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Karoo stone between Sutherland and Matjiesfontein
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Found the geoache at the Northern Cape border
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Boundary between Western and Northern Cape
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Northern Cape and Sutherland in the distance
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Bush outside of Sutherland
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Old Graveyard at Sutherland - Trooper D Burnett of the 5th Lancers died 1901
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Old Graveyard at Sutherland - Wife just over 26 years old died in 1883
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Old Graveyard at Sutherland - just over 5 years old
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Old Graveyard at Sutherland
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Old Graveyard at Sutherland
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Old Graveyard at Sutherland
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Some original church benches
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Old Organ pipes
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Old organ which worked with the pipes
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Graffitti from English soldiers during the Anglo-Boer Waron Clock Tower door
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Graffitti from English soldiers during the Anglo-Boer Waron Clock Tower door
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Graffitti from English soldiers during the Anglo-Boer Waron Clock Tower door
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Graffitti from English soldiers during the Anglo-Boer Waron Clock Tower door
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - View up the Clock Tower
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Dominee Henry Sutherland after whom the town is named
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Staircase
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Additional Books of the Bible still included
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Front page of big Bible
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Detailed illustrations inside big Bible
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Inside the Childrens Bible
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - One of the first Afrikaans Childrens Bibles
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Another old wheelchair and a model cake used for a wedding with a key that also fitted the couple's new house
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Original organ and an old wheelchair
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Tool used to lay foundation stone (looks like a cake lifter)
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Original Hearse in use
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Building the church
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NG Church at Sutherland - Boer War
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Old Hearing Device
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - Clock
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - old organ from Germany
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Inside the NG Church at Sutherland - we had a guided tour - wood imported from England and Scotland
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Dominee HW van der Merwe at Sutherland - apparently quite a tyrant
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Original church at Sutherland that was moved to make way for the new one
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Karoo medicinal plant in Sutherland
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Chisel marks on stone from building the church
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NG Church in Sutherland Foundation Stone - 3 months to carve and then it broke on installation
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Night shot of the church at Sutherland
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Night view of Perlman House Restaurant and Pub with full moon peaking over the roof and the local pub goers vehicles outside
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Wonderful Springbok Potjie (R80 or US$10) and Chantel's Pizza at Perlman House Restaurant in Sutherland... both large portions
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Perlman House Restaurant and Pub where we had supper in Sutherland... bar has young people in it
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Peek inside a typical lounge in a Karoo hotel... only tyhe TV is new
