S1 - Ep 160 - Aberdeen - An Architectural Conservation Area in the Karoo!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2024
- After we crossed the border between the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape there was still some beautiful gravel road we travelled on before reaching the tar road leading to Aberdeen. We didn’t know that this small town was one of the architectural conservation areas of the Karoo. Driving through the Aberdeen area was like taking a step back into different time zones with all the different architectural designs. From Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Art Nouveau, Gothic Revival and Flemish Revival any traveller would love to see this all. Not to mention where the town is located, the huge Camdeboo plains to the one side and the mountain escarpment on the other. Enjoy! #DustBugs #adventuretravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #aberdeen #eastercape #camdeboo
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The grave of Stefanie Fouché belongs to my grandfather's sister. She passed away of whooping cough, 25 days before my grandfather was born. The graveyard used to be in pristine condition, right up to a few years ago. Apparently, it was all thanks to someone who took the upkeep upon himself, but who has since passed away.
Hello Hendrik - gedink ek sal jou hier kry! Pity some of the older homes weren't shown - Die Denne and Pagel House! I am so glad to see De Denne got it's old name back!
It was nice to see that you drove past my Oupa and Ouma's old house. We used to go to Aberdeen to visit them twice a year when we were children.
Outstanding trip through Aberdeen, be safe & drive safely.
Thank you so much, it was an extremely interesting first visit for us with loads to see. 👌🏻
Dankie vir die julle mededeelsaamheid, die geskiedenis en die tyd en moeite om teredugeer. Salute
You're very welcome! We love every moment on the road and the editing makes us relive all the fantastic things we saw on our trips! We appreciate you watching! 👍
Beautiful churches!
Lekke om met julle deer om deur ons land teruis dit is wonderlik! Lovely to travel with you G's trough our lovely contery, Th
We appreciate you watching our videos and are so glad to hear that you're enjoying them. Thank you! 😁🚗
Road to 800
And a very enjoyable one too, in more ways than one! 😁
Nice to see Aberdeen again, but also with great sadness. My friend since about 1975 use to live in that house on the corner on your left where you stood for quite some time at 9:13 on the video opposite the Magistrate's court. He passed away a few months ago. He was also the Town Clerk of Aberdeen for some time.
We're so sorry to hear about your friend's passing. 😥 If he were Town Clerk, we assume he had been in the area for a long time and it's always such a pity to lose someone like that who has become such a pillar of the local community. We hope his legacy will last for a long time to come. So this was a sad trip down memory lane for you.😏
@@DustBugsTravel Yes he worked with me for a long time and then went back to Aberdeen and was then Town Clerk before he retired. When I came to Aberdeen for the first time in 1974 they had a woman for a Town Clerk. 😃
@@deonzar That woman was Mrs von Waltsleben and I took over from her as Town Clerk in1983 for about 2 years. that dilapidated cemetery was once the pride of the town. One of my councillors, Auntie Bessie, looked after it like it was her own.
The mayor at that stage was Hennie Broeksma and the post master was Piet Brewis
@@leondekock9844 Were you there before or after Louis van Zyl?
Madelein .,, geniet dit hier nogal so mooi baie huise
The building at 9:01 that you refer to as a synagogue, is a house built by my great-grandfather Carl Friedrich Franz Maske. You will find his gravestone together with some other family members in the cemetery. He was the owner of the general dealer store next door. The house was named Carmen Villa after his daughter (my grandmother.) If you go inside the house there is a doorway between the house and the general dealer store that is now bricked closed. We had a large family re-union in that house in 2009 on the occasion of Carl's granddaughters 90th birthday, soon after the house had been extensively renovated. Aberdeen is also known for the town where Pagels Circus used to keep all their animals in the winter. There is a house called Pagel House where the owner stayed. In 2009 it was a B&B. In 2009 we attended a church service in that Methodist Church. At the time it was still operational. Very sad to see it looking in such poor condition.
What a treasure trove of information you shared, thank you so much for that! Your extensive knowledge of the town is very interesting, especially the fact that you have such a deep personal connection with it and its people. 😊 We found the info about Pagels Circus particularly intriguing, we never even knew about them.
They are attempting to reintroduce Quaggas via the Quagga project, hence my asking whether the "zebra" that you spotted on the farm on the way to McGregor was possibly one 😳. When we drove through Aberdeen, it was an overcast and gloomy day, its amazing what some brilliant sunlight can do for a place. Stunning Churches and Synagogue and Magistrates Court. One always asks what posseses a town council to approve buildings such as that red face brick single level structure on the right as you entered the town, especially a town so rich in architecture. I will never see a church steeple the same again after Merweville 😄. I love this channel. 😀
We honestly thought your previous comment about the quagga was tongue-in-cheek, we never knew about the Quagga Project. 😱 Wouldn't that be something! 🦓 It's all a question of timing, we also always comment to each other about how different one's perspective is of a place when the weather is rainy and overcast. We had good weather for the most part, with a spot of rain here and there, but lots of wind. The Eastern Cape is windy! 😁 You're always welcome on our travels, it's great that you enjoy them!
Used to stop at a coffee shop there near the magistrates Court. Really good to see how well kept the town looks
The town is really well worth a visit, glad you enjoyed the video. 😊 It sounds like you used to travel through there on business. For the size, it was certainly busy on the Monday we visited.
We love to watch your videos of your travels. You really go all.out to unravel alot in each little dorpie. Absolutely Love love the two of you chatting together and keeping it real. Stay the way you are.
Thank you so much! 😁 It's fantastic to hear that you enjoy watching our travels. We love exploring the little towns, they just have so much to offer and chatter about. 🤩
The house on the right at 11.33- 11.37 was ownd by me from 2006 - 2011. 2nd oldest proprty in the town. I also installed and operated the first high speed internet system to the farms in 2007 /2008, you can see the various antenna on the church if you look closely (its still in operation by a different company despite ICASA attempts to close it down !). I miss Aberdeen but I don't miss SA 'politics'
It was lovely to see Aberdeen again. My childhood friend had a B & B in the oldest house in town. He and his partner sold it in 2015, and they continued to live there. His partner passed away in 2019, and my friend passed away on 7 December 2022. He was only a month younger than I am. I'm still very sad about that.
Love Aberdeen. 2000 seats in this magnificent church. In the cemetery is the grave of Boer warrior John Alexander Baxter, age 22 when he excecute by British forces on 31.10.1901. Charge against him he was dressed in imperial uniform. His grandfather was from England. Member of Genl Smuts forces invading the Cape. The Voortrekker Charl Cilliers departure from the Camdeboo plaines, including my Voortrekker grandfather Ockert BRITS, b 1787....his farm was to the east in the Koup ..
Many of the cemeteries are vandalised. I recently tried to look for my ancestor graves (dating around 1800s) in Cradock, Graaff-Rienet and Middleburg. There's 8 documentated graves between those towns. Out of those 8 we could only find 1, there were many graves that were missing headstones.
It's a great pity you weren't able to find all your ancestors' graves. We're always really sad to see so many gravestones desecrated and unfortunately it's the case in most, if not all, cemeteries we visit. 😥
The house at 9 mins. called Carmen Villa was built in 1898, by Franz Maske, as described by my brother Colin.
It's current owner(Ralph Krall) bought it in 2010. Sadly he painted it the current " horrible" colour, and also enclosed the rambling stoep with hideous steel lattice grids. Ralph died in a car accident in 2018 en route to Graaff Reinet. The house is apparently for sale. The joinery/doors/architraves/flooring/balustrades to the staircase inside is beautiful.
Thank you for adding this interesting info! 👌🏻We can only imagine how beautiful the timberwork on the interior of the house must be. True craftsmen were most probably commissioned to do that. Another person who watched our video, also mentioned that they saw the property is currently up for sale. 🏡 I hope the purchaser restores the building to its former glory days, which must've been spectacular.
What a lovely place just loved all the flowers on the way there. Thank you
Aberdeen was a complete surprise to us with all the different building styles. We were so happy that we took the gravel road and saw all the flowers and wildlife. Glad you enjoyed it too. 🤩
Thankful for all these as I have not been been able to travel myself and can now do so - with you.
Welcome, we're so very happy that you joined us! 🚗😊 We will always have a place for you on the backseat as we visit and explore new and wonderful places. 🤩
If your viewers want to look inside the "Villa" at 9.01 its on the P24 website currently for sale, There may be other houses of interest too - up for sale on that site too. I find it fascinating to see how many original details have survived. Its clearly a town which has had great wealth, I assume from ostrich and merino farming - and its lovely to see it in such a tidy state too.Thanks for going to the graveyard - I love Victorian graveyards - they used to give so much information on the gravestones. They are very informative; sometimes one can find evidence of epidemics which swept through these communities wiping out whole families virtually...heartbreaking but somehow the people left, survived.
I always find graveyards fascinating knowing that every single grave has a lifetime's worth of stories to tell, no matter how short that lifetime may have been. I was particularly touched by the grave of the little girl. It's interesting that you mention that you saw that property for sale. In every town we travel through, the 'For Sale' boards are ever-present and we always wonder if those residents are moving to the city or to another small town. All part of the dynamics of any town, however big or small it may be. 🏘️
@@DustBugsTravel One feels the love those parents had for their 3 year old, it is very touching. When you look at these houses for sale - sometimes they are clearly probate properties. I find that really sad too - that its the treasured home now up for sale. So clearly full of many memories, which in years to come the family will regret selling, but at the time of sale they wanted the money even more.. It is the dynamics of life really - some come and some go. But more tend to go than come - it takes a special kind of person who wants to live away from the rat race.
@@nonibbs I spoke with an estate agent who said that our small towns are dying.
This particular town seems to have fared better than most.
The owners of the property that you mentioned escaped Cape Town to settle in Aberdeen.
That church is incredible! And very interesting information about the last kwagga, never knew that!
We could see the steeple from a long way away, towering above the town, it was stunning to see! ⛪ The town can really be very proud of this church building. It's sad when an animal species goes extinct, we could almost imagine spotting herds of them in the distance as we drove out of town. 🦓
Beautiful buildings.Surprised to see the graveyard haven't been robbed of the steel structures around the Graves. What a lovely place.
We had a really enjoyable visit to the town and the graveyard told so many stories! It's always good to see when history is honoured and preserved by the community. 👌🏻🏛️
Fun fact:Aberdeen is named after the town in Scotland of the same name.
I love the scenery
We do too! 😍 It's a stunningly beautiful area with the rugged and stark lines of the mountains as backdrop.
Looks like most back roads are doable in a SUV with ground clearance... definitely following your trip 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
We always appreciate you joining us on our travels! Most back roads are most certainly completely doable in normal sedan vehicles with high ground clearance, we've seen that time and time again. The only adjustment we make, is speed. We take it super slow and don't take any unnecessary chances. 🚗
I agree - give me a dirt road any day. I too have driven thousands and thousands of miles across SA in the last 20 years, in the average compact saloon car from a hire firm and never had any problems myself. My brother's father in law got a puncture on a dirt road outside Garies, but he was driving like a bat out of hell that day! It slowed us down no end! But that was the only problem we had. And the garage in Garies "sort of mended" it for us - when they handed the car back apparently the tyre was still leaking air . I had already parted company with them and was on my way to Durban for the rest of my vac, on the back roads. An SUV would just add unnecessary expense to the trip and I expect they like drinking petrol too. Another plus factor for dirt roads as well, I don't think I have ever been stopped for a licence check by the police, on a dirt road either...They seem to favour the tar roads..LOL
I did it in a Yaris recently, no problem
I traveled past there recently, approached from Beaufort West's side. What struck me was that the church was the dominant feature rising up over the horison on that road.
Yes! And we love that about these small towns, one can spot the steeple kilometres away. ⛪😍
Enjoyed this
That's great to hear, thank you! 😊
My great grandfather and grandfather were both Christened in the Methodist church. Simpson.
Thank you for sharing your Aberdeen connection with us. 😊💒 The town must have special meaning to you.
Love dis Chanel
Thank you! 🙂
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Sorry for the time delay but this was before I started following you around. Did you notice that at the top of the steeple there is a Springbuck and not the usual cock? It is the only one in SA
No, we didn't notice that! 😳 That's quite cool, although in that area I would've expected a sheep or a goat. 😁💒
That gallery (@ 9.00) s on the market if anyone is interested.
The owner succumbed in a vehicle accident.
How tragic! 😥 We hope the gallery falls into hands who can make the previous owner's dreams a reality. 🖼️
And Grahamstown has the highest Spire. (Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Anglican). Also, it's clock tower is the highest of all churches. Magastrate court was 1890. Interesting similarities
Wow, that's interesting! Actually amazing how different, yet how similar, some of these towns really are. Always something new to learn. Thank you for sharing, we look forward to exploring Grahamstown on a future trip! 👌🏻
And when are you guys coming to Burcke's Luck potholes? :)
Bourke's Luck is definitely on our list when we're lucky enough to visit Mpumalanga again. 🤩 It has been way too long!
Have you entered a dry fruit store in town?
Not in Aberdeen, no. We did visit a dry fruit shop in Montaque in the Western Cape. The dried mango and peaches were our favourite! 🥭🍑