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Post Offices BEACH to BEAUMONT

BEACH DURBAN
01.12.1916 to 01.04.1919
Renamed from Back Beach
Area: Durban

Not recoded

BEACH ISLAND
07.01.1952 to Republic
Area: Grootbrakrivier

Not recoded

BEACH TERMINUS
04.07.1927 to 31.01.1937
Area: Port Shepstone

1   2C "Blank"     22.08.193?
(Putzel)
   

BEACONHURST
29.04.1957 to Republic
Area: East London suburb

1   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
12.10.1962
(Putzel)
06.07.1959
(Putzel)
Republic  

BEACONSFIELD
Union to Republic
Area: Kimberley suburb

1   2C "Bars + cross" Name: 9-3 o'clock Union 08.11.1918
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank" Name: 10-2 o'clock 31.03.1911
(Frescura)
11.02.1925
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Bars + cross" Name: 9-3 o'clock
First seen:
 22.12.1905
(Frescura)
Union 24.04.1911
(Frescura)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross" Name: 8-4 o'clock
First seen: 05.02.1910
(Frescura)
Union 10.06.1910
(Aab)
 
5   2C "S.AFRICA"   ??.04.1914
(Aab)
27.02.1917
(Aab)
 
6   2C "Bar"   26.11.1922
(Aab)
24.04.1924
(Putzel)
 
7   2C "Blank" Last seen
1966
(Visser)
01.09.1925
(Aab)
11.09.1956
(Putzel)
 
8   2C "KIMBERLEY"     27.03.1959
(Putzel)
   
9   OVAL "BEACONSFIELD" Not recorded by Putzel 1932
(Aab)
   

BEACONSFIELD LOCATION
Union to Republic
Area: Kimberley suburb

1   1C "Blank"   First seen:
25.08.1908
(Frescura)
Union 05.07.1914
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "A"     09.07.1948
(Putzel)
   
3 "LOC" 1C "LOK"   Skeleton 09.06.1958
(Putzel)
   
4 "LOC/LOK" 2C "Blank" Last seen:
01.06.1963
(Aab)
 
04.10.1958
(Putzel)
Republic  

BEANS RIVER
26.10.1925 to 23.03.1948
Area: Sandflats next to Addo National Park

1   2C "Blank"   30.07.1929
(Putzel)
07.06.1945
(Aab)
 

BEATRIX STREET PRETORIA
01.11.1911 to 01.03.1915

Not recoded

BEATRIX VIEW
Listed 1960 to Republic
Area: Coligny

Not recoded
Known in Republic

BEAUFORT WEST
Union to Republic

1   2C "Bar + cross" First seen
30.07.1907

(Aab)
Union 05.04.1913
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Blank" South Afica
Zuid Afrika
in centre
28.08.1918
(Paterson)
01.11.1920
(Aab)
 
3   2C "Bar"   08.05.1922
(Aab)
21.08.1922
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Blank" 10 to 2 o'clock 19.06.1923
(Putzel)
17.09.1924
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Blank" 8:30 to 3:30 o'clock 02.08.1924
(Visser)
   
6   2C "Blank"   9 to 3 o'clock 03.12.1929
(Putzel)
10.12.1952
(Putzel)
 
7   1C "Blank"
Putzel
Skeleton 16.05.1926
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Bar"
Paterson
  23.04.1931
(Paterson)
19.10.1932
(Putzel)
 
9   2C "Blank" Names apart 06.08.1935
(Aab)
03.03.1936
(Putzel)
 
(10)   2C "Blank"   8 to 4 o'clock
First seen:
22.08.1961
     
11 "/WES" 2C "Blank" Bilingual
Wide U and R
04.05.1943
(Putzel)
02.12.1949
(Aab)
 
12 "/WES" 2C "Blank" Bilingual 25.04.1950
(Putzel)
22.02.1952
(Aab)
 
13   2C "WEST-WES"   Bilingual
Name top and bottom
08.03.1948
(Aab)
   
13 "/-WES" 2C "Blank"
Putzel
Second W ends below date 05.08.1955
(Putzel)
   
15   1C "?"   Skeleton
Only part postmark seen
     
16   2C "Thin lines" Relief type 3
Only part postmark seen
1959
(Visser)
   
17   2C "Thin lines"   Relief      

BEAUFORT WEST STATION (STASIE)
Union to 10.06.1914
01.05.1922 to 23.11.1936

1   1C "Blank"   25.11.1910
(Aab)
10.06.1914
(Aab)
 

BEAUMONT
Union to 01.07.1919
Area: Umkomaas

1   1C "NATAL" First seen:
03.01.1890
Union 04.08.1911
(Aab)
 

BEAUMONT STREET (JOHANNESBURG)
07.04.1947 to 19.12.1960
Area: Souther suburbs of Johannesburg

1   1C "Blank" New discovery 10.04.1947
(Aab)
   
2   2C "Blank"     08.10.1951
(Putzel)