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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)