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Post Offices BOOPLAATS to BOSCHPOORT

BOOPLAATS
Union to 1953
Renamed to Boplaas (Humansdorp)
Area: Humansdorp
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		   26.08.1911
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Blank"   05.09.1927
(Aab)		 03.11.1931
(Putzel)		  

BOOWAGENDRIFT
01.03.1919 to 1953
Renamed to Bo-Wadrif
Area: ?
1   2C "Bar"     02.08.1943
(Putzel)		    

BOOYSENS
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
1 "T.S.O." 2C "JOHANNESBURG"     25.08.1933
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG" "T.S.O."
removed		 15.07.1939
(Putzel)		 29.06.1944
(Aab)		  
3   2C "JOHANNESBURG" Last seen:
01.06.1962
(Putzel)		 22.05.1950
(Aab)		 Republic  
4   2C "JOHANNESBURG" Different first "S" in Booysens 25.07.1957
(Putzel)		 03.10.1958
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Blank"     04.04.1957
(Putzel)		    

BOOYSENS CAMP
01.01.1915 to 01.08.1915
Area: Johannesburg
1   1C "Blank"   01.04.1915
(Visser)		 10.05.1915
(Aab)		  

BOOYSENS RESERVE
Union to 10.12.1951
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "T.S.O.
JOHANNESBURG"		     25.06.1936
(Putzel)		    

BOPHELONG
13.11.1950 to Republic
African township
Area: Vereeniging
1   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
14.08.1978
(Putzel)		 08.11.1955
(Putzel)		 Republic  

BOPLAAS - Caledon -
1953 to 01.07.1946
Renamed from Bovenplaats
Renamed to Solitaire
Area: Caledon
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 New discovery 1946
(Visser)		    

BOPLAAS - Humansdorp -
1953 to 06.06.1955
Renamed from Booplaats
Area: Humansdorp
Not recorded

BORCHERS
12.08.1953 to 08.12.1958
Area: Louis Trichardt
Not recorded

BORDEAUX
Union to 01.09.1912
Area: Frankfort OFS
1   BONC "73" ORC BONC on Transvaal
(Aab)		    

BORDER (STATION) (RAIL) (SIDING)
Union to Republic
Area: Border of CGH and Transvaal
1   2C "Bars + cross" SIDING

Last seen: 17.12.1907
(Aab)		 Union 20.12.1917
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "S.AFRICA" RAIL 01.08.1916
(Putzel)		 04.06.1933
(Aab)		  
3   2C "CAPE/KAAP"   STA
(Station)		 03.03.1943
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Bars + cross" BORDER only 23.09.1946
(Putzel)		 ??.08.1947
(Aab)		  

BOSBOKRAND
1952 or 1953 to Republic
Renamed from Bushbuck Ridge
Area: On the border of the Kruger Park
1   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 29.06.1954
(Visser)		    
1   2C "Blank"  
(Aab)		 24.10.1955
(Putzel)		  

BOSCHFONTEIN
Union to 1952 or 1953
Renamed to Bosfontein
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "Asterisk" Asterisk in
early postmarks		 24.05.1935
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  

BOSCHHOEK
Union to 02.03.1925
Renamed to Joubertsdal
Area: Rustenburg
1   3C "Star"   First seen
1908
(Visser)		 Union 02.04.1920
(Putzel)		  

BOSCHKOPJES
01.09.1911 to 01.07.1913
Renamed Groot Spelonken Rail
Area: Pietersburg
1   3C "Star"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

BOSCHPAN
Union to 01.02.1912
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   24.09.1910
(Aab)		 ??.01.1911
(Visser)		  

BOSCHPOORT
Union to 1953 (1955)
Renamed to Bospoort
Postal agent
Area: Rustenburg
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" Still using Boschpoort after name change 11.05.1916
(Aab)		 1956
(Aab)