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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)