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Post Offices CAMBRIA to CAPITAL PARK

CAMBRIA
Union to Republic
Area: Humansdorp
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
16.04.1901
(Frescura)		 Union 11.04.1914
(Frescura)		  

CAMBRIDGE
Union to Republic
Area: East London
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
 22.06.1907
(Frescura)		 Union 19.12.1918
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"
Ian Paterson		 SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 08.12.1919
(Aab)		 20.10.1931
(Ian
Paterson)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 27.09.192?
(Visser)		    
4   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"   02.03.1925
(Putzel)		 28.05.1935
(Aab)		  
5   2C "SOUTH AFRICA
SUID AFRIKA"		   14.04.1934
(Visser)		 03.07.1935
(Aab)		  
6   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"   South Africa
on the left
Cambridge at top		 20.07.1935
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Blank"   24.07.1936
(Putzel)		 03.10.1952
(Putzel)		  

CAMBRIDGE WES(T)
05.10.1950 to 10.12.1951
04.06.1956 to Republic
Area: East London
1   2C "Blank"     01.07.1959
(Putzel)		    

CAMELFORD (RAIL) (STATION)
01.06.1919 to Republic
Area: Christiana, Transvaal
1   2C "Bars + cross"     25.07.1928
(Putzel)		    
2 "/STA" 2C "Blank"   24.08.1956
(Ian
Paterson)		 1957
(Visser)		  

CAMELOT
26.06.1933 to Republic
Renamed from Fouriespruit
Area: Dannhauser, Natal
1   2C "Bars + cross"   Last seen:
01.04.1978
(Putzel)		 17.07.1933
(Putzel)		 Republic  

CAMERON'S GLEN
Union to Republic
Area: Bedford, Cape
1   1C "CGH" First seen: 11.02.1901
(Frescura)		 Union 12.01.1935
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 09.09.1918
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"   09.01.1940
(Putzel)		 1945
(Aab)		  

CAMGLEN
01.06.1920 to 03.01.1922
Area: Nelspruit
Not recorded

CAMPBELL
Union to Republic
Area: Kimberley
1   1C "Blank" First seen: 18.04.1901
(Frescura)		 Union 14.10.1913
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"   06.09.1917
(Aab)		 05.09.1923
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Bar"     13.07.1932
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 05.04.1932
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Blank"
Visser		   04.05.1935
(Visser)		    
6   2C "Blank"   07.09.1936
(Aab)		 05.03.1948
(Putzel)		  
7   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 194?
(Visser)		    

CAMPERDOWN
Union to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C NATAL Bars on sides
 

First seen
23.06.1906
(Aab)

 Union 03.06.1912
(Aab)		 30
2   2C "Blank"   11.02.1925
(Putzel)		 26.06.1935
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"   Smaller lettering 14.02.1951
(Aab)		    
       
4   2C "Blank"   8 to 4 o'clock 05.06.1957
(Aab)		    
5   2C "Blank"   Larger lettering 15.12.1959
(Aab)		    
6   2C "Blank"   8:30 to 3:30 o'clock

Last seen:
18.08.1978		 24.09.1957
(Aab)		 Republic  

CAMPS BAY
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
1   1C "Blank"
 		 First seen: 28.06.1905
(Aab)		 Union 26.01.1915
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		   05.11.1926
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Bar"
  30.08.1927
(Aab)		 13.08.1934
(Aab)		  
4   1C "Blank"
  27.12.1928
(Aab)		 03.01.1929
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Blank"
26 mm 05.02.1932
(Aab)		 17.02.1947
(Putzel)		  
       
6   2C "KAMPSBAAI"     28.11.1952
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Blank"   30 mm 01.09.1953
(Putzel)		    

CAMPSDRIFT
01.04.1946 to 03.05.1947
Area: Pietermaritzburg
Not recorded

CAMPTEN
15.10.1926 to 12.03.1928
Renamed to Rashoop
Area: Brits, Transvaal
Not recorded

CANADA STATION (RAIL)
Union to 20.04.1931
18.12.1933 to 26.11.1945
Renamed to New Canada Station
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen
14.02.1910
(Putzel)		 Union 22.08.1912
(Aab)		  
2 RAIL 2C "Blank" RAIL 15.05.1926
(Aab)		 03.08.1927
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Blank" STA 02.11.1934
(Putzel)		 19.06.1943
(Aab)		  

CANCELE
01.12.1912 to 1926?
02.01.1928 to 02.09.1957
Area: Mount Frere, Transkei
1   2C "S.AFRICA"     1923
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Bars + cross"     11.02.1934
(Putzel)		    

CANDOVER STATION (RAIL)
1927 to Republic
Area: Mkuzi, Zululand
1   2C "Blank"     28.08.1934
(Putzel)		    

CANELANDS STATION
20.05.1940 to Republic
Renamed from Umdhloti Station
Area: Verulam, Natal
1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    

CANTERBURY
21.02.1922 to 28.01.1924
Area: Pietersburg
1   2C "?"
Visser		   1923
(Visser)		    

CANTONMENT POTCHEFSTROOM
Union to 01.11.1914
01.09.1915 to 01.03.1919
1   1C "PSTROOM" Skeleton 17.09.1915
(Aab)		    
2   2C "POTCHEFSTROOM"   19.04.1918
(Aab)		    
CAPE POINT TO
 March 1877 to Union
Area: Cape Town
1   1C "CGH" First seen
01.01.1905
(Frescura)		 Union 02.01.1912
(Frescura)		 150

CAPE ROAD
01.08.1913 to 23.12.1957
Renamed to Cooper's Kloof
Area: Port Elizabeth
1 "PORT ELIZABETH" 2C "S. AFRICA" New discovery 17.01.1938
(Aab)		 1940
(Visser)		  
2 "/WEG" 2C "PORT ELIZABETH"   30 mm 30.12.1950
(Putzel)		 01.09.1953
(Putzel)		  
3 "/WEG" 2C "PORT ELIZABETH"   26 mm 08.12.1953
(Putzel)		 23.06.1957
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "PORT ELIZABETH"   29 mm
Only English		 10.01.1957
(Putzel)		    

CAPE SHOW
29.03.1954 to 03.04.1954
27.02.1959 to 07.03.1959
26.02.1960 to 05.03.1960
24.02.1961 to 04.03.1961
Area: Cape Town
Not recorded

CAPE ST. FRANCIS
Union to 30.03.1959
Area: ?
1   2C "Blank"   31 mm 29.08.1929
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Bars + cross"   South
above date
Africa
below date		 03.08.1936
(Putzel)		    

CAPE TOWN
See separate listing

CAPHILL
21.08.1922 to 28.11.1932
Renamed Waaipunt
Area: Victoria West
1   2C "Bars + cross"     12.08.1933
(Putzel)		    

CAPITAL PARK
26.11.1934 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "PRETORIA"   11.12.1939
(Putzel)		 08.08.1957
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
11.08.1978
(Putzel)		 06.10.1958
(Putzel)		 Republic