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Post Offices GEYSDORP to GLEN URQUHART

GEYSDORP
Union to Republic
Area: Lichtenburg
1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
06.05.1903
(Aab)		 Union 13.05.1935
(Putzel)		  

GEYSER
24.02.1930 to 15.11.1937
07.02.1938 to 05.05.1941
16.02.1942 to Republic
Area: Pietersburg
1   2C "Bars + cross"    
(Putzel)		    

GEZINA (PRETORIA)
Union to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "TVL" First seen
03.11.1905
(Aab)		 Union 06.01.1921
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton
(Visser)		    
3   2C "(PRETORIA)"     06.01.195?
(Putzel)		    

GEZUBUSO
14.11.1921 to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

GHWARRIEBOS
06.05.1946 to 06.10.1952
Renamed to Pompwater
Area: Thabazimbi
Not recorded

GIDEONSRUS
03.09.1951 to Republic
Area: East of Pretoria
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

GIESENSKKRAAL
14.05.1923 to 09.01.1956
Area: Britstown
1   2C "Blank"     30.11.1936
(Putzel)		 21.02.1954
(Putzel)		  

GILEAD
18.07.1927 to Republic
Area: Potgietersrus
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		 Last seen
18.03.1975
(Putzel)		 30.12.1955
(Visser)		 Republic  

GILLITTS (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "NATAL"
Visser		 Asterisks on sides
Deteriorated to dots later

First seen
13.02.1900
(Aab)		 Union 06.08.1915
(Visser)		  
2 "RAIL" 2C "Blank" New discovery ??.04.1928
(Aab)		 05.06.1935
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"   RAIL removed 27.05.1958
(Putzel)		    

GINGINDLOVU
Union to Republic
Area: Zululand
1   2C "NATAL"   ??.10.1914
(Aab)		  
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "NATAL"   17.06.1915
(Aab)		  09.10.1915
(Visser)		  
3   1C "NATAL"
Visser		 Skeleton 06.03.1917
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Blank" Narrow O 24.09.1924
(Putzel)		  04.09.1936
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Bar"   17.12.1941
(Putzel)		 1942
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Blank" Large O 09.02.1943
(Aab)		 01.11.1949
(Putzel)		  
7   2C "Blank"   U above date 20.01.1959
(Putzel)		    

GINKELSRUS
20.03.1933 to 28.12.1936
Renamed from Detour
Area: Bronkhorstspruit
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   18.12.1936
(Visser)		    

GLADDEKLIPKOP
25.12.1933 to Republic
Area: Pietersburg
1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    

GLADIOLA
29.10.1934 to 19.01.1942
Area: Brandfort
1   2C "?"
Visser		   ??.10.1938
(Visser)		    

GLADSTONE
Union to 28.09.1953
Area: Stutterheim
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
 08.07.1901
(Frescura)		 Union 13.11.1938
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"   20.11.1943
(Putzel)		 12.10.1947
(Aab)		  

GLAUDINA
25.11.1935 to Republic
Area: Schweizer Reneke
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

GLEBELANDS
01.08.1944 to 12.11.1945
Area: Caledon
Not recorded

GLEN (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Bloemfontein
1   2C "R.O." First seen:
08.04.1905
(Putzel)		 Union 25.08.1918
(Visser)		  
2 S.O. 2C "O.R.C"
(Jan Bezuidenhout)		 First seen:
20.11.1905
(Putzel)		 Union 21.06.1913
(Jan Bezuidenhout)		  
3   2C "Blank"   ORC removed 13.12.1920
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Bars + cross"   07.06.1923
(Putzel)		 12.01.1955
(Aab)		  
5   1C "Blank" Skeleton 02.05.1949
(Aab)		 21.05.1949
(Visser)		  

GLEN ALMOND
Union to 30.11.1915
Area: Barkly East
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
 21.02.1904
(Frescura)		 Union 25.11.1911
(Frescura)		  

GLEN ASHLEY
11.10.1955 to 23.01.1961
Renamed to Norberg
Area: Durban
Not recorded

GLEN BAIN
Union to Republic
Area: Ixopo
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
Last seen
??.10.1902
(Aab)		 Union 22.12.1912
(Putzel)		  

GLENBRANDER
01.01.1917 to 01.02.1919
Area: Eastern Transvaal
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   03.10.1917
(Visser)		    

GLENCAIRN - SIMONSTOWN -
06.02.1952 to 27.06.1953
Area: Simonstown
Not recorded

GLENCAIRN - CATHCART -
Union to 26.05.1952
Renamed to Glen Roger
Area: Cathcart
1 "PO" 1C "Dot" First seen:
25.01.1897
(Frescura)		 Union ??.01.1925
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"   10.09.1943
(Visser)		 25.11.1943
(Aab)		  

GLENCOE (JUNCTION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Glencoe Junctio up to 1930
Area: Glencoe
1 "JUNCTION" 2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
First seen:
??.08.1901
(Putzel)		 Union 27.08.1911
(Aab)		  
2 "JUNCTION RAIL" 2C "Blank"   S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date		 16.04.1916
(Aab)		    
3 "JUNCTION" 2C "Blank" 9 to 3 o'clock
25 mm		 08.07.1918
(Aab)		 18.02.1920
(Aab)		  
4 "JUNCTION" 1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 30.05.1925
(Visser)		    
5 "JUNCTION" 2C "Blank" 8 to 4 o'clock
25 mm		 23.01.1926
(Putzel)		 06.02.1930
(Aab)		  
6 "JUNCTION" 2C "Blank"   29 mm 24.06.1926
(Putzel)		    
7   1C "Blank" Skeleton 03.02.1933
(Aab)		 02.03.1933
(Visser		  
8   2C "Bars + cross" 29 mm 26.05.1934
(Putzel		 20.07.1942
(Aab)		  
9   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 21.11.1946
(Visser)		    
10   2C "Bars + cross" 29 mm 22.12.1946
(Aab)		 10.09.1952
(Putzel		  
11   2C "Bars + cross" 25 mm 03.04.1940
(Putzel)		 03.04.1947
(Putzel		  

GLENCONNOR (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Uitenhage
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
08.12.1883
(Aab)		 Union 25.11.1913
((Johan
Bezuidenhout))		  
       
2   2C "Bars + cross"     1918
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"
Chris
vd. Spuy		   22.08.1928
(Putzel)		 05.05.1949
(Chris
vd. Spuy)		  
4 "/STA" 2C "Blank"
Edriek		  
(Edriek)		    

GLEN COWIE
1955 to Republic
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

GLENDALE
Union to Republic
Area: Stanger
1   1C "NATAL"
First seen
1908
(Aab)		  Union 25.11.1913
(Johan Bezuidenhout)		  
2   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Bar" Long thin lines
Relief

New discovery		 01.01.1956
(Aab)		    

GLEN ECHO
01.03.1919 to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "Bar"     09.05.1931
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"     04.08.1940
(Putzel)		    

GLENGARRY
Union to Republic
Area: Kokstad
1   2C "Bars + cross"     ??.06.1939
(Putzel)		    

GLENGAVEL
Union to 01.01.1912
Area: Bulwer
1   2C "NATAL" Crosses on sides
First seen:
24.11.1909
(Putzel)
 		 Union  06.01.1911
(Aab)		  

GLEN GREY
01.07.1915 to 21.12.1925
Area: Queenstown
1   2C "?"    
(Putzel)		    

GLEN HARMONY
09.02.1953 to Republic
Area: Virginia, OFS Gold Fields
1   2C "2" Index 2

Last seen:
16.08.1978
(Putzel)		 03.03.1955
(Aab)		 Republic  
2   2C "3" Index 3

New discovery		 13.02.1956
(Aab)		    

GLEN HARRY (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to 29.11.1954
Area: Graaff-Reinet
1   1C "CGH"
First seen:
13.08.1898
(Putzel)		 Union 06.09.1933
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"     13.02.1950
(Putzel)		    

GLENISLA
Union to 16.05.1960
Area: Estcourt
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides  12.11.1910
(Aab)		 19.08.1933
(Putzel)		  
       

GLENLENNIE
Union to 01.09.1910
Area: Harrismith
1   BONC "52" Withdrawn
Glenlennie
August 1910		      

GLENLYNDEN
Union to 18.10.1954
Area: Bedford
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
25.08.1882
(Aab)		 Union 09.04.1923
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"     06.09.1950
(Putzel)		    

GLEN LYON
01.01.1911 to Republic
Renamed from Rose Glen
Area: Postmasburg
1   2C "Bars + cross"     192?
(Visser)		 ??.07.1933
(Putzel)		  

GLEN ROCK
Union to Republic
Area: East of Bloemfontein
1   2C "O.R.C"   Using old ORC
postmark: 		21.04.1913
(Putzel)		    
(2)   2C "S.AFRICA"    First seen
29.06.1966		      

GLEN RODGER
26.05.1952 to 27.02.1956
Renamed from Glencairn, Cathcart
Area: Cathcart
Not recorded

GLENROY (RAIL)
01.07.1919 to Republic
Renamed from Rietvlei Rail
Area: Germiston
1 "RAIL" 2C "Bar"   11.04.1942
(Aab)		 194?
(Putzel)		  
2 "OKTOBER" 2C "Bar"
Visser		 Skeleton 16.10.1946
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank" Last seen:
17.11.1964
(Putzel)		 11.10.1949
(Aab)		 Republic  

GLENSIDE
01.12.1919 to 01.07.1920
01.12.1958 to Republic
Area: Dalton
1   2C "S.AFRICA"    
(Putzel)		    

GLENTHORN
01.04.1913 to Republic
Area: Adelaide
1   2C "S.AFRICA"   Last seen:
06.10.1977
(Putzel)		 15.09.1935
(Putzel)		 Republic  

GLEN URQUHART
1927 to 02.02.1931
Area: Ladysmith
1   2C "?"    
(Farrel)