| PLACE AND STREET NAMES OF PRETORIA
AAMBEELD STREET: SILVERTONDALE 1
Anvil: used in industry; an iron block, with a smooth flat face, on which the malleable metals are hammered and shaped. They are of all sized, from the tiny anvils used by the watchmaker.
ABELMOSK AVENUE: LOTUS GARDENS
Abelmoschus tetrahyllos, a plant of India from which fibre is made and used like jute which it resembles.
ABEONA STREET: SUIDERBERG
A sailing ship used to transport the 1820 Settlers to the Cape Province. On one of its journeys carrying William Russel’s party, it caught fire at sea and sank; 100 of the party being lost, 27 were picked up and carried back to England
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