Stanford in the past

A glimpse of Stanford's streets and buildings in earlier years.

Donkey cart parade outside the old Stanford Municipality building

Yellow arcaded building with a red roof along a village street — Yellow plastered building with an arcaded verandah and a red roof

Cream corner building with a corrugated verandah and white double doors

Cream gabled building with a red roof and a long verandah on a street corner — Cream gabled building with a red roof and a long verandah

Green thatched cottage with white quoins and a brown door, mountains behind — Green thatched cottage with white quoins, mountains behind

Slaghuis Stanford Butchery shopfront with a bakkie and a Volkswagen Kombi parked outside — Slaghuis Stanford Butchery shopfront, with a long verandah alongside

Pink gabled house with a blue roof and a verandah, on a gravel road — Pink gabled house in Cape Dutch Revival style, with a verandah

Pink gabled houses with decorative gables along a village street — Pink plastered houses with Cape Dutch Revival gables and sash windows

Whitewashed cottage with a dark roof, a verandah and a green door in the gable end — Whitewashed cottage with a verandah and a gable-end attic door

White house with two pointed gables, a pink roof and a verandah — White house with two pointed gables and a verandah

Long verandah with decorative iron railings on a whitewashed building — Whitewashed building with a long verandah and decorative iron railings

Whitewashed cottages with black roofs and aloes beside a gravel road — Whitewashed cottages with black roofs and diamond-shaped windows

Whitewashed thatched cottage with yellow window frames and mountains behind — Thatched cottage with a Cape Dutch Revival gable and yellow window frames

Cottage with a long verandah and a ladder to a loft door, beside a gravel road — Cottage with a long verandah and a ladder to the loft

Whitewashed cottage with a dark roof and a green picket fence beside a dirt road — Whitewashed cottage with a dark corrugated roof and a green picket fence

Cream cottage with dormer windows and a green striped awning over the front door — Cream cottage with dormer windows and a striped awning over the door

View down a gravel road to the mountains, with cottages on either side — View down a gravel road, with cottages and mountains beyond

Small whitewashed barn and lean-to beside a young orchard

Hand-coloured view over the valley towards the mountains, with a figure in the foreground — Hand-coloured view over the valley towards the mountains

Whitewashed buildings with a verandah and iron railings along a village street — Whitewashed buildings with a verandah and iron railings along a street

Historic photographs from Stanford 150: Portrait of a Village by Annalize Mouton (Village Life, 2008), used with acknowledgement.

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