Mystery of Abandoned South African Town - Abandoned Engineering - S04 E04 - Engineering Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2023
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This documentary is bunch of nonsense. Pilgrim's Rest was a gold mine town, and later museum town with alot of normal history. No sinister things that the producers tried to cook up.
The drama they try to cook up 🤦🏻♂️
The documentary is wrong to say that Pilgrims Rest is a Ghost Town. I visited the town a few times and enjoyed my stay.It's true the boom days of gold mining are gone , but the town has survived and is not abandoned, as the docu says.
Was in Pilgrims Rest a month ago, busy tourist location with shops, bars, restaurants etc. Definitely not abandoned 😂😂😂😂
My grandfather was responsible for keeping the Jubilee mine at Pilgrims Rest alive till he died in 1945. I discovered his story when a dejavu experience standing on a suspension bridge over the Blyde Canyon in the 60s caused me to ask of the Rand Mines geologist Buster Fowler, with whom we were staying near June Guest’s Royal Hotel, if the name JB Taylor meant anything to him. JB’s colourful life and times in the area and his connection to “Jock of the Bushveld” author Percy Fitzpatrick opened up a vista of landscape and memory I am privileged to now know about. Some time later I wrote and recorded a song about JB, that is on my RUclips channel. (Good luck finding it among the many other Nick Taylor’s online) 😉
I agree ... I have been taking visitors there for many years. A stay at The Royal Hotel is legend -- not to mention the attached pub that used to be a church, transported from Mozambique. The famous Robber's Grave etc etc etc. So odd 🤔 that such a good documentary got that wrong.😖 😖😖
Pilgrims rest is near Graskop and Sabie. They are all tourist hotspots and biking hotspots. Its not too far from Johannesburg so loads of people go there for weekends. The town is still there and is a heratige site. Loads of people go there for nature and hiking also.
I live in Graskop, 15km away from pilgrims rest! I have family and friends that live there... Believe me, that town is everything but abandoned.😂
14 h35 High up in the Makhonja mountain ridge(Wonder of the world )lies a town that was called "Eureka city" in the 1800.This town also was triving because of gold,but due to the high altitute this town was difficult to reach( there's even a tunnel that was dug through one of the mountains to make it easier to reach Eureka city by donkey which was the means of
Stop lying to people, Pilgrim rest is alive,its not a ghost town.. with people living there..its one of the tourist attractions when one visit mpumalanga province..
As a South African, the gold rush was part of our history curriculum. These days, kids are not taught about this.
I'm South African 🇿🇦 and weird I'm from 1988 born and bred and this story never got told to us so appreciate this episode for pilgrims rest which is 1 heck of a sad story and they want to talk smack about the boers which is sad they genuinely tried to help so that's the 1st problem. 2nd is the greed and economy and 3rd is eskom electricity and there is a 2000 megawatt hydro electric generator sitting there and no one is making new ones so we can get off the coal crap 😢 and no loadshedding
Ghost town, rubbish!!@ was there a month ago, tourists everywhere, bars, restaurants and shops. Johnnys pub is very popular with locals.
After being abandoned as a mining town, Pilgrims Rest was restored as a "living museum" town. The Hotel, Post Office, Railway Station, and numerous other places of interest were authentically renovated and restored to more or less their original condition, all fittings such as light fittings, toilets, baths, taps and even furniture where carefully sourced ANTIQUES. This was done to offer an authentic "time warp" experience for tourists. UNFORTUNATELY, the ANC came into power, and not to soon after, trucks arrived in the middle of the night, and anything of value suddenly disappeared. The town was quite literally stripped for CORRUPT financial gain. THE STORY OF AFRICA. 🤨
In regard to the SA segment, the "boers" in the Anglo-Boer war were not only from Dutch descent. My great grandfather was a "boer" as well, but was born in the United Kingdom.
What a load of BS!
I am from South Africa and visit Pilgram Rest regularly.
The Pilgrim's Rest portion must be some of the worst exaggerated documentary content I have seen. No mystery, no abandoned engineering, no ghost town.
Pilgrems Rest used to be a tourist hotspot at some point.....I remember as a child when we went to Kruger National Park...one of the only roads there went right thru Pilgrems Rest...until a highway around ot was built.....a number of small towns in that area suffered the same fate
That town of Pilgrimsrest is still very much alive.