High Street bridge – a new way up

BACK in 1884, the official surveyor of the newly proclaimed Nieuwe Republiek, HK Maarschalk, was given instructions to survey and lay out a town, to which on September 23, 1884, was given the name “Vryheid”. The town we know today as Vryheid, from North Street to South Street, and from East Street to West Street, adheres to Maarschalk’s original plans. And it seems that since then, East Street was the only way to drive up Vryheid Berg.
That’s all about to change. The contractor this week was establishing a site at the top (north) end of High Street. Currently High Street stops at the railway trachs, and then continues on the other side up to the dirt road that leads to the water reservoirs and Environment Centre. A new bridge across the railway tracks with join these two stretches of High Street together, creating a second route up the hill.