Article from the 28th edition of the Heidelberg/Nigel Herald, by Eugene Viljoen.
On September 23, Tony Burisch of the Heidelberg Heritage Association awarded the latest blue plaque for heritage to 42 Begeman Street. 

The plaque is no 60 in the series of plaques for Heritage Status.
 

Fanie Bronkhorst died at the battle at Modderbult on December 24, 1900and his brother Jacobus died in Ladismith on January 3, 1900. Both brothers are buried in the Heidelberg Kloof Cemetery. 
According to records the first owner,  JF Ziervogel,  was a medical doctor in the area at one time. Dr Ziervogel and his wife Susanna Hartley Smith Cawood had seven children born in wedlock. 
It is believed that the house was built in about 1890.

The workshop on the premises was built in about 1935/1936 for Francis C Maude. 
Maude was the owner of Attjanbell Cabinet Works.
Christo and Melinda van der Merwe, owners of the Diamante en Goud shop in Heidelberg started and renovated the shop in 1980. They moved into the premises as a business in 1992.
The Van der Merwe’s have been Heidelberg residents for 43 years.