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Bell for St. Martin's Lutheran Church, Cape Town, circa 1961
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Church bells, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
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Description
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Weighing more than one ton, this church bell, cast in Germany, will be hung in the German Lutheran Church (St. Martin's), Long Street. Discussing ways of getting the bell into the tower are (from left) Mr P. E. Ulm, Mr W. Nossek, Mr K. H. Naumann, pastor at the church, and Mr C. A. Angermann, representative in Cape Town of the bell manufacturers.
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Identifier
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islandora:17277
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17th century water canal, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1982
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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Description
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Water canal found in city: Council workers laying water pipes in Adderley Street stopped digging when archaeologist, Miss Gabebah Abrahams peered down the hole and discovered a 17th century water canal. Miss Abrahams, 25, who says she makes a habit of looking into holes, saw a levelling of stone where the workers were digging which seemed to be a wall. Further excavations unearthed a canal which seems to connect to the wall. The canal runs under Adderley Street and joins up with canals running from Government Avenue up Wale Street to Long Street and Buitengracht Street. CASTLE: The mortar and brickwork is the same as the wall of Wagenaar's Reservoir, unearthed in the Golden Acre. Miss Abrahams said it was of the same period as the Castle and was probably built in the 17th century during the Dutch occupation of the Cape. "There used to be a moat around the Houses of Parliament. The ducts could have led into this to carry water off", she said. "This is one of the oldest structures in Cape Town . People are digging up valuable cultural and historical material all the time and they don't know about it. We are losing the history of Cape Town", she added. Miss Abrahams also found some clay pipe, an old bottle base, porcelain, bone and pottery, which date back to the 17th century. The porcelain is the same type as that discovered in the Golden Acre. Some of the canal will be demolished when the City Council lays water pipes.
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Identifier
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islandora:17490
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Freeway construction, Woodstock, Cape Town
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Subject
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Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
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Description
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Formwork on the city side lane of the freeway over the Culemborg goods yards has now linked up and the deck should be complete with six weeks. The Woodstock lane will be finished well under the five months, thereby enabling the contractors to finish the R 4-million contract three months ahead of the December 3 contract completion date. A spokesman for the contractors said the speed of the work was due in part to the co-operation of South African Railways who 'did all they could to allow us to work unhindered by their traffic,' and to the relatively few south-easters this summer. Cranes had been used 15 percent more than usual for this time of the year.
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Identifier
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islandora:15122
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Protest, St. Georges Cathedral, Cape Town
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Subject
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Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Church buildings, Roads, Motorcars
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Description
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Protesters line the streets outside St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
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Identifier
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islandora:16448
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Sendinggestig, Cape Town, 1967
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
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Description
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Link with the past: This is the 163-year-old Sendinggestig in Long Street, which may soon be demolished, in spite of efforts by the Historical monuments Commission to have it preserved. [See report and another picture, page 20.]
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Identifier
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islandora:17301
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St. Georges Street, Cape Town, circa1894
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Subject
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Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Historic buildings
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Description
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Eighty years ago, about 1894, this is what the top of St. George's Street looked like, with the post office then occupying the site at the corner of Church Street later making way for the Cape Times Building, until in recent years it has been renamed Fairbairn Building. The double-storeyed building on the immediate right was re-built into the Argus Building. The handsome old St. George's Cathedral has long since been demolished.
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Identifier
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islandora:15109
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Ons Huisie, Blouberg, Cape Town
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Subject
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Bloubergstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Historical monuments, Architecture, Building
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Description
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"Ons Huisie," one of the oldest houses in the Blouberg - Milnerton area, has recently been restored to its former graceful simplicity. This Blouberg-strand landmark has now been opened as a restaurant.
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Identifier
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islandora:16885
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Holy Trinity Church of the Church of England, Cape Town, 1967
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Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
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The site on which the first Roman Catholic church in South Africa was built, and on which one of the oldest Anglican churches in the country now stands, will be sold at public auction next month. Holy Trinity Church of the Church of England in South Africa was completed in 1846 in Harrington Street, in what is now District Six, Cape Town.
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Identifier
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islandora:17299
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Government Avenue, Company's Gardens, Cape Town
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Recreation, Botanical gardens, Historic buildings, Architecture
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Taking a stroll down Government Avenue through the Company's Gardens and next to the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 1968.
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Identifier
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islandora:17251
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Church of Christ, Scientist, Cape Town
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
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Description
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Churches of the Peninsula: Church of Christ Scientist in Orange Street, Cape Town.
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Identifier
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islandora:17333
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Leeuwenhof exterior, Cape Town, 1966
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Public buildings, Architecture
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Description
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Exterior of Leeuwenhof, acquired in 1936 by the Cape Provincial Administration for the official residence of the Administrator of the Cape Province and proclaimed a national monument in 1966.
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Identifier
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islandora:17264
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Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
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Insurance -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Fire risk assessment -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Maps.
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The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
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Identifier
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islandora:19891
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Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
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Insurance--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Fire risk assessment--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
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The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
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Identifier
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islandora:19824
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Morgan's timber yard chimney, Cape Town
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Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Roads, Demolition, Building
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This old Small and Morgan's timber yard chimney was built in 1916 and now is about to be knocked down to make way for the Foreshore-Western Boulevard road link.
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Identifier
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islandora:17037
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Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1908
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Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Transport, Urban development, Tramways
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Description
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Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1908. Electric trams, Cape carts and drays.
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Identifier
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islandora:17353
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Old Opera House, Cape Town
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Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Demolition, Urban development
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The old Opera House on the corner of Darling and Parliament Streets, Cape Town. Demolished in 1937.
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Identifier
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islandora:17215
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Kloof Street, Cape Town, 1951
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Cape Town (South Africa), Communications, Historic buildings, Telephones
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Description
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The United Tobacco Company's buildings in Kloof Street Cape Town, on which the Government is to spend £170, 000, on the purchase and conversion into a new telephone exchange which will provide 4,000 more telephones in the area. This picture was taken from the top of Signal Hill with a telephoto lens.
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Identifier
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islandora:17510