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Title: Laying rails for electric trams, Cape Town, 1896
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Tramways, Roads, Urban development, Transport
Description: Laying the rails for electric Trams, Long Street, Cape Town. Published 23 April 1965.
Identifier: islandora:17375

Title: Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
Subject: Bloubergstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, City planning, Urban development, Environment
Description: High-rise development at Blouberg, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16891

Title: Aerial view, central Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Recreation, Environment, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa)
Description: Aerial view of central Cape Town from Mouille Point towards Devil's Peak, showing the Green Point Common and stadium, the central city and harbour.
Identifier: islandora:17027

Title: Land reclamation, Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Aerial views, Urban development, City planning, Building
Description: Cape Town Harbour and reclaimed land on the Foreshore, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17143

Title: Adderley Street shops, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Architecture, Culture
Description: Another bit of old Cape Town is about to disappear. The occupants of three little shops nestling on a corner at the top of Adderley Street - an optometrist, a button shop and a bookshop - have been ordered to move by the end of June.
Identifier: islandora:17034

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Cape Town Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:15075

Title: 17th century water canal, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1982
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: 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.
Identifier: islandora:17490

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Cape Town Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:15079

Title: Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town
Subject: Urban beautification, Streets, Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town. Landscape proposal, with tree planting plan. Includes tree planter elevation., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:200; elevation: 1:50
Identifier: islandora:22389

Title: Freeway construction, Woodstock, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: 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.
Identifier: islandora:15122

Title: Liesbeek River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Liesbeek River (South Africa), Water, Trees, Urban areas, Development, Recreation
Description: The heavy rains of the past two days, signalling the approach of winter, have appreciably raised the level of the Liesbeek River lake in Lower Observatory, which is planned as a future pleasure and boating resort for Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16577

Title: St. Georges Street, Cape Town, circa1894
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Historic buildings
Description: 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.
Identifier: islandora:15109

Title: Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town
Subject: Urban beautification, Streets, Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town. Landscape proposal (superceded). Includes tree planting plan., Copy printed on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:200
Identifier: islandora:22390

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1908
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Transport, Urban development, Tramways
Description: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1908. Electric trams, Cape carts and drays.
Identifier: islandora:17353

Title: Old Opera House, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Demolition, Urban development
Description: The old Opera House on the corner of Darling and Parliament Streets, Cape Town. Demolished in 1937.
Identifier: islandora:17215

Title: Aerial view, Atlantis ,Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, City planning, Urban development, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa),
Description: Aerial view of sub-economic housing construction in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16714

Title: Bellville South industrial area, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Industrialisation, Urban development, City planning, Environment
Description: Industrial development at Bellville South in the early 1960s
Identifier: islandora:16801

Title: Tearoom at Camps Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Environment, Mountains, Beaches, Urban development, History
Description: The construction of Victoria Road from Sea Point to Camps Bay, completed in 1887, provided impetus to the development of Camps Bay as a place for recreation. People were now able to cycle out to Camps Bay and enjoy the tidal pools, the Rotunda and concerts in the pavilion that had been developed. Shown here is the Pagoda tearoom, Camps Bay.
Identifier: islandora:16961

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Urban development, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Birth of the Foreshore. Small islands appear as sand is pumped from dredgers to make the new Foreshore in 1939.
Identifier: islandora:15084

Title: The Grand Parade, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Architecture, Commerce
Description: The Grand Parade, Cape Town, circa 1930s.
Identifier: islandora:17199

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