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Title: Kelly's Tower on Lansdowne Road, Cape Town
Subject: Historic sites, Infrastructure, ,
Description: The famous Cape landmark, Kelly's Tower, on Lansdowne Road in Phillipi was demolished yesterday to make way for roadworks. Left: The tower just before demolition.
Identifier: islandora:15818

Title: Aerial view of Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Residential buildings, Railroads, ,
Description: In the centre of the picture is the beginning of a new station for Mitchell's Plain. In the foreground are three-unit and four-unit dwellings nearing completion.
Identifier: islandora:15343

Title: Site where construction will soon take place, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, ,
Description: Observatory site on which Cape Town's Leon Pascall Organisation is to develop a R2 1/2- million high-rise building containing an hotel, a medical centre, a shopping complex, parking garage and service station.
Identifier: islandora:15579

Title: Opening of the Muizenberg Pavilion, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Relaxation, Historic buildings, ,
Description: Muizenberg pavilion opened: This was the opening day of the Muizenberg Pavilion on December 14, 1929. Built at a cost of some £200 000 it was destined to last only only about 40 years, for the demolition started on this building towards the end of 1970. This brick and stone building replaced the old wooden pavilion with its wooden-slatted promenade deck that served bathers and visitors alike to this most popular of South African beaches. This pavilion which was opened by the Cape Administrator of the time, Mr J.H. Conradie, consisted of three sections - the bathing cubicles, the tearoom-restauraunt and a theatre seating about 900.
Identifier: islandora:15381

Title: Aerial view of Muizenberg
Subject: Infrastructure, Residential buildings, Ocean, ,
Description: Muizenberg, with all its natural attractions, has its car-parks and beaches crowded by visitors for only a comparitively short period of the year. Most of the time it looks like this.
Identifier: islandora:15400

Title: Woodbridge Island Bridge, Cape Town
Subject: Water, Infrastructure, ,
Description: First Milnerton had the best view of Cape Town, then one of the finest racecourses in the Cape. Now it has a prize-winning bridge. The Woodbridge Island bridge has been judged runner-up for the 1985 Fulton Award, given by the Concrete Society of Southern Africa for excellence in the use of concrete in the building and civil engineering structures. The R1,4 Million bridge was built by an underwater construction company in a record time of four-and-a-half months from design to completion.
Identifier: islandora:15308

Title: The closing down of hotels, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Hotels, Historic buildings, ,
Description: The Rio Grande Hotel, the 11th to close down there in about 10 years and the fourth to be used for the aged. / Witnesses of past grandeur.
Identifier: islandora:15383

Title: Oudekraal sold, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Property development, ,
Description: Oudekraal, the landmark estate of the coast between Camps Bay and Llandudno, was sold for R405 000 today to Mr Mel Miller of Cape Town. Potential buyers and onlookers braved a cold and blustery day to sip champagne on the veranda while they waited for the outdoor auction to begin. The auctioneer, Mr Gavin Durr, welcomed clients from overseas, from elsewhere in South Africa, and Cape Town. Bidding started R150 000.
Identifier: islandora:15624

Title: Muizenberg from Boyes Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Historic districts, ,
Description: An old photograph of Muizenberg from Boyes Drive - "a revival of tourism would once again return this lovely surburb to its earlier grandeur."
Identifier: islandora:15382

Title: Aerial view of Muizenberg, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Residential buildings, Ocean, ,
Description: Right: The beach front at Muizenberg soon after sunrise on a clear winter's morning. This photograph shows the area of beach once occupied by the now demolished Muizenberg Pavilion.
Identifier: islandora:15396

Title: Aerial view of Nyanga, Cape Town
Subject: Landscapes, Infrastructure, ,
Description: This is Nyanga, where police patrols were active this week after the riots at Langa on Monday night. / Nyanga - township for Natives on the outskirts of Cape Town is well planned, but many of the houses are temporary structures erected by the Natives themselves, until modern brick homes can be built for them.
Identifier: islandora:15601

Title: Muizenberg Pavilion in ruins, Cape Town
Subject: Ruined buildings, Infrastructure, ,
Description: Crumbling concrete and fallen walls - this is the scene of devastation at the Muizenberg Pavilion where many of us have whiled a warm summer evening playing "table football" at the amusement stands, attended a variety concert or a political meeting. Right: As it was in its hey-day.
Identifier: islandora:15385

Title: Loader Street residences to be demolished for parking space, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Infrastructure, Wrecking, Historic districts, ,
Description: Some of the Loader Street houses to be demolished by the Department of Community Development which plans to convert the area into parking space.
Identifier: islandora:15208

Title: Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden
Subject: Infrastructure, Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden (Roodepoort, South Africa), Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden (Roodepoort, South Africa), Botanical gardens--South Africa--Roodepoort, Storm water retention basins--South Africa--Roodepoort,
Description: Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, Roodepoort, Gauteng. Diagram 13: Drawing of a stormwater retention basin. Notes on proposed service infrastructure, including electricity, water and fencing. Extract from report., Copy of original, hand-drawn, ink on paper.
Identifier: islandora:28168

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