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Title: Gas explosion in Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1937
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical buildings, Utilities, Energy, Disasters
Description: The famous Adderley-street explosion.
Identifier: islandora:17352

Title: Gas explosion in Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1937
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Utilities, Energy, Disasters
Description: Explosion: When it came, it burst an Adderley Street water main. The Standard Bank building is behind the water jet.
Identifier: islandora:17346

Title: Gas explosion in Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1937
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Utilities, Energy, Disasters
Description: Another of Mr Akkersdyk's Adderley-street explosion "scoop" pictures.
Identifier: islandora:17351

Title: Gas explosion in Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1937
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Utilities, Energy, Disasters
Description: Devastation: the Heerengracht sewer, above, shattered by the gas explosion at the point where Mabel Stacey was crossing. The old Stuttafords store is on the immediate left, with Markhams, still in existence, on the next corner.
Identifier: islandora:17358

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