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Title: Cape Town Station forecourt, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Building, Transport
Description: Forecourt of the new Cape Town Station, 1968.
Identifier: islandora:17440

Title: St. Saviour's Anglican Church, Claremont, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Saviour's Church, Claremont, stands on five acres of lawns and trees. The original church, which was consecrated in 1850, was made of rough mountain stone and had a thatched roof. Since then six bays, a new chancel, a lady chapel and vestry accommodation have been added.
Identifier: islandora:17298

Title: St Paul's Anglican Church, Signal Hill, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Paul's was consecrated in 1880 and serves a large Anglican community living in the city and on the slopes of Signal Hill. Built in traditional English style, it has seating for 900 people and on high festivals there is standing room only.
Identifier: islandora:17282

Title: Wale Street Baptist Church, Cape Town, 1965
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
Description: Another landmark to go: the Baptist Church in Wale Street which will be closing next Sunday and moving to new premises in Orange Street, where services will be conducted for the first time on March 14. The Wale Street building will taken over by a property firm and demolished.
Identifier: islandora:17291

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Building
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15095

Title: Dutch Reformed Church, Vredelust, Cape Town, 1957
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Typical of the modern architectural styles at Vredelust are [from left] the Dutch Reformed church [a timber-gabled home and a glass-walled lounge].
Identifier: islandora:17294

Title: Central Cape Town, 1948
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Urban development, Architecture, Building
Description: Cape Town's changing skyline: the changing sky-line of the centre of Cape Town is emphasised in this picture, taken yesterday from the top of the Colosseum building. The massive new business block on the old G.P.O. site in Adderley Street (seen on right) has already reached its designed height of eight stories, rising 120 feet from street level. Before final completion next year, however, this imposing city block will have two 40-feet corner towers on the roof fronting Adderley Street, making an [WORD CUT OFF] height of 160 feet from [WORD CUT OFF] to pavement. Although this building will still be dwarfed by the S. A. Mutual, whose pinnacle (seen in background) is 276 feet above the street level, and by the new Post Office (to the left), the trio of buildings already obliterate many familiar vistas when viewed from the angle of street pedestrians. The City Hall (on extreme left) appears very small by comparison. The railway station building (in foreground) will eventually disappear to provide for the Strand-street extension under the new Foreshore scheme.
Identifier: islandora:17343

Title: St. Thomas Church, Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), circa 1920, Church buildings, Architecture
Description: St Thomas Church, Rondebosch. The church as it is today, seen from almost the same angle. Though the photograph was taken in 1920, there have been no structural changes since then.
Identifier: islandora:16623

Title: Steam trains at Cape Town Station, circa 1900
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Transport, Architecture
Description: Left: Wynberg Tower Cape 3rd Class, 1898. Right: Wynberg Tank Class 02, 1882.
Identifier: islandora:17414

Title: Granger Bay Court, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
Subject: Granger Bay Court (Cape Town, South Africa), Office buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Granger Bay Court, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town. Landscaping proposal: Dock Road elevation (line drawing)., Tracing paper copy of the hand-drawn original., Elevation: scale 1:200
Identifier: islandora:22436

Title: Bell for St. Martin's Lutheran Church, Cape Town, circa 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church bells, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: 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.
Identifier: islandora:17277

Title: Baptist Church at Meadowridge, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Meadowridge (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Baptist Church at Meadowridge, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17337

Title: Sendinggestig, Cape Town, 1967
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
Description: 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.]
Identifier: islandora:17301

Title: Ons Huisie, Blouberg, Cape Town
Subject: Bloubergstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Historical monuments, Architecture, Building
Description: "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.
Identifier: islandora:16885

Title: Holy Trinity Church of the Church of England, Cape Town, 1967
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: 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.
Identifier: islandora:17299

Title: Government Avenue, Company's Gardens, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Recreation, Botanical gardens, Historic buildings, Architecture
Description: Taking a stroll down Government Avenue through the Company's Gardens and next to the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 1968.
Identifier: islandora:17251

Title: Church of Christ, Scientist, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Churches of the Peninsula: Church of Christ Scientist in Orange Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17333

Title: Leeuwenhof exterior, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Public buildings, Architecture
Description: 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.
Identifier: islandora:17264

Title: Near old Cape Town Station, pre-1960s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition, Transport
Description: Area around the old Cape Town Station, prior to its demolition in the 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:17437

Title: Old Post Office, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1950
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Communication, Architecture
Description: The old Post Office in Adderley Street, constructed of Saldana Bay stone on the site of the old Commercial Exchange
Identifier: islandora:17202

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