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Title: Newlands House, Newlands, Cape Town, 1934
Subject: Newlands (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development
Description: Newlands House in Newlands Avenue, Cape Town, before the front door was moved to the back of the house after the estate's sub-division in 1938.
Identifier: islandora:17477

Title: Foreshore freeway construction, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: View of the Foreshore, Cape Town, shows progress on the freeways. At the start of the major contract, which will provide about 1 km of elevated dual carriageways parallel to the harbour fence, Murray & Stewart (Cape Town) offered to cut six months from the contract time. Three years later, with allowable extensions, they are still ahead of that speeded-up schedule. This means that the project should be completed in September 1976. Allowing for escalation, the total value of the work now being handled on the freeways will be in the region of R21-million.
Identifier: islandora:15125

Title: High Constantia, Constantia, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town South Africa), Colonialism, Culture, Historic buildings, Urban development
Description: Rambling High Constantia, built by Robertson Fuller Bertram early this century, with its chimneys and gables. High Constantia - it has 29 bedrooms - [?] six acres of land was brought today (subject to confirmation) by Mr Duncan Taylor for - 0, 100[?] The seller was the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which received the property as a gift from Sir Henry Price, one of the founders of the Institute. The auctioneers were Zoutendyk and Brand, Ltd.
Identifier: islandora:17467

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: The old Heerengracht stream which flowed through this brickwork watercourse has been re-routed above the underground pedestrian walkway.
Identifier: islandora:17496

Title: Aerial view, Rondebosch Common, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban parks, City planning, Real estate development, Building
Description: Rondebosch Common: the clump of trees in the middle marks the site of Barnabas Shais Tabernacle and two graveyards. The aerial view of Rondebosch Common shows many of the places mentioned by Jose Burman in his article. A: The Camp Ground Road, flanked by a long strip of stone-pines. B: Park Road, running along the south side of the common. C: The newly built Milner Road North, completed in spite of the protests of lovers of the common. D: The group of pines which marks the place where the old chapel known as the Tabernacle once stood (there were also two graveyards there). E: The Red Cross Children's Hospital. F: The Rustenburg Girls' High School. The network of paths revealed by this photograph is hardly noticeable from the ground.
Identifier: islandora:16613

Title: Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, Cape Town, 1957
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Urban development, Building, Architecture, Environment
Description: Visitors and tourists who delight in capturing with their cameras the many beauty spots of the "Incomplete Cape" will recognize this familiar scene view of Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, taken from the Glen. Two aspects, however, combining ancient and modern features, are depicted here. In the foreground is the old and famous Round House tearoom, built originally as a shooting box for Lord Charles Somerset. On the left is the ancient Round House Annexe - the feature of which as a Youth Hostel has been the subject of recent municipal discussion. The modern aspect lies in the middle distance where part of the amazing development of Camps Bay can be seen.
Identifier: islandora:16948

Title: Old railway station, Cape Town, circa 1965
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Transport, Urban development
Description: Looking into the first railway station in Cape Town, from the Castle.
Identifier: islandora:17430

Title: House in Wale Street, Cape Town, 1951
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition, Urban development
Description: Old house at the top of Wale Street.
Identifier: islandora:17206

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: Bird's-eye view of Adderley Street, Cape Town, in the mid-1950s, before development on the newly-reclaimed Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:17368

Title: Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Buildings
Description: Taronga Road, Rondebosch.
Identifier: islandora:16617

Title: Wale Street Police Station before demolition, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Historic buildings, Demolition, Urban development
Description: An old landmark goes: the Old Dutch building in Wale Street known as "the old Wale Street Police Station", which is to make room for the new Provincial Administration offices and which is the subject of a query by REX (Leeuwendal-crescent), is one of the finest examples of the old "dark kamer" (roof chamber) type of old Dutch colonial architecture. One of the last, if not the last, of these fine buildings is the Martin Melck House in Strand-street. The "dark kamer" was a sort of domestic observation room from which the household could watch the arrival and departure of ships in Table Bay. The old Wale-street building was built in its present form in the later years of the eighteenth century. It was the early home of the Brand family, and in it Mayor G. B. van Zyl, M.P. for Sea Point, spent his early boyhood. The building was originally ornamented by one of the best of the pediments which Anton Anreith, the famous sculptor of that time, left as a heritage for posterity. The pediment, since lost, was of a martial design, with grapeshot and cannon-balls forming the motif of the design.. After many years as a police station the old building served for some time as a day nursery for working mothers.
Identifier: islandora:17186

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15108

Title: Black River Parkway construction, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Development, Transport, Building
Description: Three new road bridges straddle a section of the party-built Kromboom Parkway which is a major new link in a freeway system between the N9 and Westlake. It will be almost five years before the eight kilometre road is open to traffic. Eventually it will become a continuation of the Black River Parkway. The aerial picture shows three recently-completed bridges carrying Kromboom Road, Lansdowne Road and Racecourse Road over the freeway.
Identifier: islandora:16561

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: Bree Street, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Historic buildings, Motorcars
Description: Building dating to 1904 in Bree Street, Cape Town, 1978
Identifier: islandora:17505

Title: The recently completed canal that contains the Liesbeek River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Liesbeek River (South Africa), Water, Trees, Nature, Mountains, Building, Urban areas
Description: Gracefully curved concrete banks contain the Liesbeek for many miles and save hundreds of tons of earth which would otherwise be washed down to the sea in winter. Serious erosion is still taking place in the upper reaches of the river, but canalization is being steadily pushed forward. This picture, in a setting of oaks, shows work recently completed at Newlands.
Identifier: islandora:16575

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: 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: 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: 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

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