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Title: The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Building, Afrikaners
Description: An example of the office building accommodation available in Bellville's growing central business district district is this modern building society block. The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville was officially opened this week by Dr C.F. Albertyn. In addition to the shopping space on the ground floor, there are seven floors of office space and the banking hall also provides for art exhibitions. Saambou now owns buildings in Bellville valued at more than R1 500 000. With office accommodation in big demand in the rapidly developing Tygeberg area, office blocks are going up all over. One of the latest and largest blocks is the Saambou National Building, opened towards the end of last year. This building offers shopping space on the ground floor and seven floors of office space.
Identifier: islandora:16830

Title: Bellville railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railways, Architecture, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Transport
Description: Entrance to the Bellville Station, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16811

Title: Lowenstein Estate, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Urban development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture, City planning, Environment
Description: Lowenstein Estate: An area of 291 morgen opposite the Karl Bremer Hospital on the northern side of the national road to Bellville (shown as white lines) has been sold for township development at a price of R550,000. The property ,which belonged to the Duminy family for a long time, has been acquired by Mr. K. W. Bates, of London, and Mr. Allen, of Johannesburg, after negotiations through John Bowie and Co. (Pty) Ltd. in collaboration with Mr. L. Howe. It is the intention to development the area in conjunction with Bellville Municipality and make it the Bishopscourt of the area. It will be laid out in 703 residential sites of between 10,000 and 25,000 sq. ft. each. There will be a school site of 12 acres facing the national road, a shopping centre of 4 acres and a flat site of 5 acres. Possibly a company will be formed to build the houses to accepted minimum qualifications.
Identifier: islandora:16787

Title: Cape Dutch farmhouse, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, History, Cape Dutch architecture, Architecture, Farms
Description: Cape Dutch farm building at Lowenstein, Bellville, Cape Town,
Identifier: islandora:16804

Title: Office workers in Bellville,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Apartheid, Commerce, Architecture, Office workers
Description: Three floors of office workers are seen in this picture of the inside of a big Bellville office block. Bellville has many fine commercial buildings and more are being built.
Identifier: islandora:16795

Title: Bellville, Cape Town, 1970s
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Business, Urban development, Architecture, Transport
Description: Shopping in Bellville, heart of the Tygerberg.
Identifier: islandora:16827

Title: Civic Centre, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, Civil society, Local government, Architecture
Description: The Civic Centre at Bellville where the annual congress of the Cape Western Regional Publicity Association will be opened by the Mayor of Bellville, Mr. W. J. Bezuidenhout, to-day. The Civic Centre contains a civic theatre, council chamber and administrative offices. A city hall will be added in 1967. The "Cape Times" will publish next Wednesday, November 4, a special supplement on the great progress that has been made in recent years at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16785

Title: Blomtuin Estate, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Housing, Afrikaners, Architecture, Urban development
Description: Apartheid-era housing development in Cape Town's northern suburbs in the mid-1960s
Identifier: islandora:16809

Title: Bellville shopping centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Afrikaners, Commerce, Architecture
Description: Water fountain in a Bellville shopping centre, early 1970s
Identifier: islandora:16780

Title: Housing development, Bellville
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Housing, Afrikaners, Architecture, Urban development
Description: Apartheid-era housing development at Welgemoed, Bellville, looking up Goewerneur St.
Identifier: islandora:16810

Title: Clock tower, Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Local government, Civil services, Architecture, Afrikaners
Description: The pulse of civic life in Bellville - the Civic Centre with its impressive clock tower.
Identifier: islandora:16791

Title: Apartheid-era Bellville South Community Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, Coloured people (South Africa), Local government, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The modern frontage of the Community Centre in Bellville South, part of a large complex.
Identifier: islandora:16819

Title: Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, City planning, Afrikaners, Building
Description: Aerial view of central Bellville in the 1970s
Identifier: islandora:16779

Title: Loewenstein farmstead, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, History, Cape Dutch architecture, Architecture, Fires
Description: Loewenstein destroyed by fire (historic home).
Identifier: islandora:16806

Title: Construction of Sanlamhof office block, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Building, Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Commerce
Description: Work ahead of schedule. Work on Bellville's biggest office block, Sanlamhof, is well ahead of schedule and when the contractors, Murray and Stewart, go on holiday they will have met all their deadlines to date. They moved on to the Sanlamhof site in June last year with two definite hand-over dates required of them. But Christmas last year they were asked to add a further (fourth) floor of 2000 sq m to the Sanlamhof block and by Christmas of this year to complete five further floors on top of the lower floors. In addition, they had to erect a 280 sq m service core (consisting of four lifts, toilets) to one side of the enlarged complex and to install the top half of a new central lift shaft so that it can eventually serve the new floors as well. All these deadlines will be met on schedule.
Identifier: islandora:16828

Title: Loewenstein farmstead, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, History, Cape Dutch, Architecture, Fires
Description: Loewenstein: 18th century, Dutch-style home overlooking Bellville destroyed by a fire.
Identifier: islandora:16805

Title: Sabel Centre, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Commerce, Afrikaners, Architecture
Description: Sabel Centre in Bellville, Cape Town, with Truworths as the anchor tenant in the late 1970s
Identifier: islandora:16832

Title: Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Afrikaners, Buildings, Architecture, Civil services
Description: 1970s architecture: Bellville Civic Centre and clock tower
Identifier: islandora:16776

Title: Apartheid-era public library at Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Children, Education
Description: Bellville public library in the mid-1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16803

Title: Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, City planning, Local government, Architecture
Description: Bellville Civic Centre in the mid-1960s
Identifier: islandora:16817

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