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Title: Demolition of the old railway station, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Demolition, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: Down it comes: A workman, perched about 40 ft. above the ground, uses an oxy-acetylene torch to cut through one of the steel girders which supported the curved roof of the main hall of Cape Town's old railway station. A foreman on the site said yesterday that demolition of the building is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
Identifier: islandora:17401

Title: Old wine cellar at Koornhoop in Mowbray, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Residential buildings, Farmhouses, Dovecotes, ,
Description: The old wine cellar at Koornhoop, Mowbray. It was later decided not to proclaim the house and wine cellar, as it would cost too much to keep them in repair, so only the dovecote and gables were proclaimed. This dovecote was said to be the only one of its kind in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:15428

Title: UCT Ballet Company in rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road
Subject: Ballerinas, Ballet dancers,
Description: Members of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Ballet Company in the dance studio rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road, Rosebank. 2nd from left (at the back): Veronica Paeper. On the right: Janice Illingworth and Basil Poole.
Identifier: islandora:13647

Title: UCT Ballet Company in rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road
Subject: Ballerinas, Ballet dancers,
Description: University of Cape Town (UCT) Ballet Company in the dance studio rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road, Rosebank. Four females in arabesque.
Identifier: islandora:13168

Title: Rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road
Subject: Ballerinas, Ballet dancers,
Description: A female member of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Ballet Company makes a cup of tea in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road, Rosebank.
Identifier: islandora:13163

Title: Old Town House, Greenmarket Square
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Old Town House (Cape Town, South Africa), Courtyards--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans
Description: Old Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town, Western Cape. Preliminary sketch plan. Landscape proposal for the upgrading of the courtyard of the Old Town House on Greenmarket Square in Cape Town., Plan: scale 1:50
Identifier: islandora:22689

Title: UCT Ballet Company in rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road
Subject: Ballerinas, Ballet dancers
Description: Female members of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Ballet Company in the dance studio rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road, Rosebank. 3rd from left: Adanda Lambrechts.
Identifier: islandora:13166

Title: Old man Gerrick returns to the mountain
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, elderly man, portrait, horseback, San (African people)--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Rites and ceremonies, San (African people)--Drakensberg Mountains--Rites and ceremonies, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12430

Title: UCT Ballet Company in rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road
Subject: Ballerinas, Ballet dancers
Description: Members of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Ballet Company in the dance studio rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road, Rosebank. Being lifted are (left to right): Lynne Buchet, Avril Bergengren, [unidentified], [unidentified].
Identifier: islandora:14120

Title: Aerial view of the old station in Cape Town, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Historic sites
Description: Aerial view of the old station in Cape Town, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16159

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 man Gerrick returns to the mountain
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, elderly man, horseback, San (African people)--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Rites and ceremonies, San (African people)--Drakensberg Mountains--Rites and ceremonies, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12433

Title: UCT Ballet Company in rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road
Subject: Male dancers, Ballet dancers,
Description: University of Cape Town (UCT) Ballet Company in the dance studio rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road, Rosebank. Far right: Dudley Davies.
Identifier: islandora:13644

Title: Old Opera House, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Demolition, Urban development
Description: The old Opera House on the corner of Darling and Parliament Streets, Cape Town. Demolished in 1937.
Identifier: islandora:17215

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

Title: UCT Ballet Company in rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road
Subject: Ballerinas, Ballet dancers,
Description: A female member of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Ballet Company stands at the door to the dance studio rehearsal room in the old Hangar on Woolsack Road, Rosebank.This is the back door leading onto Woolsack Road (which was then still a dirt road leading up to The Woolsack - a Herbert Baker building which Cecil John Rhodes had built for his friend Rudyard Kipling as a vacation house.)
Identifier: islandora:14118

Title: The Old Pier comes down, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), History, Development, Demolition
Description: "Timber!" ... And down comes the popular Old Pier, a big social centre, to make way for the developments in the harbour. The year was 1940. The photograph is one of 150 on view at the Shell gallery recording "100 years of news photographs" which is being presented as part of the Cape Times Centenary celebrations.
Identifier: islandora:17953

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