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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: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1908
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Transport, Urban development, Tramways
Description: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1908. Electric trams, Cape carts and drays.
Identifier: islandora:17353

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: Kloof Street, Cape Town, 1951
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Communications, Historic buildings, Telephones
Description: The United Tobacco Company's buildings in Kloof Street Cape Town, on which the Government is to spend £170, 000, on the purchase and conversion into a new telephone exchange which will provide 4,000 more telephones in the area. This picture was taken from the top of Signal Hill with a telephoto lens.
Identifier: islandora:17510

Title: Man compares a photograph of a street in the Malayan Quarter to what it looks like now, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Residential buildings, Historic districs, ,
Description: Mr Austen compares the old with the new. Bo-Kaap Malay Quarter.
Identifier: islandora:15170

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: Dutch Reformed Church Centre, Cape Town, 1965
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, Historical, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Dutch Reformed Church Centre in Orange Street, Cape Town, which will be officially opened on October 21.
Identifier: islandora:17315

Title: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, 1954. Cape Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17336

Title: Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1969
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, City planning, Transport
Description: Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, 1969.
Identifier: islandora:17442

Title: YMCA Building, Long Street, Cape Town, circa 1989
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development, Conservation of natural resources
Description: Restoration: The old YMCA building at 44 Long Street sold by the Cape Town Heritage Trust to the National Parks Board for R500 000. The Building, sold subject to the new requirements, is to be the new southern region head office of the Parks Board.
Identifier: islandora:17443

Title: Dutch Reformed Sending Kerk (Mission Church), Long Street, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Church buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Suid-Afrikaanse Sending Gestig (D.R. Sendingkerk); Dutch Reformed Church in Long Street, Cape Town, 1966
Identifier: islandora:17332

Title: Church of the Visitation, Constantia, Cape Town, 1979
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The Northern facade of the Church of the Visitation, showing Julian Elliott's controversial design.
Identifier: islandora:17316

Title: Old Slave Tree, Church Square, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Slaves, Colonialism, Historical monuments, Architecture
Description: You've read the column: now see the picture. It's that long-vanished Church Square landmark, the old slave tree.
Identifier: islandora:17482

Title: Original St George's Grammar School, Central Cape Town, 1986
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Historical monuments, Schools
Description: St. George's Grammar School Building designed by Sir Herbert Baker in 1904 and declared a National Monument on Friday 27th June.
Identifier: islandora:17468

Title: Restoration at Lutheran Church, Strand Street, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Restoration
Description: Workmen are repairing and restoring the historic Lutheran Church in Strand Street, the country's oldest building and one of a number of fine examples of 18th Century architecture in Strand Street. The copper spire, dominated by an orb and crown on the weathervane, is being painted to preserve it from the effects of sea air and pollution. The Rev Charles Ellefson, minister of the church, said it was last painted and repaired in 1970 when storm winds blew off the corrugated iron roof.
Identifier: islandora:17275

Title: YWCA Building, Long Street, Cape Town, circa 1979
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development, City planning
Description: The future of the old YWCA building, a fine example of Victorian architecture in Long Street is in the balance. The old YWCA building, or No. 76 to 80 Long Street, is listed in the definitive work, Buildings of Central Cape Town, as being Victorian with a distinctive cast of double level veranda. On the second floor a panel reads 'In memory of Minnie and Maria Bam, Founded 1886 Rebuilt 1903.'
Identifier: islandora:17444

Title: Plantation on Lion's Head, Cape Town,
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Forestry, Environment, Religion, Historical monuments
Description: Gum tree plantation on Lion's Head is being continued along the Lion's Rump, the ridge of Signal Hill. Soon the grave in the foreground where Malay priests and their followers pray in the sunshine will be in the shadow of alien trees.
Identifier: islandora:17112

Title: Plaque about District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination, Christianity
Description: Plaque at Cape Town Church
Identifier: islandora:17338

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, circa 1930s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Transport, Roads, Urban development
Description: Adderley Street, Cape Town, at night, before closure of the tramways in 1939.
Identifier: islandora:17370

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