Sujet

Lower St. George's Street, Cape Town, South Africa, c1900? Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Lower St. George's Street, Cape Town, South Africa, c1900? 'A few years ago the view of the sea at the lower end of St. George's Street, was obstructed by several very unsightly buildings. In 1895 the Town Council determined to improve this part of the city, and succeeded, by arbitration, in having these old rookeries removed, and rearranged the line of the street so that there was a clear opening to the Bay. One of two merchants owing property in the locality, with commendable enterprise, then erected a row of handsome buildings, so that now it is one of the best thoroughfares of Cape Town'. From a photograph by Mathews.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A46_163

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,5Mo (5,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 34,9cm / 4960 x 4119 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building buildings South Africa architecture country balcony balconies metal column pillar pillars South African Cape Town colonnade location Victorian collection century Colonial iron B&W street scene archive cast iron colonnades Architectural Feature 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century colonialism TGN outside street photograph St George's Street Unknown The National Archives Heritage Art 19th-century The National Archives UK TNA