The event that precipitated the KBHA’s formation was the opening of the Kalk Bay Community Centre in 1994. This former 1906 sewage pump station, then wartime SAWAS Recreational Centre, and finally Kalk Bay Library, had been extensively altered and adapted to new uses through a City Council – Private Partnership. It provided meeting spaces, storage
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Johannesburg from the Riverbanks: Navigating the Jukskei is an ambitious and timely contribution to Johannesburg studies. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by twenty-six contributors, the volume emerged largely from the 2023 Riparian Urbanism project and seeks to reposition the Jukskei River
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Somerset House was built in 1906 for the United Building Society. The building’s Edwardian classicism, symbolising stability and permanence, is attributed to architect R.L. McCowat. United moved to larger premises in 1928, and the building’s new owners replaced the facade’s arched windows with shopfronts and converted the banking hall into a retail arcade in 1930, but the basement safety deposit boxes remained until 2000.