BOOK REVIEWS

I purchased this book when it first appeared and have long felt gratitude to the editor and the publisher (Könemann) for this substantial and expensive undertaking. My own interest in photography has grown out of the need to document South African buildings and heritage places. So often old photographs are our only reference point for how things looked in the past.

 

BLUE PLAQUES

This house was designed by Percival Hill Mitchelson in 1904 for Stanley Archibald Markham Pritchard who joined the Cape Mounted Rifles in 1892 and was transferred to Basutoland Mounted Police in 1898. He came to Johannesburg in 1901 to work in what was then called the Native Affairs Department. In the First World War Colonel Pritchard commanded the SA Native Labour Corps in France.