Old photograph of Zoo Lake (Sourced by Kathy Munro)
Zoo Lake (Kathy Munro)
Zoo Lake Area is part of the 81 ha presented to Johannesburg in 1904 by Wernher Beit and Co for the purpose of a public park to be known as Hermann Eckstein Park. The dam in this area (originally the old Braamfontein Farm) was enlarged in 1906 and the Coronation Fountain commissioned in 1937.
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Lower Park Drive, Parkview
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