PARKTOWN CENTENARY SOUVENIR: 1892 - 1992 THE PAST WITH A FUTURE BY D ADAMS, F BIRD &...

PARKTOWN CENTENARY SOUVENIR: 1892 - 1992 THE PAST WITH A FUTURE BY DON ADAMS, FLO BIRD, LEIGH JACKSON, CARMEN WELZ. SOFTCOVER, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN GOOD CONDITION.

"One hundred years ago, the stands in the about-to-be- proclaimed township of Park Town were laid out as away from the centre of the dust bowl that was then Johannesburg as they could be. Randlords flocked there. The Jameson Raid was plotted there. Lord Milner, eventually to reconstruct the remains of the shattered Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek and steer the province into becoming part of the Union of South Africa, lived there. Tracking the life of Parktown through the one hundred years of progress gives an incredible insight not only into the lives of its earlier inhabitants, but also into urban encroachment, redevelopment and the need for conservation. All this will be highlighted by the Parktown and Westcliff Heritage Trust in its Parktown Centenary Programme for 1992."