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Gardens (or The Gardens) is an affluent inner-city suburb of Cape Town located just to the south of the city centre located in the higher elevations of the "City Bowl" and directly beneath Table Mountain and Lion's Head. It is home to several national museums such as Iziko South African National Gallery and the Iziko South African Museum.
The first Woolworths store, in the stately dining room of The Royal Hotel, Cape Town. Braai-related display inside a Woolworths store in The Constantia Village shopping center, in Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa. The choice of name came from Sonnenberg's friendship with a London shipper and financier, Percy (P.R.) Lewis.
The Company's Garden is the oldest garden in South Africa, a park and heritage site located in central Cape Town. [1] The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape.
Tamboerskloof is a neighbourhood and suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. [3] It lies on the slopes of Lion's Head and Signal Hill, adjacent to the neighbourhoods of Gardens and Bo-Kaap. Tamboerskloof is one of the contiguous group of neighbourhoods referred to as the City Bowl.
Leeuwenhof is an estate in the Gardens area of Cape Town, South Africa.It is the official residence of the Premier of the Western Cape. [1] Leeuwenhof was originally a farmhouse dating to the time of the Dutch East India Company's rule of Cape Town.
Greenmarket Square in 1762 with the Old Town House in the background. In the years following Cape Town's establishment in 1652 a number of streets came into existence above Strand Street (which followed the natural shoreline) and the Company Gardens which initially functioned as a market garden run by the Dutch East India Company to supply ships.
Adderley Street was the original main street of the city centre shopping district with large department stores such as Stuttafords (SW corner of Hout Street, going through to St Georges Mall, now Edgars et al.), Garlicks (at Exchange Place across from Cape Town railway station), [2] Fletcher & Cartwrights, and Thomas, Watson & Co.
At a meeting in the Cape Town Public Library, convened on 12 October 1850, proposals were discussed to erect a building in the Company's Garden for the purpose of exhibiting art. [1] This occasion was the inaugural meeting of the South African Fine Arts Association, founded by Thomas Butterworth Bayley and Abraham de Schmidt. [2]