Buy this book on-line HART, Michael & KRIGE, Sue : The Johannesburg Drill Hall: Submission to SAHRA, December 2002Published By the Auhors, 2002
A fine copy in the original spiral bound wrappers as issued. The historic Drill Hall in Joubert Park, which was almost destroyed by fire in April 2002, has been given a new lease on life after a R10-million refurbishment. Led by architect Michael Hart, the development was driven by the desire to honour the layers of history of the site. The Drill Hall has had a chequered past. Built in 1904, it was used as a military barracks that supplied regiments throughout the Anglo Boer War. It was the site of the mobilisation of volunteers from the Transvaal who went to the aid of the Natal colonial troops in quelling the Bambatha Rebellion of 1906 and housed regiments responsible for suppressing the miners' strikes of 1913, 1914 and 1922. Troops gathered at the hall on their way to fight in the first and second world wars. Perhaps more famously, it was the site of the initial stages of the Treason Trial in the late 1950s, in which former president Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu were among the 156 accused. (The trial was moved to Pretoria for security reasons.) It was also a popular dance venue from the 1930s to the late 1970s. From the mid- 1990s, it became home to several hundred squatters until a fire gutted the building in 2002. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HART, Michael & KRIGE, Sue : The Johannesburg Drill Hall: Submission to SAHRA, December 2002. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, antiquarian books, incunabula, libri rari and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |