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The Parktown Collection People and Places The Architects of Parktown
Birds of Paradise Parktown Centenary Souvenir Book
Parktown And Westcliff Urban Walk Handbook A Child's Guide To St George's Church

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Please note - some of the Parktown Collection pamphlets are out of stock!

 

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Coming soon

Diary of Isabelle Lipp will be published in May in time for the 110th anniversary of the surrender of Johannesburg by the Boers to the British.

 

THE PARKTOWN COLLECTION:

COMPLETE SET OF 36 MONOGRAHS, (LOOSE)
NUMBERS 1 – 28 PEOPLE AND PLACES
A1 - A8 ARCHITECTS OF PARKTOWN

Available in
- Set of 28 loose
- Individual Monographs : R5 Each

 

People and Places (No 1 -28)

 

Title Author
1) Sir Thomas Cullinan Arthur Janks
2) Lady Isobel Dalrymple Daphne Saul
3) Henry Charles Hull Oscar Norwich
4) Richard Feetham Larna Bronstein
5) Sir Llewellyn Andersson Anna Cunningham
6) Raymond Schumacher John Wentzel
7) Villa Arcadia Dennis Radford
8) Parktown Convent Marilyn Martin
9) MacArthur-Forrest Cyanide Process George Fajans
10) Lionel George Curtis Flo Bird
11) Sir Aubrey Woolls-Sampson Daphne Saul
12) The View David Syme-Grant
13) Sir Herbert Baker Cecil Graham & Flo Bird
14) Sir George Albu Elito Viglieno
15) Outeniqua – The Ohlsson House Malcolm Freeland
16) Florence, Lady Phillips Nola Green
17) Lord Milner at 'Sunnyside' Flo Bird
18) P M Anderson at 'The Pines' David Syme-Grant
19) North Lodge Glynton le Roux
20) Howard Pim Anna Cunningham
21) Northwards Dennis Radford
22) Domestic Service in Parktown's Heyday Daphne Saul
23) Emoyeni Andre van Graan
24) Sir Lionel Phillips Maryna Fraser
25) The Braamfontein Company : Developing Parktown Daphne Saul & Flo Bird
26) Entertaining in Parktown Paynter & Bird
27) Deneys & Leila Reitz Anna Cunningham
28) The Causeway Bird & van Graan

 

The Architects of Parktown (Nos A1 – A8)

 

Title Author
A1) F L H Fleming Bernard Cooke
A2) Ernest Willmot Sloper Dennis Radford
A3) Michael Joseph Solomon Dennis Radford
A4) Frank Emley Dennis Radford
A5) James Alfred Cope-Christie Dennis Radford & Peter Jackson
A6) Herbert Baker Dennis Radford
A7) Robert Howden Leigh Jackson & William Martinson
A8) Aburrow & Treeby Leigh Jackson & William Martinson

 

BIRD OF PARADISE
The ever popular book on Jose Dale Lace, Written by Dapne Saul.
R65 Each.

 

PARKTOWN CENTENARY SOUVENIR BOOK
Issued in 1992, Some copies still available, Contents include the people, places, many institutions, cartoons,
a beautiful map drawn in 1901 and much more.
- SOLD OUT! -

 

PARKTOWN & WESTCLIFF URBAN WALK HANDBOOK
Available in English and Afrikaans
R15 Each

A CHILD'S GUIDE TO ST GEORGE'S CHURCH
Including double page pull out colouring-in four stained glass windows.
R15 Each

PET RECIPES FROM PARKTOWN
The favourites of the parishioners, not their animals!
A reprint of the 1914 booklet now embellished  with photographs of the parishioners who contributed the recipes together with pictures of their homes and a helpful list of weights and measures pre decimal times. Compiled by Sarah Welham in 2004 for the Centenary of St George’s Church.

Who can be without Mrs Alice Gertude Palmer’s Prune Pudding or Mrs Tippet’ s Claret Cup?
or Lady Albu’s 12 egg Walnut Cake. Price R20.

FOLLOW THE FLAGS THROUGH PARKTOWN FOR A GLIMPSE OF JOHANNESBURG'S WAR
A route through some of Johannesburg'smost beautiful and historic suburbs tracking down the exploits of the early residents in the Anglo Boer war of 1899-1902. Lavishly illustrated the route (map included)  covers  80 sites which relate to the people houses, and street names which are linked to the war which Winston Churchill described as a fight for the gold mines.
Details, houses, owners, architects and dates of contruction. An invaluable must have by Dennis Adams, Flo Bird and Lorna Jones. Published in 2002.

Hard Cover - R150. Soft Cover R65.

 

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Last Edit : 01/03/2010

 

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