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1880: Market Square – Editors Pic

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1880: Market Square

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Early morning activity on Market Square. Hansen and Schrader’s stores were later demolished and replaced by the old ‘City House’ which in turn made way for the Colonial Mutual building. Note the ‘EP Herald’ Offices.

The Colonial Mutual Life Building was later called Pleinhuis when sold in the 1980s and in present day is called the Noninzi Luzipho Building. “The Colonial Mutual Life Building was designed by the Australian Architects Hennessy & Hennessy who were based in Sydney. The construction was supervised by Owen Eaton & Merrifield… The Municipal archive show that the building was originally intended to be two floors higher (7 instead of the 5 constructed) and included a pitched roof along the main elevation facing Market Square and a tower over the Lift shafts.”

The same view today:

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