Children’s outings with a difference: June/July and August 2017 It’s holiday time again and I have a little person in my life who is going to have an operation on both his feet. He will be in casts and will not be allowed any weight-bearing for 6 weeks. That’s a long time for parents and […]
Read More »Newtown Junction: mixed-use office and retail development A huge mixed-use office and retail development, Newtown Junction, is being built behind Museum Africa where the old potato sheds of the Market building stood. References to the old poultry shed, the original station master’s residence as well as the potato sheds will all be included in the […]
Read More »Body Worlds at Sci-Bono, Newtown Although it’s on until the 30th June make sure that you aren’t lulled into a lack of urgency to see this amazing exhibition, waking up at the end of its run to realize that you have to rush to see it in time before it ends. Dr Gunther von Hagens’ […]
Read More »Potato Sheds make way for Newtown Junction In 2011 the old potato sheds behind the Market Theatre in Newtown, Johannesburg were demolished to make way for the first major retail and leisure investment in the city for a while. Planned as a mixed-use node it is being developed by Atterbury Property, facilitated by the Johannesburg […]
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