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Photographs by Lucille Davie: Historic Joburg

A close up view of the corner turret and weathervane of Dolobran

• Anstey's Art Deco residential block, built in 1937, now a national monument
• Brass monkeys in the foyer of Anstey's
• Johannesburg's "Chrysler" building, Astor Mansions, built in 1932
• The Bezuidenhout family farmhouse, built in 1863, predates the city itself by almost a quarter century. The farm house is now in Bezuidenhout Park.
• Transvaal Children's Hospital in Braamfontein, now the Florence Transition Home
• Rear view of the City Hall, opened in 1915, now home of the Gauteng provincial government
• Back view of the 1897 Rissik Street Post Office, earmarked for restoration
• Customs House building on the corner of Bree and Harrison Streets
• Parktown splendour. Front entrance of Dolobran, built for early entrepeneur Charles Llewellyn Andersson
• Cast iron trelliswork at Dolobran, rescued from mining headquarters Corner House when it was demolished in 1902
• Dolobran, a late Victorian mansion, with its mix of gables, window shapes and wrap-around verandah
• View of the city from the far south, as seen from the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve
• he burnt-out shell of the 98-year-old Drill Hall, once the city's central military barracks, after a fire in April 2002
• Firemen assess the damage of the Drill Hall, a national monument
• A church in the garden of a house in Hope Road, above Orange Grove, a street notable for turn-of-the-century houses built of local stone
• Art Deco features above the entrance of the Jeppe Street Post Office
• Number 4 Hope Road, near Orange Grove, a stone house built around 1904
• North Lodge, built in 1905, often called the most romantic house in Parktown
• The entrance to Northwards, a Herbert Baker mansion built in 1904
• Decorative stained glass in one of the 40 rooms of Northwards
• The large wood-panelled entertaining hall of Northwards with a minstrel gallery and Juliet balcony
• The old fruit and vegetable market in Newtown, before it was converted into the MuseuMAfrikA
• Battered relic of apartheid ... sign above a shop in President Street, indicating a "Native Shoe Shop"
• Iron Age furnace at Melville Koppies, now a national monument
• Remanant of pre-Johanesburg era: Remaining wall of a stone and mud wagonhouse belonging to farmer Sarel Marais, now inside the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve
• The once-proud Rissik Street Post Office clock tower, now missing its clock hands and brass canopy. The Post Office has been earmarked for restoratation
• Savernake in Jubilee Road, built in 1916 and now the home of the Vice-Chancellor of Wits University
• Savernake, with its delightful garden and view of the northern suburbs
• St John's College in Houghton, designed by Herbert Baker and built in 1907
• St Margaret's, a Herbert Baker house built in 1905, with its stunning gardens
• Herbert Baker's own house in Parktown, in which he lived for 10 years
• The View, built for Thomas Cullinan in 1896. Cullinan owned Premier Mine which produced the world's largest diamond in 1905
• The stamp mill at Langlaagte, close to the spot where George Harrison found gold in 1886
• One of the slanted stopes cut into the ground at Langlaagte by early gold miners
• North Lodge, with its green-roofed conservatory
• A close up view of the corner turret and weathervane of Dolobran