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Globe Tavern Barberton, Mpumalanga Albert Hubert HALDER: Architect

Date: 1887 Type: Tavern Status: Extant Street: Pilgrim Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 25°47'29.84" S 31°03'15.67" E Alt: 883m

This former tavern was opened in 1887, two and a half years after Barberton was founded. It is typical of the wood-and-iron buildings that characterised the gold fields of the Eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga) during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Provincial Heritage Site;6363;23/03/1979 Books and articles that reference Globe Tavern Richardson, Deirdré. 2001. Historic Sites of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. pg 251