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Date: 1936/37 Type: Exhibition Centre Status: Unknown

Caption for photograph. Facade photograph of the Construction Depot building with the 'Construction staff at Johannesburg' standing and seated in the foreground. The entrance into the building takes place through a combined series of three tall interlinked cylindrical forms bookended on each side by a rectilinear wing. The photograph forms an illustration on page 2 of a commemorative and advertising brochure published by Piggott Brothers Limited, an English company tasked with the construction of the majority of the temporary exhibition buildings on the Empire Exhibition site. The brochure is titled 'THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION JOHANNESBURG 1936 -7' and was issued with the compliments of the Official Contractors, Piggott Bros. & Co. Ltd. Established 1780, 220-226 BISHOPSGATE AND 1 & 3 ARTILLERY LANE, LONDON, E.C.2. Submitted by the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation via William Martinson, March 2025