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Date: 1936 Type: Exhibition Centre Status: Demolished   Click to view large map Coordinates: 26°11'14.96" S 28°01'29.07" E Alt: 1714m

The Bandstand was constructed on the edge of the lake below the Transvaal Chamber of Mines Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition held at Milner Park in Johannesburg in 1936/37. The black and white photograph of the Bandstand forms an illustration on page 6 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 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. William Martinson, March 2025.