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Date: 1936 Type: Exhibition Centre Status: Unknown

Built for the 1936 Empire Exhibition at Milner Park, Johannesburg. Caption for second photograph: Facade photograph of the UITSPAN restaurant building with L. Suzman Ltd occupying the basement for the sale of cigarettes. The photograph forms an illustration on page 16 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. Submitted by the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation via William Martinson