Parliament Square is often viewed as a sanctuary of British constitutional history. Framed by the Palace of Westminster and the Abbey, it serves as a visual record of the 20th century’s geopolitical shifts.
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This modest yet highly significant guidebook remains one of the most authoritative introductions to the geological foundations of Johannesburg and the gold-mining swathe of the Central Witwatersrand.
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Henry Brown Marshall came to South Africa in 1878 and started a transport business from Durban to the Highveld. In 1886 he acquired part of the farm Turffontein and established Marshalltown. He bought 713 acres of the Farm Cyferfontein for his family home in 1893, which became Melrose Township, and planted many fine oak trees. Marshall and his wife, Anna Rissik and eight children lived here for only four years.