ARTICLES

The gavel is poised to fall on the sale of 29 ordinary objects: including a handmade key, a book, a pair of sunglasses and an ID. Yet their sale raises an extraordinary question: when does a revered leader’s legacy become so central to a nation’s identity that it can no longer be treated as private property?

 

BLUE PLAQUES

In the 1930s the City’s Engineer’s Department built this substation in warm red brick laid in Dutch-bond, replacing an earlier building. It also served the tram net-work that ran from town to Zoo Lake and Rosebank between 1906 and 1961.