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  2. Adderley Street - Wikipedia

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    Location. Cape Town, South Africa. Coordinates. 33°55′17″S 18°25′27″E. /  33.92139°S 18.42417°E  / -33.92139; 18.42417. Adderley Street is a street in Cape Town, South Africa. It is considered the main street of the central business district (downtown) of Cape Town. The Christmas lights, night markets, main train station and ...

  3. Standard Bank - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .standardbank .com. Standard Bank Group Limited [2] is a major Andrew's bank and financial services group. It is Africa 's biggest lender by assets. [3] The company's corporate headquarters, Standard Bank Centre, is situated in Simmonds Street, Johannesburg.

  4. List of heritage sites in Worcester, Western Cape - Wikipedia

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    Old Dutch Reformed Mission Parsonage, 48 Adderley Street, Worcester 7-bay thatched Cape Dutch house with straight end gables. The front gable is Worcester type, dated 1840, with a 6 × 6 sash and four rusticated pilasteres continuing to ground level, the central two forming part of an architrave to the door. 2 × 2 door Type of site: Pastorie ...

  5. Two-minute silence - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom and other countries within the Commonwealth, a two-minute silence is observed as part of Remembrance Day to remember those who died in conflict. Held each year at 11:00 am on 11 November, the silence coincides with the time in 1918 at which the First World War came to an end with the cessation of hostilities, and is generally observed at war memorials and in public places ...

  6. Standard Bank Building - Wikipedia

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    Standard Bank Building. The Standard Bank Building (10 November 1908) was designed by Architects Stucke & Bannister. It is found in Marshalltown in the South African city of Johannesburg in Commissioner, Harrison and Fox streets.

  7. List of heritage sites in Cape Town CBD and the Waterfront

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    Old Slave Lodge, Adderley Street, Cape Town The Old Supreme Court at the top of the former Heerengracht (now Adderley Street) and adjoining Church Square is a remarkable building. Its history, its architectural merits and its symbolic significance make it unique in South Africa. The proper housing Previous use: Supreme Court, Slave Lodge.

  8. Hercules Crosse Jarvis - Wikipedia

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    Born in Plymouth, England on 18 June 1802, [2] he was a close relative of John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, the admiral who fought Napoleon. His father, also named John Jervis, was an army captain from Staffordshire who died young, leaving his wife and six children. Coming from an intensely military family, the 14-year-old Hercules Crosse ...

  9. Golden Acre (Cape Town) - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Acre is a shopping mall on the corner of Adderley and Strand Streets in downtown Cape Town. Shopping centre. Tenants as of July 2020 include Ackermans, Shoprite and Mr Price. There are street vendors on the pedestrian bridge to Cape Town Station. Archaeology. It was built in the 1970s by Sanlam on an old train station site.