BUILDING THE MOTHER CITY, Cape Town 1880-1930, in the steps of A.B.Reid, master builder and city councillor

187pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., maps, hardback, Cape Town, 2015

A social and cultural history of Cape Town, covering the period in which it developed from a small town into a city. Beatrice Hall explores this transformation by tracing the various activities of Andrew Reid in his life in Cape Town. A builder and a public servant, Reid became Mayor of Mowbray in 1904 and of Cape Town in 1907.