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Date: post 1903 Type: Homestead Status: Adaptive re-use Street: 34b Westcliff Drive   Click to view large map Coordinates: 26°10'09.80" S 28°01'49.77" E Alt: 1668m

Transcription of Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust Blue Plaque ANGLO BOER WAR 1899-1902 CENTENARY COMMEMORATIONS PALLINGHURST The original house was based on a design done by Herbert Baker in 1903 for Raymond William Schumacher (Ffennel), but was only built some years later. Schumacher was a Captain in the Rand Rifles, the corps raised in 1900 to guard the gold mines from attack by the Boers. During the war the British erected a blockhouse on this property overlooking what was then Old Pretoria Road. The historic building and land were donated to the Hope School by Schumacher. (Source: The Heritage Portal)