During the challenging lockdown period of Covid-19, the City of Cape Town’s Woodstock Town Hall was severely vandalized, resulting in the facility’s closure for significant repairs and maintenance.
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However, fourteen months later and with approximately R3 669 000 in full refurbishment, the facility has been officially opened to the Woodstock community with the City’s Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis celebrating the restoration with an opening.
Woodstock Town Hall was built in 1935 and opened for public use for all of its residents. The geometric shape of the building was a popular architectural style at the time, that was celebrated for its modernity because of its concrete foundations, steel windows, and corrugated roof.
The floor of the main hall was made of marble, ideal for dancing, and the stage featured a large orchestra pit with enough room for the full Cape Town Orchestra to fit in.
The hall has since been a significant part of the social lifestyle of the community, serving as the ideal venue for weddings, birthdays, and special business functions. But due to the lockdown, and lacking maintenance of the facility, it was interrupted and vandalized which brought it into severe disrepair.
Woodstock is known as a bustling community with its own infrastructural developments that have quickly become a part of the city centre. More importantly, it is filled with working-class people of all cultures and races.
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