Wednesday, 29 August 2018

802-804-806 Somerset West



I'm told that a restaurant is forthcoming at 802 Somerset West, an address I remember as the India Food Centre. I'm also pretty sure that 806 was where I did my laundry, back when I first moved out of home in the early '70s.

Forty-five years later I find myself wondering when and how this building came to be, and trying to get better acquainted with the little patch of ground it occupies, at the western end of Chinatown.

To that end, I'm putting together a time line of sorts which should be sufficiently long-winded to deserve a page of its own — see you here then...