Thirteen Formative Years



LIVING IN JOHANNESBURG – 27, 12th Avenue, Parktown North: Bobby and Lilian sold 27, 12th Avenue, Parktown North, in mid-1962 in order to emigrate to Australia. Some years later, the house we’d lived in was demolished and, I gather, four town houses were built on the property. Because of the all-pervasive security that’s predominant in modern-day Johannesburg – you can’t just wander up the driveway as anyone could have done in the 1950s – none of us has been back on the property since 1962, but we have been to see it from the street at least. Stuart and Charlie were photographed in front of 27, 12th Avenue (now called “Oakly Farm”!) in September 2013, and …