Customers have been coming back for 50 years. Thokozane Nxumalo boasts he can pour their drinks blind-folded, but Nxumalo doesn't touch the stuff. Welcome to The Guildhall, Jo'burg's oldest drinking establishment.
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Loyal customers like the ambience revealed in an 1800s photo of the just-opened Guildhall located across the street from the Johannesburg market. Photo by Darren Taylor
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Men of wealth and position such as mining magnate Barney Barnato were regulars at earlier Guildhall afternoons. Photo by Darren Taylor
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A photo of the newly-built Guildhall, across the Johannesburg market, in the 1800s. Photo by Darren Taylor
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The view from The Guildhall of commercial life in the Johannesburg market as it boomed in the 1880s gold rush era. Image courtesy Fernando Coimbra