Brickfields, the largest public- and private-funded residential development in the inner city, attracted more than 8000 people to its site in the two months before launch.

Brickfields was razed to the ground and Newtown rose in its place. It was from here, at the Electric Workshop and Turbine Hall, that electricity was first generated for the growing town.

In Newtown there was once a vision for a residential mix, but Brickfields, on Ntemi Piliso and Gwigwi Mrwebi streets – rental residential accommodation for the upper working class – has been ...

Gandhi’s bedchamber is a frugal loft overlooking the dining room, but mine is a doorway to heaven. While he climbed a ladder ...