Myself and the team - Angelico, Senobia, Racquel, Vanessa and Domingo are currently busy with the restoration of a mosaic floor at Cape Town Station. The station is being upgraded and the first phase will be completed in time for the 2010 World Cup Soccer tournament. It's challening working on a construction site with all the noise and DUST around us. At the same time it's also fun as 100's of commuters pass by and often stop to talk to us. People have been sharing their memories of the "old station" and have expressed their gratitude that the mosaic floor is staying as the rest of the station is now covered in new glazed porcelain tiles. One 60 year old man told me that his family was evicted from District Six to the Cape Flats and that he travelled daily to his school in the City by train. He has fond memories of Blackie, the locomotive which stood on the mosaic floor which we are now restoring.
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