The Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory

As I live near the top end of Town Bush Road, I drive or cycle past the Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory often. To say that I have not been impressed by the new gate and access control system that seem to take forever to construct, would be an understatement of note. The gate and access control system now seems to be functional, and I often wondered how many people/vehicles pass through this magnificent structure each passing week.

The property is quite a large one and despite having taken a dog there many years ago for a free rabies injection, I cannot remember what the buildings might have looked like. For all I know, they are equal to the magnificent and recently beautifully restored Victorian buildings that make up part of the Townhill Hospital complex. Interestingly enough, the two Townhill Hospital gates that I am aware of, are nowhere near a match for the Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory gate.

Up until recently I was unaware that there were another similar gates leading in/out of the Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory. When driving or riding down McCarthy Drive I am at times aware of the extent of the Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory property. That is however not the case when I go around the corner and enter Chase Valley Road were a complex and Telkom building front onto Chase Valley Road. The Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory property does not feature there, or rather it did not until recently when I was cycling into the CBD I decided to take the Chase Vallet Road route. It was then that I for the first time noticed a jeep track that left Chase Valley Road and seemed to be headed in the direction of the Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory.

My curiosity got the better of me and so I rode up the track to discover another entrance to the Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory, and a gate and access control system that was just as grand as the main one. However this gate and access control system was for all that I could see, not used very often. This seemed strange as it has to be one of the grandest rear entrances I have seen in quite some time, if not ever!

After I had taken a couple of photographs to remind myself that I had not been dreaming, I continued with my ride into the CBD. I had not been cycling for very long when I was reminded of the article about corruption that I had read in The Witness earlier that day. I also thought again about the number of people/vehicles passing through the front entrance to the Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory. None of this was helped by the fact that some of the lights at that entrance were on in the middle of the day!

Post Initial post: Subsequent to having written the above regarding the rear entrance to the Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory, I thought in order to be fair, I should in include the rest of the entrances. These are shown in the second row of photographs. The lights at these gates are also on! The last photograph is copied from Google Earth. It shows the extent of the property, and the buildings that are in effect served by the three and a half substantitive, and it would seem, elaborate state of the art gates/entrances/access control systems.

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