It’s that time of year when the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation celebrates the rich history of Joburg with a weekend of interesting tours, films and exhibitions on Saturday 30th September and…
It’s official! I’m working on a Johannesburg book to be released in October 2018. The book is loosely based on some of the work on this blog and a whole…
It’s been some months since the last Johannesburg post. The reason is that I’ve been working on an exciting new project based on some of the work here (and a…
This piece covers churches built up to around 1955 that are still standing. The first piece covered the ‘Lost churches’ and can be read HERE. I’ve broken it up into…
Come and support the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation and their amazing tours celebrating Heritage Weekend and Johannesburg’s 130th birthday. Download the 2016 activity and tour brochure HERE Celebrate Johannesburg’s 130th birthday…
A couple of years ago I bough a few old South African DVDs that were shot in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were for research for a story…
It’s taken just over 3-and-a-half years, but the site has just hit 100 000 views since moving to WordPress! 40 000 were from 2015 alone and with 2016 already on…
Hospital Hill and History of Hillbrow Pt.1 are the other two parts of the research. This quaint little fire Station, completed in 1912, was originally known as the Northern Districts…
On the 13 July 1893Â a court ruled that the claim for the ground that would become Hillbrow belonged to J. Nicholls. He swiftly sold it to Transvaal Mortgage, Loan…
Hospital Hill was a popular name for the eastern part of the March 1888 surveyed part of the township Johannesburg. It included the land on the hill where the…
