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 1893 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…
While I wrestle with the next suburb post (Hospital Hill & Hillbrow) and the final part of the church piece, I wanted to share some pages from a Johannesburg tourist…
This is part one of a piece on lost churches on early Johannesburg. Part two will focus on those old churches that are still standing but are no longer used…
The Milner Park history of the Rand Easter Show (or Witwatersrand Agricultural Show as it was known) In 1903 Lord Milner got the Transvaal government to donate a large open…
Holmden’s Street Map of Johannesburg and Suburbs, compiled by The Map Office and revised and brought up-to-date by Norman C. Dickie. 1929 *Click on the image for expanded view. The…
