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Doornfontein Pt.1 (Lion’s Shul & Bettelheim Mansion)
The reason this Doornfontein post has been delayed is that I keep finding new stuff. As a result there will be a few parts to this section. The Saratoga & Windybrow posts were the start. Doornfontein was a popular early sanctuary for the well-off …
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Saratoga Avenue after Harrow Road bridge (Now called Joe Slovo Drive)
I was about to complete the Doornfontein post (finally took the balance of the pictures this week) but wanted to first post some pictures of the houses on the other side of the Harrow Rd bridge. Actually there is only one house left on Charlton Te…
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Windybrow
I discovered two more out of print books today on Johannesburg. Both pointed to a few buildings/houses in Doornfontein that I may have missed – Doornfontein being my next planned post. In the meantime, here are a bunch of pictures I took of Windyb…
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Saratoga Avenue
The well-heeled of the population were not satisfied with living in the small blocks laid out by the town planners near the mines and noise and dust of the new town. In 1887, Johannesburg’s first luxury residential area was laid out by Yeo Sherwel…
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Early sweeping views
I’ve read that Johannesburg has been rebuilt three times. Initially it was a haphazard town akin to the wild west with lots of tents, tin structures and bars (and some clay huts-these prohibited after 1891 building regulations) With early deeper m…
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Introduction and Randjeslaagte
A year ago, while planning for a new room/story to be built on our house in Melville, I got to see the original hand drawn plans from 1912. The house looked very different back then. How cool would it be if I could find a picture of what the house…
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Johannesburg 1912 - suburb by suburb research 