Tag: Bezhuidenhout

• Bertrams and Lorentzville

  

  Bertrams On 9 May 1889 Robertson Fuller Bertam (estate agent and stockbroker) leased a portion of land from the Bezhuidenhouts. The township laid out on the leased land was known as Bertram, and later as Bertramstown, appearing as such on an 1896 map. The suburb was meant to cash-in and catch the overflow from New…

  Marc Latilla

  February 13, 2014

  Johannesburg

  Baden-Powell house, Bertrams, Bertrams Junior School, Bertrams Synagogue, Bezhuidenhout, Chapman cottages, Doornfontein, Early Johannesburg, Gerald Fitzpatrick House, history of johannesburg, Judiths Paarl, Kimberly Road Shul, Klooflands, Lorentzville, Maurice Freeman, tin houses, Wedge cottages

• Bezuidenhout Cemetery

  

  Going back to before Johannesburg’s birth for this post…Before the discovery of gold, the area was made up of various boer farms after which many of todays suburbs are named:Laanglaagte, Braamfontein, Doornfontein, Diepkloof and Turffontein to n…

  Marc Latilla

  January 3, 2012

  Johannesburg

  Bez Valley, Bezhuidenhout, Doornfontein, Eric Rosenthal, family cemetary, Geldenhuis, Viljoen