Tag: church

• Fairview (once known as ‘Fawcus Township’ sometimes spelt ‘Faucus’)

  

  It was also once called Georgetown and Johannesburg Extension, but I didn’t want to push my luck adding this to the title. This ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ suburb is wedged between Jeppestown on the south and Troyeville on the north and if traveling east along Commissioner Street is what you pass through before entering…

  Marc Latilla

  November 22, 2013

  Johannesburg

  church, Commissioner Street, Early Johannesburg, Fairview, Fire Station, fire tower, history of johannesburg, Julius Jeppe, Kallenbach, Op De Bergen Street

• Jeppestown & Belgravia Pt.3 (St. Mary’s-the-less, Gilfillan Park surrounds, Wesleyan Church, Jeppestown Masonic Lodge and Oddfellows Hall)

  

  In the 1890 map, one can see the original layout before the railway line, Belgravia to the east and other surrounding areas like City & Suburban and Wolhunter. Commissioner Street is still called Natal road and there is a little stream and lake called Natal Spruit. The 1896 map shows the growth that took place…

  Marc Latilla

  July 6, 2013

  Johannesburg

  Alnwick Castle, church, Jeppestown, Jeppestown Lodge, Map, Masonic Lodge, Matterson & Son Ltd, Natal Road, Rev. John Darragh, St. Mary’s-the-less church, Suburban library