Tag: Clifton Methodist Church

• History of Braamfontein Pt.2 (Lost Braamfontein)

  

  I’ve come across yet another suburb name that a part of Braamfontein was once known as: Argyle (or Argyll). This was once known as Johannesburg’s smallest suburb and was a few blocks west of the old Johannesburg Hospital. According to Anna Smith’s ‘History of Johannesburg street names’, the Transvaal Volksraad granted Commandant Daniel Egnatius Schutte…

  Marc Latilla

  September 30, 2014

  Johannesburg

  All Saints Clifton Parish Hall, Ameshoff Street, Argyle, Braamfontein, Braamfontein Dutch Refrom Church, Civic Centre, Civic Theatre, Clifton, Clifton Methodist Church, Devonshire Hotel, Early Johannesburg, Geldenhuys Building, Henri Street, history of johannesburg, Hospital Hill School, Jooste & Bryant, Juta Street, Sacke Residence, Spes Bona School

• History of Braamfontein Pt.1

  

  Braamfontein today is largely unchanged from 30 years ago. It seems like it’s always just been this way, but its long history starts off as a farm in 1853 to a booming middle-class residential suburb in the mid-1890s to the 1930s. During the economic and building booms of the 1930s and 1950s, many businesses relocated…

  Marc Latilla

  July 27, 2014

  Johannesburg

  Braamfontein, Braamfontein enclosure, Clifton, Clifton Hotel, Clifton Methodist Church, Clifton Reef, Emmerentia, Frans Geldenhuys, Gert Bezhuidenhout, Johannesburg Train Station, Kitcheners, Lindeque’s Portion, Lord Kitchener, Lourens Geldenhuys, Milner, Milner Park Hotel, Old Wanderers, Randjeslaagte, REFORM! Sound System, Smit Street Hotel School, The Gables, Wanderers, Wanderers View