Tag: Devonshire Hotel

• 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