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My next feature piece on JHBlive is out and gives a brief history on the site where Ponte now stands. Read it HERE in all it’s glory. If you’re a…
Please follow me on Instagram at @johannesburg1912 where I post interesting Johannesburg related stuff on weekends (mainly). Or, follow this blog via e-mail HERE. Scroll down on the right after…
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…
The absolute last Doornfontein post…At the corner of Pieterson and Nugget street stood Warrington Hall which was built by F. Eckstein in the 1890s. It was across the road fromReunerts Windybrow (which still stands today) I’ve attached a google e…
In early 1900s – 1920s various yards emerged in the Jeppe area and adjacent in what was termed ‘New Doornfontein’. A yard (or slumyard) was an area that housed workers from around the city (mostly black domestic servants like ‘house boys’, ‘kitche…
It appears as though I’ve mistaken my mansions (or at least the reference books I’m using have) I’ve always believed the house that once stood on the hill on Harrow Road across from where Ponte is now was known as THE TURRETS. It was in fact calle…
On the very edge of old Doornfontein running North to South is End Street – so called because that is where town literally ended. What was to become Doornfontein on the right was then just grazing land. John Dale Lace (Norman House) and Barney Bar…
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