Tag: Empire Exhibition

• History of Braamfontein Pt.4 (Rand Show, WITS, Nunnery, Brewery)

  

  The Milner Park history of the Rand Easter Show (or Witwatersrand Agricultural Show as it was known) Read the 1894-1902 history of the Rand Show HERE In 1903 Lord Milner convinced the Transvaal government to donate a large open space to the city as a gift. It was named Milner Park and was to become…

  Marc Latilla

  April 29, 2015

  Johannesburg

  Aerial photographs, Braamfontein, Early Johannesburg, Empire Exhibition, Empire Road, Fever hospital, Golden Jubilee, Helpmekaar School, Holy Trinity Church, Jan Smuts Avenue, King George VI, Lord Selborne, Nunnery, Ohlssons Cape Brewery, Public Works Department, Rand Show, SAB, UJ, University of Johannesburg, WITS University, Witwatersrand Agricultural Society