Tag: Grand Station Hotel

• Jeppestown & Belgravia Pt.4 (Grand Station Hotel, Jeppe Post Office, dropped train tracks and Lithuanian Synagogue)

  

  Grand Station Hotel 1896 Built to serve miners from the nearby Wolhunter mine, the Grand Station Hotel is one of the oldest and grandest. It had a close association with boxing and served as a soup kitchen and refuge during the 1922 miner’s strike. The building was designed by Reid & Williams (who were also…

  Marc Latilla

  July 21, 2013

  Johannesburg

  dropped railway tracks, government buildings, Grand Station Hotel, Jeppe Station, Jeppestown, Lithuanian Shul, Norman’s Grill, post office, Reid & Wiliams, subways, Sytze Wierda

• Jeppestown & Belgravia Pt.2 (St. Mary’s College, Salisbury House, Rathmines & Thabana House)

  

  Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA ZH-TW X-NONE In 1891 the first horse drawn tram moved out of market square and soon connected to such ‘far flung’ suburbs of Belgravia (via Jeppestown), Fordsburg (another western township owned and laid out by For…

  Marc Latilla

  February 16, 2013

  Johannesburg

  Archdeacon Furse, Belgravia, Berg Street, Friedenheim, Grand Station Hotel, Holmes-Orr, J Cotterill, Jeppe Station, Jeppestown, JF Beardwood, Marshall Street, Rathmines, Salisbury House, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary-the-less Church, Thabana House