Some housekeeping: Please follow me on Instagram at @johannesburg1912 where I post interesting Johannesburg related stuff on weekends (mainly). Follow this blog via e-mail HERE. Scroll down on the right…
I recently did a piece for JHBlive on The Wilds. It’s an amazing public park that has lost visitors due to crime. With a little adjustment to security, I think…
My latest piece for the ongoing series ReJHB on JHBlive inspired by the upcoming SA vs. INDIA cricket test has just been published. Check it out here. This fascinating picture…
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…
I discovered two more out of print books today on Johannesburg. Both pointed to a few buildings/houses in Doornfontein that I may have missed – Doornfontein being my next planned post. In the meantime, here are a bunch of pictures I took of Windyb…
The well-heeled of the population were not satisfied with living in the small blocks laid out by the town planners near the mines and noise and dust of the new town. In 1887, Johannesburg’s first luxury residential area was laid out by Yeo Sherwel…
I’ve read that Johannesburg has been rebuilt three times. Initially it was a haphazard town akin to the wild west with lots of tents, tin structures and bars (and some clay huts-these prohibited after 1891 building regulations) With early deeper m…
A year ago, while planning for a new room/story to be built on our house in Melville, I got to see the original hand drawn plans from 1912. The house looked very different back then. How cool would it be if I could find a picture of what the house…
Johannesburg 1912 - suburb by suburb research 