Tag: history of johannesburg
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Fairview (once known as ‘Fawcus Township’ sometimes spelt ‘Faucus’)
It was also once called Georgetown and Johannesburg Extension, but I didn’t want to push my luck adding this to the title. This ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ suburb is wedged between Jeppestown on the south and Troyeville on the north and if traveling east along Commissioner Street is what you pass through before entering…
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Short film of Johannesburg from 1970/1
I came across this short film (more of a silent documentary set to music really) by Alan Michael Levy posted on You Tube. It’s an interesting look back in time to Johannesburg in the early 70s. Although filmed a few years before I was born, I do remember the black & white TJ number plates,…
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Jeppestown & Belgravia Pt.6 (Belgravia Hotel, general views and odds & ends)
This is the final post on Jeppe and Belgravia before moving a few blocks north up to Fairview (or Fawcus Township as it was originally known) and really a chance to post some mixed and fascinating pictures of various examples of houses, buildings, and general views that didn’t fit into the previous Jeppe & Belgravia…
Johannesburg 1912 - suburb by suburb research 