Tag: Johannesburg Train Station

• History of Braamfontein Pt.1

  

  Braamfontein today is largely unchanged from 30 years ago. It seems like it’s always just been this way, but its long history starts off as a farm in 1853 to a booming middle-class residential suburb in the mid-1890s to the 1930s. During the economic and building booms of the 1930s and 1950s, many businesses relocated…

  Marc Latilla

  July 27, 2014

  Johannesburg

  Braamfontein, Braamfontein enclosure, Clifton, Clifton Hotel, Clifton Methodist Church, Clifton Reef, Emmerentia, Frans Geldenhuys, Gert Bezhuidenhout, Johannesburg Train Station, Kitcheners, Lindeque’s Portion, Lord Kitchener, Lourens Geldenhuys, Milner, Milner Park Hotel, Old Wanderers, Randjeslaagte, REFORM! Sound System, Smit Street Hotel School, The Gables, Wanderers, Wanderers View

• Johannesburg from the air 1931

  

  While I finish up the first part of the history of Braamfontein, here is some vintage aerial footage of Johannesburg showing some edges of Braamfontein. Old aerial views of Johannesburg are hard to come by and sometimes tricky to pinpoint the location. The reason is that the city has been re-built so many times –…

  Marc Latilla

  June 23, 2014

  Johannesburg

  Aerial photographs, City Hall, Commissioner Street, Early Johannesburg, Johannesburg Train Station, Market Square, Newtown, Old Wanderers, Parkview, Standard Bank Building, Union Grounds, Zoo Lake