Tag: Lord Kitchener

• 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

• Jeppestown & Belgravia Pt.1 (Friedenheim & Jeppe Boys)

  

  At last, the next suburb installment in bite sized parts. There will be one odd post slotted in between the Jeppe/Belgravia volumes covering my house which turns 100 this month. I’ll be posting some of the orginal plans as well as a few features t…

  Marc Latilla

  October 7, 2012

  Johannesburg

  Abe Bailey, Belgravia, Berg Street, Carl Jeppe, Friedenheim, Jeppe Boys High School, Jeppe Girls High School, Jeppestown, Lord Kitchener, Marshall Street, Monument, Ralston, Robinson Street, Salisbury House, Sir Herbert Baker, Sir Julius Jeppe, Toll gates