Tag Archive: Market Street

First Globe Theatre 1889
29 Jul

Theatres and Bioscopes in early Johannesburg

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July 29, 2013 at 9:25 pm 138 Comments
13 Feb

Early sweeping views

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…
February 13, 2011 at 10:34 pm 4 Comments