Tag: Marshall Street

• Jeppestown & Belgravia Pt.5 (Osborn Pharmacy, Thrupps, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Jeppestown Synagogue and Jooste & Bryant’s building)

  

  Osborn Pharmacy The plans for this building date back to 24 August 1898 and it was evidently built before the Anglo-Boer War by J.R. Koller. A good description is ‘…more leisurely pace with its Victorian air, which is suburban rather than city centred.’ Although mostly Victorian with a highly decorated roofline, there are also elements…

  Marc Latilla

  August 17, 2013

  Johannesburg

  Albrecht Street, Alexandra Theatre, Arthur Reid, Bank Buildings, Betty Street, Chicken’s New Agency, Commissioner Street, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Cuthberts, Jeppestown, Jeppestown Synagogue, Jooste & Bryant, Jules Street, Lithuanian Shul, Marshall Street, Maxim’s Tea Room Bioscope, Osborn Pharmacy, Thrupps, Tram Terminus Building, Walter Reid, Waterson & Veale

• Jeppestown & Belgravia Pt.2 (St. Mary’s College, Salisbury House, Rathmines & Thabana House)

  

  Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA ZH-TW X-NONE In 1891 the first horse drawn tram moved out of market square and soon connected to such ‘far flung’ suburbs of Belgravia (via Jeppestown), Fordsburg (another western township owned and laid out by For…

  Marc Latilla

  February 16, 2013

  Johannesburg

  Archdeacon Furse, Belgravia, Berg Street, Friedenheim, Grand Station Hotel, Holmes-Orr, J Cotterill, Jeppe Station, Jeppestown, JF Beardwood, Marshall Street, Rathmines, Salisbury House, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary-the-less Church, Thabana House

• 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