Tag: Op De Bergen Street

• 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…

  Marc Latilla

  November 22, 2013

  Johannesburg

  church, Commissioner Street, Early Johannesburg, Fairview, Fire Station, fire tower, history of johannesburg, Julius Jeppe, Kallenbach, Op De Bergen Street