Tag: Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital

• Transvaal Memorial Hospital for Children

  

  In November 2019 I was contacted by Karen Landi of Ei8ht Community whose offices are based at the old Transvaal Memorial Children’s Hospital, a historic building at the bottom of Braamfontein across the road from the former Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital. Karen had just launched the Children’s Memorial Institute website at the request of the…

  Marc Latilla

  February 1, 2020

  Johannesburg

  archives, Hospital Hill, Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, Transvaal Memorial Hospital for Children

• Hospital Hill (Old Suburb between Braamfontein & Hillbrow)

  

  Hospital Hill was a popular name for the eastern part of the March 1888 surveyed part of the township of Johannesburg. It included the land on the hill where the first general hospital was built (the land granted by the government), Joubert Park and northerly surrounds, Kruger Park (which became the Wanderer’s Sports Club) and…

  Marc Latilla

  January 2, 2016

  Johannesburg

  Athenaeum club, Constitution Hill, Esselen, Fever hospital, Florence Nightingale Clinic, Fort, Gordon Leith, Government Mortuary, Governor’s House, Hillbrow Hospital, Hillbrow Recreation Centre, Hospital Hill, Non-European Hospital, Old Gaol, Old Johannesburg General Hospital, Public Works Department, Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, Sir Herbert Baker, South African Institute for Medical Research, Transvaal Memorial Hospital for Children, Woman’s Prison