Tag: Wanderers View

• Notes from the underground Feb 2023

  

  Why the underground? Last year I moved my research library into the ‘cellar’ under the house where I also keep my music. Father’s Day brought gifts of desk lights, concrete blocks, and wood, that transformed one section of the space. It doesn’t quite house all the Johannesburg books yet but it is a vast improvement.…

  Marc Latilla

  January 29, 2023

  Johannesburg

  Hospital Hill, Johannesburg Technical College, Wanderers View

• 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