Tag: William Leck

• History of Hillbrow Pt.1

  

  On the 13 July 1893  a court ruled that the claim for the ground that would become Hillbrow belonged to J. Nicholls. He swiftly sold it to Transvaal Mortgage, Loan & Finance with which Sam Goldreich was associated. The ground was surveyed in 1894 and on the 20th May 1895 permission was received to change…

  Marc Latilla

  January 7, 2016

  Johannesburg

  Bruce Street, Carl Von Brandis, Claim Street, Clarendon Circle, Deutsche Schule, Fred Ingram, Friedenskirche, Gordon Leith, Hillbrow, Hospital Hill, Imerman’s, Ingram’s Corner, J. F. Kroll, Kotze Street, Le Corbusier, Le Herve, Lutheran Church, Martienssen, Oscar Niemeyer, Paul Nel Street, Pretoria Street, Sam Goldreich, Theophile Schaerer, Twist Street, Van Der Merwe Street, William Leck

• Windybrow

  

  I discovered two more out of print books today on Johannesburg. Both pointed to a few buildings/houses in Doornfontein that I may have missed – Doornfontein being my next planned post. In the meantime, here are a bunch of pictures I took of Windyb…

  Marc Latilla

  March 27, 2011

  Johannesburg

  Doornfontein, Hillbrow, National monument, Nugget Street, Robert Southey, Saratoga Avenue, Thoedore Reunert, William Leck, Windybrow