1

MISCELLANEOUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF
EARLY FORDSBURG AND MAYFAIR

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

Figure 1 Early Mining activities on the main reef. Note Johannesburg in the background.

Figure 2 Source: Beavon K, Johannesburg: The Making and Shaping of the City, University of South
Africa Press, Pretoria, 2004.

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

Figure 3 Johannesburg 1897 Source: Beavon K, Johannesburg: The Making and Shaping of the
City, University of South Africa Press, Pretoria, 2004.

Figure 4 1946 View of Main Reef Road, eastbound. Note the Newtown cooling towers in
the background and electricity pylons. Source: City of Johannesburg, The Golden City: Diamond
Jubilee Souvenir, Johannesburg City Council, Johannesburg, 1946.

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

Figure 5 Gundelfingers marketing calendar, pre-1899. Source: Stals EJP, Die Afrikaners in die
Goudstad, Vol.I&II, HAUM, Pretoria 1978 & 1986.

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

Figure 6 Newtown Mills, c.1916 Source: Jaffee G, Joffe Marks; A Family Memoir, United Trust
(Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, 2001.

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

Figure 7 Newtown Mills, c.1912 Source: Jaffee G, Joffe Marks; A Family Memoir, United Trust (Pty)
Ltd, Johannesburg, 2001.

Figure 8 The Mills cease operation, 1994. Source: Jaffee G, Joffe Marks; A Family Memoir, United
Trust (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, 2001.
Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc
E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

Figure 9 Row housing in Vrededorp, similar housing found in northern Fordsburg? Source:
Carrim N, Fietas: A Social History of Pageview: 1948-1988, Save Pageview Association, Johannesburg,
1990.

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

Figure 10 Bree Street School, Carrim N, Fietas: A Social History of Pageview: 1948-1988, Save
Pageview Association, Johannesburg, 1990.

Figure 11 Fordsburg College, Source: Carrim N, Fietas: A Social History of Pageview: 1948-1988,
Save Pageview Association, Johannesburg, 1990.

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

Figure 12 Phineas Mcintosh Park, northern side of Queens Street, view to the east. Carrim
N, Fietas: A Social History of Pageview: 1948-1988, Save Pageview Association, Johannesburg, 1990.

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

10

Figure 13 Mayfair traders, 1938, Source: Callinicos L, A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of
Apartheid, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1993.

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

11

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

12

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

13

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

14

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

15

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008

16

Fordsburg and Mayfair Historic Illustrations.doc

E BRINK, FORDSBURG HERITAGE SURVEY, APRIL 2008