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Jeppestown, 1888. Jeppestown was established in or after 1886 by C.E.G. Julius Jeppe [], who formed the Ford and Jeppe Estate Company with his son, who was also called Julius Jeppe [], and L.P. Ford. [2] In 1893, the Masonic temple was completed. [3]
Johannesburg also has one of several film schools in the country, one of which has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Student Film in 2006. [97] The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance, or AFDA for short, is situated in Auckland Park. Johannesburg also has three teacher-training colleges and a technical college.
Johannesburg grew rapidly and increased building developments led to many fire outbreaks and the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company led by Barney Barnato donated stands to build the fire station. The Berea fire station in 1936 [2] The foundation stone was laid on 15 October 1910 by Mrs D.W.Sims, mayoress of Johannesburg. She was the ...
The fledgling town of Johannesburg was laid out on a triangular wedge of "uitvalgrond" (area excluded when the farms were surveyed) named Randjeslaagte, situated between the farms Doornfontein to the east, Braamfontein to the west and Turffontein to the south. [5] The property belonged to the government.
Fire Station No. 2 (1901), Athens, Georgia, a gridiron-shaped station included in the Cobbham Historic District [16] Fire Station No. 6, Atlanta, Georgia, included in the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park; Fire Station No. 11 (Atlanta, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Georgia; Fire Station 19 (Atlanta, Georgia)
The fire department and ambulances, the metropolitan police and traffic control, museums, art galleries, libraries and heritage sites are all controlled by separate departments. Some of the key city service functions are supplied by separate, self-contained entities, each run on business lines with its own CEO.
Midrand has the largest [citation needed] conference centre in South Africa which is known as Gallagher Estate which was built on the former site of Halfway House Primary School, which subsequently moved to new grounds near the fire station. A landmark of Midrand is the Nizamiye Mosque, opened in 2012, [6] the largest mosque in South Africa.
Kensington is a hilly suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.It was established in 1897 by Max Langermann (after whom the thoroughfare Langermann Drive is named). It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality [2] and is bounded to the west by the suburb of Troyeville, to the east by Bedfordview and the north by Bruma and Cyrildene.