Loved it Al - thanks for the mention. My favourite comment was the GPS asking you for directions, ha ha ha. Indeed the internet is filled with all sorts of weird and wonderful things - you just need to know where and how to dig for it. Cheers.
I have just discovered your channel and I am really enjoying it. Please do an episode on The wreck of the Grosvenor. I read a book on it a few years ago and found it so interesting. I have also visited the site many times on fishing trips. I would love to see you cover the story. Keep up the good work.
Thanks very much! I appreciate the encouragement. The Grosvenor and associated accounts have taken on mystical proportions. If I'm ever able to get to that area, I'd love to make an episode about it. As it is, this is an unpaid hobby for me, so I just organise episodes around business trips and other travel.
Please do something on what seem to be the endless Main Reef Road like it was before the name changed and how it ran from Krugersdorp to Germiston and beyond.
I would love to do a similar project. There was a brilliant series called Main Reef Rd in the 90's. Unfortunately, only the trailer remains to be found on RUclips.
Now you putting me back to when I had to do visits to Rustenburg for work and sometimes I would come thru Krugersdorp on Main Reef Road. Got lost a few times and cried a lot. No GPS.
I didn't know that about my hometown. Thanks. If you ever want to do a family history program, the Annandale family history in South Africa might interest you. From a single 1820 Settler who landed near East London, From Scottish parents, born in London, George Annandale married a Boer and his decendants ended up fighting in the Mogato Uprising, the Jameson Raid, and on into the Boer War against the British. There are Annandale graves at the Irene Concentration Camp. There was an Annandale arrested with Robey Leibrandt during WWII. Maybe your researcher knows more about this.
My earliest years were living on a gold mine or prospecting a gold mine. Regardless of how much gold has been mined there is more than was removed in the mines of the Witwatersrand. Children absorb adult conversations without understanding until years later. I can remember hearing men conversing, they were talking about how gold seams were covered up and never mined. There were areas were there was danger of deep sinkholes with houses disappearing. The west rand was a danger area. So maybe some day the gold will come to the surface.
Paul Kruger apparently disliked Johannesburg intensely and grudgingly gave it the beautiful Rissik street post office building - since reduced to a ruin. The development of Pretoria was his focus.
In randpark ridge, one of the original houses, when I was a child I remember something of the sort. They've kept the structure but its also a complex I believe, I remember it burning down as a child, in the 1990s😂 not that long ago thou
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Loved it Al - thanks for the mention. My favourite comment was the GPS asking you for directions, ha ha ha. Indeed the internet is filled with all sorts of weird and wonderful things - you just need to know where and how to dig for it. Cheers.
Thanks for your research, Theunis! Serious Sherlockian powers of deduction. Glad you like it.
Another excellent episode. The edit, presenting and all-round storytelling is magnificent. Love it.
Thanks Cyrus!
Great story and well told Al!
Thanks Stephen! Please show your Dad. I'm sure he'd be interested.
@@barroompoet have sent to him as well as the ex MD of JHB Property Company as she was also intrigued. Maybe the OGYC next?
Love all the stories, especially the Jhb stories. Love Jhb. 🎉
Me too. She's a great old dusty machine, but with magnificent spirit.
I have just discovered your channel and I am really enjoying it. Please do an episode on The wreck of the Grosvenor. I read a book on it a few years ago and found it so interesting. I have also visited the site many times on fishing trips. I would love to see you cover the story. Keep up the good work.
Thanks very much! I appreciate the encouragement. The Grosvenor and associated accounts have taken on mystical proportions. If I'm ever able to get to that area, I'd love to make an episode about it. As it is, this is an unpaid hobby for me, so I just organise episodes around business trips and other travel.
Incredible!!!
Thank you 🙏 Strange Johannesburg.
Your GPS has to ask You for directions! Love your dry humour and storytelling.
Thanks very much! Glad you're enjoying the episode.
Yes, that comment rocked my chair as well 😂😂😂
Please do something on what seem to be the endless Main Reef Road like it was before the name changed and how it ran from Krugersdorp to Germiston and beyond.
I would love to do a similar project. There was a brilliant series called Main Reef Rd in the 90's. Unfortunately, only the trailer remains to be found on RUclips.
Now you putting me back to when I had to do visits to Rustenburg for work and sometimes I would come thru Krugersdorp on Main Reef Road. Got lost a few times and cried a lot. No GPS.
@@KittynFranky7643 My first job in Joburg entailed travelling all over the Witwatersrand. Many tears of frustration shed on the old map book pages! 😜
@@KittynFranky7643Rustenburg was my hometown for a long time and I've been driving the R24 between Johannesburg and Rustenburg countless times.
@@francoisdvanderwesthuizen December was the worst for me in Rustenburg. The heat was a killer.
Excellent
Thank You!
Thanks Al, good story 👍🏻
Glad you like it John. Thanks!
Once again you surprise me with information about places I have walked past without any idea of its History. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for your comment.
I didn't know that about my hometown. Thanks.
If you ever want to do a family history program, the Annandale family history in South Africa might interest you.
From a single 1820 Settler who landed near East London, From Scottish parents, born in London, George Annandale married a Boer and his decendants ended up fighting in the Mogato Uprising, the Jameson Raid, and on into the Boer War against the British.
There are Annandale graves at the Irene Concentration Camp.
There was an Annandale arrested with Robey Leibrandt during WWII.
Maybe your researcher knows more about this.
Hi and thanks for this. Yes, every family has a fascinating history and you're lucky to know yours. Too often the stories get lost.
Yes I agree I work there and live in Hibrow... so sad....
Stay safe.
My place of birth, Ring road, Crown Gardens, close to Gold reef city.
Great stuff AL. I just subscribed. Greetings from Graskop Mpumalanga.
Thanks for your comment and for subscribing! I was in Graskop a couple of months ago. The gorge is a wonderful attraction.
My earliest years were living on a gold mine or prospecting a gold mine. Regardless of how much gold has been mined there is more than was removed in the mines of the Witwatersrand. Children absorb adult conversations without understanding until years later. I can remember hearing men conversing, they were talking about how gold seams were covered up and never mined. There were areas were there was danger of deep sinkholes with houses disappearing. The west rand was a danger area. So maybe some day the gold will come to the surface.
Now that's a good story!
Dishonest trading of the old days. Kensington and Kensington B in Randburg have a similar story
Really? I've always wondered why they're so far apart.
Interesting how the property values have now inverted :)
I have not been to Johannesburg for about 10 years. I have no doubt if I drove there now I would be totally lost.
The roads (or what's left of them) change constantly.
I went to Pretoria for 6 years, I was shocked with the change coming back!
Paul Kruger apparently disliked Johannesburg intensely and grudgingly gave it the beautiful Rissik street post office building - since reduced to a ruin. The development of Pretoria was his focus.
Agreed. Although he did show great compassion for Johannesburg people when he visited after the dynamite disaster. (Episode 26)
You should check out the connection between Ottoshoop and Johannesburg. Quite interesting
Thanks, I will have a look.
In randpark ridge, one of the original houses, when I was a child I remember something of the sort. They've kept the structure but its also a complex I believe, I remember it burning down as a child, in the 1990s😂 not that long ago thou
Very interesting. Seems this practice was more widespread than I realised. Thanks for your comment.
My Great grandfather was Johannes Joubert. We herd another story about the naming of Johannesburg
Would love to hear it.
Eloff street. My grandmother's maiden name.
Should have Bought. Kruger Rand Then... still cant sell them😂😂going up👍
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Johannesburg was named after a german man who owned the piece of land that was first discovered with gold. His name was Johannes
interesting
Thanks
I want my gold back. Everything. Such liars out there.