The original Hohenheim was a tin house on the site of 27 Noord Street of early Johannesburg, nostalgicaly names as such by an early Randlord Hermann Eckstein, having come from the Kimberley Diamond Fields in 1888. He was soon followed in 1889 by a mining colleague Lionel Phillips with wife Florrie and two small children.
BOOK REVIEWS
‘Geomotional’ is a remarkable and beautifully illustrated exploration of – as the sub-title says – ‘Geometric art, past and present’. The book, which has us journey through images, words, poetry and song, and gives account of a ‘performance-installation’, is compiled by Mary Elizabeth Lange, who is prolific in her writings on Indigenous art and story, and various intersections with heritage.
BLUE PLAQUES
The club has offered accommodation to members, initially single men, since its inception. The accommodation was at first relatively simple, in a structure known as the “ Cow Shed”. This building was designed in 1926 in the Arts & Crafts style by Arthur James Marshall and sited so that the rooms command a panoramic view of the Club grounds.