Cemetery information:- The first burial in New Cemetery (Brixton) was in 1910 as the Braamfontein Cemetery filled up and more space was needed. As early as 1905 it was reported that “Braamfontein would be fully occupied within 20 months” with 50 burials a week. Brixton is 84 acres in size, located approximately one kilometre west of Braamfontein Cemetery. It was the principal Johannesburg cemetery until it reached capacity and was replaced by West Park/Montgomery Park Cemetery in 1942. However, Brixton comprises many family plots so people continued to be buried there even after West Park had been opened. (source: https://www.theheritageportal.co.za/article/nostalgia-and-remembrance-brixton-cemetery) The Jewish section (incomplete) of the cemetery is included in this album.
Album incomplete, we do not have photographs of all the headstones.
Photographs by Annelie Els, Penny Shaddock, Frik Venter, Johan Viktor, Derek Walker, Fanie Buys, Tombi Peck, Brian Britz, Johan Reyneke, Gwyneth Thomas, Mathilda van Zyl, Peter & Beverley Moss, Clem Berry, Johan Neethling, Sarah Welham, Blanche Price, Ronellda Cronje, Annette van Rensburg, Gail Wilson & Christopher Fitchet.
eGGSA captions done by: Angela de Klerk, Heleen Nel, Fanie Buys, Wilna Eygelaar, Eleanor Garvie, Dal Good, Brian Britz, Esmé van der Westhuizen, James Anderson, Sandie Williams, Kenneth Knight, Annel Meyer, Don Woodford, Lisa Botes, Andries Holtzhausen, Eileen de Jager, Lorraine Beechey, Arlene Leggat, George Crewe, Retha Hillman, Carol Gainsford, Riana le Roux, Fern Swales
The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has record of the cemetery location:- Cemetery ID: 2251 Google Earth Project Information:- GPSID: 2645 GPS: -26 11.883, 28 00.916
