Less illustrious than Braamfontein, Brixton Cemetery is no less splendid! The first curving row on our visit includes three Baronets and their Lady wives, Anglicans to the left, Presbyterians to the right, but all rather rich with handsome family plots. This will not be our last brush with greatness – we later visit a knight of the realm who earned his honours.

But Joburg has always had far more troublemakers than dutiful servants, and we will pay our respects to strikers of 1922: Taffy Long and JT Bain (He Made History the grave proclaims). The Mayoral Row includes our favourite troublemaker of them all, Mary Fitzgerald and her husband Archie Crawford.

And we do not forget our artists and celebrities: editors, a film star (the noisy ones), the sadly damaged grave of the artistic Webster family, and the wonderful George Ness who was responsible for the ornamental brass and iron work for Herbert Baker.

We are in cemetery, so our visit ends on a suitably ghoulish note – the victims of Daisy de Melker.

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MEET: Flo Bird, Gail Wilson and Sarah Welham

VENUE: Brixton Cemetery - enter from enter from 17th Street, the East Gate, and park on the first road near the West Gate. We will have car guards.

TIME: 14h00

DURATION: Approximately 2.5 hours

COST: R90.00 for members / R150.00 for non-members

MAXIMUM No: 50