Melrose: blend of hype and heritage

If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in traffic between the glass towers of Sandton and the trendy pavements of Rosebank, you’ve passed through Melrose. It’s an upmarket pocket of Jozi that feels like a deep breath of fresh air and it turns out, we have a Scotsman named Henry Brown Marshall to thank for that. 

Before Johannesburg was even a glint in a gold miner’s eye, Marshall was running a transport business between Durban and the Highveld. By 1886, he was buying land. 

He...