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14-798: Hiscock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dave Hiscock (born 1953), New Zealand motorcycle racer Eileen Hiscock (1909–1958), British athlete Eric Hiscock (1908–1986), British sailor and author Frank Hiscock (1834–1914), American politician Frank H. Hiscock (1856–1946), American lawyer and judge Neville Hiscock (1951–1983), New Zealand motorcycle racer Peter Hiscock (born 1957), Australian archaeologist Thomas Hiscock (1812–1855), English blacksmith and prospector See also [ edit ] Hiscock Site , archaeological dig site in Byron, New York, United States [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

28-635: A Suzuki GSX1100 Katana that Dave and Neville shared. In all, Hiscock won the New Zealand Castrol Six Hour race five times. He also achieved placings in the Australian Castrol Six Hour Race five times. In 1977 he was second in the 750 class on a GS750, finishing fifth overall with fellow Kiwi Peter Fleming. Hiscock also competed in the Isle of Man TT Classic gaining several place holdings, and also

42-619: A demonstration lap around the Wanganui Cemetery Circuit on one of his old bikes, The Steve Roberts Built Plastic Fantastic. Killarney, South Africa Killarney is a suburb of Johannesburg , South Africa. A relatively wealthy area, located west of the M1 freeway, Killarney is a densely built-up area, and it has numerous apartment blocks, as well as a large shopping mall, Killarney Mall . Neighbouring suburbs include Houghton Estate , Riviera , and Parktown . It

56-547: A vineyard, an orangery, a shrubbery, a pinery, a paradise, a picnic spot, a health resort, a township and a home’. Schlesinger, who lived in Whitehall Court, wanted to preserve this character of the suburb and was very particular about tidiness. If the construction workers accidentally spilt sand or some rubble over the sites’ boundaries, he immediately received a letter from Schlesinger’s office: ‘Please, keep Killarney clean!’ The area attracted many Jews. I W Schlesinger,

70-838: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Dave Hiscock Hiscock and elder brother Neville grew up in Stokes Valley , a suburb of Lower Hutt in Greater Wellington, where the pair rode an old BSA Bantam in grass paddocks and later perfected their skills on the Rimutaka Hill climb north of Upper Hutt . David and Neville began racing in 1972 at the Gracefield street circuit in Lower Hutt on Commando 750s. Dave finished eighth and Neville finished in fifth place. Hiscock achieved fame in

84-659: Is home to the first shopping mall in Johannesburg . It was formerly known as the Hollywood of Johannesburg, due it being the location of one of the first film studios in South Africa . Killarney currently is home to consulates, tall residential building (including some of Johannesburg's best examples of Art Deco architecture) and a golf course. There is a large Jewish and Muslim community in Killarney. Killarney

98-542: Is very cosmopolitan and also has a large gay community. In the early 1930s, the land in Killarney, an outlying northern suburb, belonged to I.W. Schlesinger ’s African Realty Trust. ‘The Uncrowned King of Africa’ had bought the 43-hectare for £120,000. According to his plan, the majority of the sites were not to be built up. They were to remain a park area. Still, he demarcated a few areas for buildings. US-born Schlesinger wanted to transplant American ways to South African soil, and particularly to his domain, Killarney. On

112-800: The British and World F1 TT Championships , finishing third in both the Isle of Man TT formula 1 and World Road Race Championship in 1982, and finishing 2nd in the British Street Bike Series in 1981. Hiscock retired from competitive racing shortly after his brother was killed in February 1983 while racing at Killarney near Cape Town in South Africa. Hiscock lived in South Africa for a number of years before moving to Australia. On Boxing Day 2009, he returned to New Zealand and rode

126-445: The surname Hiscock . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hiscock&oldid=1234971245 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from July 2024 Articles with short description Short description

140-578: The 1970s and early 1980s, when he dominated the big-bike production class in Australia and New Zealand, gaining 40 consecutive wins on Suzuki GS1000 and GSX1100 bikes over the course of two seasons. His brother Neville was also an accomplished rider of 500cc, 750cc and 1100c motorcycles. The Hiscocks would race against each other or work together as a team, with one team win in the New Zealand Castrol Six Hour Race in 1982 on

154-501: The grounds currently occupied by the mall, he built African Film Studios, Johannesburg’s answer to Hollywood. This man, one of the richest in the country, preferred to live in a flat, New York–style. This might explain his decision to sell sites in the suburb for development of modern apartment blocks. Daventry Court was probably the first multi-storied block of flats erected in Killarney in the 1930s. In its adverts, African Realty Trust used to describe Killarney as ‘a garden, an orchard,

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168-788: The initial developer, was always open about his Jewish identity. He set up several facilities in Killarney that welcomed his co-religionists: the Transvaal Automobile Club or the Killarney Golf Course. There were quite a few Jewish tenants in Daventry Court from the very beginning. By the 1960-70s, the status of Killarney had changed. It was no longer an area of choice for the forward-looking people. The average tenants were middle-aged or even elderly. Fay Susser-Sher remarks in her thesis on Killarney: ‘Often after having brought up children on large plots in

182-446: The suburb’s White population were older than sixty-five. These days, Killarney is no longer the sparsely populated suburb it was at the inception of Daventry Court. There are almost sixty apartment blocks here, of which Whitehall Court and our building are the oldest. Killarney has become more cosmopolitan. Though Pick ‘n Pay at the mall still has a large kosher department, the suburb has lost its predominantly Jewish character. Gone are

196-470: The very affluent suburb of Lower Houghton, the parents, after the children had left home, sold the houses and then moved into flats in Killarney.’ Many of them settled there for life. A very prominent section consisted of affluent Jews, members of the Oxford Shul congregation, attended by Black domestic servants who lived in the outbuildings next to the block. According to the 1985 census about half of

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