October 3, 2018

A distinctive place, pavement life essential

With the CBD revitalisation set to start in High Street next year, Robin Lee and Angela Heslop for the Hermanus History Society weigh in on how this vital project should be dealt with. The 1989 American film Field of Dreams concerns a man obsessed with building a baseball diamond (field) […]
October 2, 2018

Fires in the ’50s and ’60s

Part 3 of 3: The Great Fires of Hermanus In trying to identify as many fires as possible I have consulted all written histories of Hermanus, all written memoirs and scanned issues of the Hermanus Times, which has had different names over time. I have arranged the data in chronological order. […]
September 19, 2018

Hermanus Cliff Path: what’s in a name?

September 18, 2018

The Van Riebeeck Society for Southern Africa 1918-2018

National Library of South Africa The Society will turn 100 in August 2018 and since its inception in 1918, has published one volume of meticulously edited original South African historical documents a year. The Society was established at that time because its founders sought to provide a sense of the […]