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HTimes 20July 2017 “He stopped the railway coming to Hermanus.” Some residents of the town know that much about Sir William Hoy. Perhaps fewer know that he and his wife are buried on the crown of Hoy’s Koppie, at their own request and because it was Sir William’s favourite place […]

Not many locations that existed in the late 19th or early 20th century in Hermanus have a photographic history of each phase of their lives. One of these is the lesser known Riviera Hotel up above what we now call Grotto Beach. Over the years DR ROBIN LEE of the […]

  June/July 2017 – Courtesy Whale Talk Magazine

Part II: Hangklip, Betty’s Bay and Kleinmond during World War II After the successful trials in Johannesburg, three members of the top secret Special Signal Services (SSS) went about building a network of radar stations along the coast. Setting up the first station in Cape Town was not without its problems, though. Major ‘Boz’ Bozzoli, Lieutenant Eric Boden and Staff […]