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Esje du Toit grew up on a farm  just outside during the war years and from an early age she wanted to know more about the ‘olden days’. She wondered what the places she knew had looked like before, and who the people were who once lived there. As she […]

INTRODUCTION:  ORAL HISTORY by Walt Mapham Ian’s oral history of his own life in South Africa and the lives of people around him is like the passing down of a family’s heirloom. It provides a fuller, more accurate picture of the past by putting small history (personal) in context of big […]

Members Meetings: 2 previous site visits (Maanschijn and St Peters’ Church) shown on our website Photographic History – Hermanus “The proposed book on photographs of old Hermanus is still on track. Most, if not all, the photographs have been selected and at the moment captions to the photographs are being […]

I was sent a video of this bottle with the label Westcott and asked to throw light on its history. I was assisted by Mike Clark and Jack van Dyk of our committee. The mineral factory is mentioned in a number of Robin Lee’s stories in our website:  www.hermanus-history-society.co.za Westcott’s […]