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Previous History Meetings: 13 June John Garlick by Sherry Garlick Stanton: 465 You Tube views. Personal History of Gansbaai by Philip Fourie 25 April: 313 You Tube views. I have learnt about a fascinating museum in Grabouw: Trail’s End Bicycle Museum displaying the history of bicycles, open since October 2021. […]

Robin Lee has resigned from the committee as he will need time to complete his book. I will take over his diligent secretarial work however I will welcome assistance should anyone offer. As we have had 2 members meeting in April, the next meeting will be will be on 13th […]

T housands of visitors, holidaymakers and owners of family holiday homes will be travelling to destination Hermanus this December. Their trips may be short and by car only, say from Cape Town; or they may be longer, involving air travel from other parts of the country and, to a lesser […]

Writer Robin Lee, Hermanus History Society We have several words in English to refer to places where we bury our dead: burying ground, burial place, graveyard, churchyard and cemetery, for example. In the history of Hermanus, different terms have been used at different times. It also appears that different places […]