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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 […]

Professor John de Gruchy and his wife Isobel introduced us to the work of Volmoed Christian Retreat and its history. Isobel told us about the local botany and we were able to see her wild flower paintings.

Dear Member, As some of you will know, the U3A presentation on Artists in Hermanus History scheduled for 24 May had to be postponed for technical reasons. It will be scheduled later in the year, and all History Society members will be advised. Meanwhile, the History Society’s programme for 2021 […]