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HHS Nomination for a Cultural Affairs Award 2016/17
Victoria Cross Remembered – 100 years later
Ella Gordon’s Story
Horse Whisperer’s Story Comes to Stage in Hermanus
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Marine Hotel at FynArts
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GREAT FIRES OF HERMANUS
Fires in Hermanus
The Cypress Tree Tea Gardens
THE GOLDFISH CAFÉ AT GROTTO BEACH(also known as the Driftwood Den and Nautilus):
ANGLING IN HERMANUS SUMMERS LONG AGO
CHRISTMAS AT THE MARINE HOTEL, HERMANUS: 1945
SHORT HISTORY OF THE CLIFF PATH, HERMANUS
WHO IS THE ‘WALKER’ IN ‘WALKER BAY’?
YOU CAN HELP: BEHIND THE KOPPIE
The Birkenhead Hotel
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF THE HERMANUS HOTELS
DESTINATION HERMANUS (third Instalment)
DESTINATION HERMANUS
DESTINATION HERMANUS
UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE: OVERBERG
The Riviera Hotel, the Grottos, and Grotto Beach
TOPIC: ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE GREATER HERMANUS AREA
F SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-194O): THE MAN WHO NAMED THE JAZZ AGE
British and Irish Lions in Hermanus
The Fernkloof Nature Reserve by Dr Robin Lee
The Jewish Community in Hermanus
CAFES IN OLD HERMANUS
Hermanus history and powered flight – Part 2
Hermanus history and powered flight – Part 1
CAFES IN OLD HERMANUS
Dear Members
HERMANUS BEACHES
THE HERMANUS LIBRARY: NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T
Lemm’s Corner (Part 2)
YOUR RESPONSES TO MY POST: HERMANUS AND POWERED FLIGHT
Lemm’s Corner
KLIPKOP CAVE ON HOY’S KOPPIE
THE PICKSTONE FAMILY AND HERMANUS
Swallow Park, Hermanus
THE LUYT FAMILY AT THE MARINE HOTEL AND SCHOONGEZICHT (Part 2)
THE LUYT FAMILY AT THE MARINE HOTEL AND SCHOONGEZICHT (Part 1)
‘RING, TELEPHONE, RING’: A SHORT HISTORY OF HERMANUS TELEPHONES
The history of Hermanus Post Office
TWENTY FOUR THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOUR HERMANUS HERITAGE
Schoongezicht: Home of the Luyt family
Gearing’s Point
Visbaai 1875
Eastcliff and beyond, from Hoy’s Koppie 1910
Greater Hermanus
SIR WILLIAM HOY’S IDEA IMPLEMENTED – 100 YEARS LATER
About Gearing
A HOLIDAY COTTAGE AND A HOLIDAY VILLA
MORE ABOUT PEOPLE – 1930-1939
HERMANUS AND ‘THE QUEEN OF THE AIR’
Stuart Cloete and Mildred West
THE SINGLE INDIAN BUSINESSMAN IN HERMANUS
Faces to names, well known people linked to Hermanus
The Old Harbour -the birthplace of our town
MAIN ROAD, HERMANUS – ALSO KNOWN AS MAIN STREET, HERMANUS
