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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
Anne Frank Exhibition
Marine Hotel at FynArts
Plaque to be erected at ‘wasbakkies’
Economic Issues- An Historical Overview of Hermanus
Marketing Hermanus Internationally Workshop
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Who really was the Walker of Walker Bay?.
Famous author’s link with Hermanus
Recording Mount Pleasant’s history through art
When the history bug bites you
Stalwarts receive recognition at Mayoral Awards Ceremony
James Douglas Logan, the ‘ideal colonist’
People are living there – a story of resilience
Hermanus and HRH Princess Alice
Hermanus and ‘The Queen of the Air’
Hemel en Aarde Valley article 13
Hermanus tearooms of yesteryear
Fires in the ’50s and ’60s
Hermanus’ links to The Great Escape
Life and times of the Balcony Building
Reasons for fires
Hermanus burning: stories of fire
Bringing Hermanus’ cinematic history into focus
Hotels, holidays and the Hermanus economy: Part Two
Hotels, holidays and the Hermanus economy: Part One
Best photographer of his time – One of only five ‘Freemen’
THE COLOURFUL HISTORY OF FICK’S POOL
How I won the Victoria Cross – Story of Major William Hewitt
An Elephant Whisperer in Hermanus? The Story of Harold Langford-Browne
Hermanus in Spring: Wild Flowers, Whales Tourism and Our Economy
Searching for the Gearing of Gearing’s Point
PART III: Sir William Hoy, railways pioneer
PART II: Sir William Hoy (1868-1930)
Sir William Hoy (1868 – 1930) South Africa’s ‘railways colossus’
A picture history of the Riviera Hotel
Hotel Winters in Hermanus Long Ago
Overstrand gets three secret radar stations
Overstrand’s secret ‘SSS’ stations
The blind knitter of Hermanus by Robin Lee
The Royal Hotel and The Allengensky Family
Afrikaners, the Second World War and its aftermath: the case of ‘sailor’ Malan and the torch commando
Loved ones remembered along Cliff Path
The Proud legacy of Alex grant Pharmacy
THE HOUSE AT ROMAN ROCK-AND ITS OWNERS
The Marine was Hermanus’ very own Fawlty Towers
WHO WAS WALKER OF ‘WALKER BAY’?
Berdine Luyt’s ‘John’ – A Wartime Romance?
The New Harbour in Hermanus: Part 2
Hermanus New Harbour
Fire and Hermanus History
A Swallow Makes a Garden
Sir William’s Grave: A Lesson in Dedication
History of Clarence Drive
Hoy’s Koppie: The Jewel of Hermanus
