History Narratives

November 17, 2021
Hermanus History Society

DESTINATION HERMANUS

The first hints of summer are in the air, and maybe the fourth surge of Covid 19 will not materialise in December. If the weather holds and Covid stays away, thousands of tourists, holidaymakers and owners of family holiday homes will be travelling to destination Hermanus in December. Their travel […]
November 17, 2021
Hermanus History Society

DESTINATION HERMANUS

The first hints of summer are in the air, and maybe the fourth surge of Covid 19 will not materialise in December. If the weather holds and Covid stays away, thousands of tourists, holidaymakers and owners of family holiday homes will be travelling to destination Hermanus in December. Their travel […]
November 17, 2021
Hermanus History Society

UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE: OVERBERG

DATE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2021 TIME: 10.00 VENUE: CATHOLIC CHURCH HALL, EASTCLIFF, HERMANUS (also on zoom, see link below) PRESENTER: ROBIN LEE THE HISTORIES OF HUMAN POPULATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS IN THE OVERSTRAND We can distinguish three phases of human occupation in the area that is now the Overstrand Local Municipality. The […]
November 17, 2021
Hermanus History Society

The Riviera Hotel, the Grottos, and Grotto Beach

The Riviera Hotel, the Grottos, and Grotto Beach By Dr. Robin Lee The grottos, Grotto Beach and Piet-se-Bos today The earliest written reference I can find to the grottos in Hermanus is in a Memoir by Nancy Okes (nee Napier) whose family traveled from Cape Town every year in the […]