2022

For tourists, the Cliff Path is another of the town’s attractions, to be enjoyed without needing to consider how it got there. For residents, a walk along it is a soothing and restful experience, away from the day’s cares. For the historian it speaks of 58 years of events that […]

For nearly 100 years no one could correctly identify the person after whom Walker Bay is named. In earlier books on the history of Hermanus, reference is made to a certain ‘Walker’, said to be a ‘Surveyor’ in the Royal Navy, as being the person after whom Walker Bay is […]

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 have been used as cemeteries at […]

The Luyt family in Hermanus had a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Their investments were successful, more often than not. The Marine and Riviera hotels were a longstanding success. P J Luyt had brought his energy and managerial talents to many other organisations in the town, for instance, the Wildflower Society (forerunner […]