History Narratives

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]