Members Meeting Archive
November 19, 2018
Date and Venue: Monday 8 October at 4 pm in the Catholic Church Hall. Non-Members: R20. Beverages served Summary: Grave Encounters refers to an illustrated book about more than 20 years of archaeological work in the burial grounds of Green Point, Cape Town. The VOC and churches established cemeteries there, but many […]
October 2, 2018
RE-THINKING HERMANUS HISTORY: ECONOMIC GROWTH IN A UNIQUE SOUTH AFRICAN TOWN PRESENTED BY ROBIN LEE MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2018 VENUE: CATHOLIC CHURCH HALL TIME: 16.00 (REFRESHMENTS FROM 15.30) You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school (Stephen Ambrose) Historians and readers of […]
July 26, 2018
SPEAKER: ANGELA HESLOP, CHAIRPERSON, HERMANUS HISTORY SOCIETY VENUE: CATHOLIC CHURCH HALL TIME: 16.00 (REFRESHMENTS FROM 15.30) Zwelihle: An Oral History Project Angela Heslop who worked in Zwelihle in early 2000s, setting up a home-based nursing service, got to know and respect people in this suburb. As a member of the […]
June 13, 2018
THE OLD KRAAL AT GREYTON Realising that a very vital heritage site had been lost to Greytonians, Felicity Jervis set about researching and digging to discover where the village’s Old Kraal had been. Since the earliest history of the Weltevredend valley in which Greyton was founded, the plains were inhabited […]