Members Meeting Archive

Thomas Bain is internationally regarded as one of the greatest mountain pass builders of the nineteenth century.  He pioneered many of the techniques still in use today.  He had the reputation of being “the engineer with the theodolite eyes”! One of his first jobs, at the age of 16, was […]

Hermanus was the home of the world’s oldest living professional photographer, Thomas Ravenscroft, for the last years of his long life. Certainly South Africa’s most famous photographer, whose career spanned two centuries, Thomas Ravenscroft left a volume of work to the nation which remains a source of great historical significance […]

Dr Gillian Vernon then addressed the meeting on the topic of historical accounts of the survivors of shipwrecks along the south east coast in the 16th to 18th century. 21 April See her latest book (Even the Cows were Amazed) in our Book Section

The Hermanus History Society’s first members’ meeting for 2015 was on 2 February at the Windsor Hotel. Dr Robin Lee told members that the HHS publication In Those Days: The Story of Joey van Rhyn Luyt at the Marine Hotel, Hermanus was completely sold out and the society was considering […]