Stories Archive
October 13, 2023
Esje du Toit grew up on a farm just outside during the war years and from an early age she wanted to know more about the ‘olden days’. She wondered what the places she knew had looked like before, and who the people were who once lived there. As she […]
March 14, 2022
On-line access to historic printed books and archives have finally answered the question, “Who really was the Walker of Walker Bay?” Read the original article by Robin Lee: https://www.hermanus-history-society.co.za/2017/01/30/who-was-walker-of-walker-bay/ Christopher Barends, the author of this article, was born in Cape Town and grew up in Camps Bay. A graduate of UCT […]
October 17, 2019
Writer Dr Robin Lee British author, Nicholas Monsarrat (1910 –1979) spent several years in South Africa after World War II. Some of this time he spent in Hermanus, where he found The Marine Hotel a conducive place to work on his first and best-selling novel, The Cruel Sea. At the […]
October 17, 2019
Writer Elaine Davie Following the successful completion of the Zwelihle section of the Hermanus Living Tapestry project towards the end of 2018, embroiderers from Mount Pleasant started work on their section of the tapestry last week. With the assistance of founder, Carol Hofmeyr and two of the embroidery teachers of […]