Members Meeting
TOPIC: THE HISTORY OF THE VOLMOED COMMUNITY FOR RECONCILIATION AND HEALING SINCE 1986 The name “Volmoed” means ‘courage and hope’ and…
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Members Meeting
Far from being a backwater town, the inhabitants of Kimberley comprised some of the richest people in the world, the titled, the famous,…
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Members Meeting
Members of the Hermanus History Society enjoyed a visit to the Strandveld Museum in Franskraal. This tiny private museum is owned by Jan…
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Members Meeting
Miss Elsa Nel is Department Head: History and Tourism at the Hermanus High School. Her presentation was developed for the 75th anniversary…
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Members Meeting
The Photographic Museum is part of the Old Harbour Museum, which is itself a Provincial Museum, operating within the legislation and…
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Members Meeting
Some of the more interesting historic sites in Hermanus are now ‘public spaces’. Usually this means that ownership vests in the…
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Members Meeting
It was a sunny day when Bea Whittaker introduced 25 members of the Hermanus History Society to the village of Stanford named after Sir…
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Members Meeting
Commercial fishing may have declined, crayfish and perlemoen permits may have been reduced, but we still have first-hand stories that paint…
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Members Meeting
Thomas Bain is internationally regarded as one of the greatest mountain pass builders of the nineteenth century. He pioneered many of the…
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Members Meeting
Hermanus was the home of the world’s oldest living professional photographer, Thomas Ravenscroft, for the last years of his long…
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Members Meeting
Dr Gillian Vernon then addressed the meeting on the topic of historical accounts of the survivors of shipwrecks along the south east coast…
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Members Meeting
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…
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