Muizenberg, Cape Town : Mist in Muizenberg

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Mist in Muizenberg

I am standing in the main parking area looking up at mountains, mist and building. The building in the centre has been knocked down and just the historical front has been left.

4 comments:

Bergson said...: your sky blue and a orange light yess; June 24, 2008 at 9:25 PM
Tash said...: Spectacular with the mountains right there!; June 26, 2008 at 7:35 AM
Layrayski said...: wow. I imagine what it would be like having to wake up every morning with that spectacular view.; June 29, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Anja F. C. said...: You now posess a historical foto as this facade got destroyed, demolished as we speak. Stupidly I assumed it was going to remain and be built around it and never documented the nice detail it had. {I liked the monkeys}

Anja; August 12, 2008 at 5:48 PM

Interesting Muizenberg

- 1742 the Het Posthuys one of the oldest buildings in South Africa was built.
- 1795 The Battle of Muizenberg was a small but significant military affair that began and ended three months later with the (first) British occupation of the Cape.
- In 1882 the railway line, which for twenty years stopped at Wynberg, was extended to Muizenberg.
- 1895 the Muizenberg Municipality was established.
- 1902 Cecil John Rhodes bought as a holiday cottage and this was where he died.
- 1910 the library opened next to the Natale Labia
- 1911 the Muizenberg Post Office opened.
- 1913 a new railway station was built in Muizenberg.
- 1920 Boyes Drive was completed.