Muizenberg, Cape Town : One of the original banks of South Africa

Sunday, July 6, 2008

One of the original banks of South Africa

This is the old Standard bank building in Muizenberg, dating back a century or 2.

This is it for today, as I am still not venturing out into this weather.

Cheers

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: The building overseas are so much more beautiful than here in the states... Americans need that structural imagination.; July 10, 2008 at 6:54 PM

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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.