Muizenberg, Cape Town : A rust bucket

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

A rust bucket

So this is the result of the sea spray. The poor chap's car is completely stuffed, one also can only imagine that if this is the out side - what the insides/ brakes and engine are like.

Oh and this type of car in disrepair are quite common on our roads.

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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.