Muizenberg, Cape Town : The wind is a blowing

Saturday, January 24, 2009

The wind is a blowing

Cheers

2 comments:

The Church in the Net said...: Almost a time that I have completely lost touch with, it was all so long, long ago. Thanks for the memory.; January 26, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Unknown said...: No - thank you for the comments.
This week I have posted some fishing photographs, but from next week onwards I will be posting photographs of buildings and scenery from different angles.

Cheers; January 29, 2009 at 9:13 AM

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.