Muizenberg, Cape Town : Palmer Road III

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Palmer Road III

Cheerz

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Thanks very much for taking and posting these photos - I check your site almost daily for photos. (and have done so for some time)

Besides that you take really good photos - I own a house in the village (on Killarney Rd). People always take photos of the huts and the beach, which of course is nice but I think the village has so much potential - it is so unique.

I live in the US now and I miss South Africa a lot - so thank you for posting the pictures and keeping me somewhat connected to that special corner of the earth.

Sabine; June 3, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Unknown said...: Thank you very much and as you have asked so nicely, the next few weeks I will dedicate to the village and surrounds.

Cheerz
James; June 4, 2009 at 9:18 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.