Muizenberg, Cape Town : From Boyes Drive

Monday, May 18, 2009

From Boyes Drive

Cheers

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Please take a picture of the village one day...I'd love to see Palmer Rd and Killarney Rd.; May 20, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Unknown said...: Will do, they should be ready next week though..

:)

Cheers; May 21, 2009 at 12:30 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.