The Cape of Storms -- Fort de Goede Hoop -- The Settler's First Fortification -- The Origins of the Company Garden -- Castle Good Hope -- A Piece of Cape Town in a Church in England -- Districts of Cape Town -- Trafalgar Park and French Redoubt -- Heritage site worth saving -- The Woodstock Destructor -- The Treaty Tree -- Place of Cape Surrender -- The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin -- The Bells of St Mary's -- Albert Road -- The First Man to Broadcast in Cape Town -- A fitting monument to South Africa's greatest moment in medical history -- Ernest Quilter and the Lady with the Lamp -- Rhodes Memorial -- A Spectacular Monument -- Dutch Technology arrives at the Cape -- The 1804 Dysentery Epidemic on Rondebosch Common -- Starke Ayres -- On the banks of the Liesbeek since 1920 -- The Josephine Mill -- Sir John Frederick William Herschel and Fake News -- The Arderne Gardens in Claremont -- Kirstenbosch -- The Wild Almond Hedge -- The House that Simon built. History and background to the Groot Constantia Estate -- The Spectral Horseman at the Ghostly Manor of Tokai -- Catherina Ras -- A Pioneer woman -- The Legendary 'Spotty' -- The First International Motor Race at the Cape -- The 1795 Battle of Muizenberg -- Muizenberg Station -- Het Posthuys -- The Muizenberg to Kommetjie Bus Service (1902 -- 1905) -- The Cottage at the Sea -- The Fishing Village of Kalk Bay -- Whaling in False Bay -- 'No Public Winehouse' in Fish Hoek -- Peers Cave and the Fish Hoek Man -- Simon's Town January 1901 -- Building Commences on the East Yard -- Simon's Town Aerial Ropeway -- Roman Rock Lighthouse -- Enduring the test of time -- The Martello Tower -- Simon's Town -- Mistaken Heraldry -- The story behind Simon's Town's Coat of Arms -- The Simon's Town Stocks -- Simon's Town's Canine Nuisance -- A Lobnitz Monster -- SAS Pietermaritzburg -- Wild Neighbours of the South Peninsula -- The Puzzle of the Cannon on Paulsberg -- Cruel mists and clouds at Cape Point -- The Bellows Blow -- The Wreck of the Lusitania -- 1911 -- The First Motor journey to Cape Point -- Cape of Good Hope -- The Discovery that changed the World -- The Peninsula's Ship Trap -- Albatross Rock -- A Road maker's Dream -- The road around the Peninsula -- The Flying Dutchman -- The World's most famous Maritime Legend -- The Kommetjie Wireless Station -- The Introduction of Radar to Hout Bay and the Peninsula -- Slangkoppunt -- The Tallest Lighthouse on the SA Coast -- The wreck of the Clan Munroe -- Imhoff Farm -- Confusion in the Mist -- The wreck of the SS Kakapo -- The Northern Corner -- An account of an Ascent of Chapman's Peak in 1892 -- Looking back on Chapman's Peak drive -- Hout Bay -- A Brief History -- East Fort on Chapman's Peak Drive -- The Early Hotels of Hout Bay -- The Leopard at Flora Bay -- A business initiated from a converted bus -- Still Holding Sway in Majestic Hout Bay -- Africa's First Harbourfront Emporium -- Manganese Mining in Hout Bay -- Kronendal -- World of Birds -- The Wreck of the SS Maori -- The First Shaw Savill Wreck at the Cape -- The Sea Point Battery -- Green Point or Mouille Point Light? -- The Great Cape Gale of 1865 And the Wreck RMS Athens -- The Noon Gun of Cape Town -- Cape Town's Time-ball Tower -- Defending the Cape of Good Hope -- The Chavonnes Battery -- The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway.
Summary:
Around the Cape in eighty ways embraces eighty splendid articles and stories that relate to the history of the colourful Cape Peninsula. The publication follows the road around the Peninsula telling the stories of present times and days gone by at this fascinating part of the world. The reader will surely enjoy stories of shipwrecks, legends, battles, motor racing, lighthouses and much more. The wide range of subject matter makes the publication pleasurable reading for anyone interested in the historical moments at the Cape.
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