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SEAFARING JOURNEYS OF OLD

Seafaring Journeys of Old

Take a closer look at the hand-painted murals in the Cape Grace reception and Signal Restaurant and you will find they depict scenes of 17th century Table Bay, with ships arriving at the newly constructed refreshment station at the Cape. In 1657, it took the trading ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), three [...]

350 Year Old Pear Tree – Company’s Gardens

Room 229 at Cape Grace has a hand-painted mural of the Company’s Gardens when it was laid out as a vegetable garden.

Men started tilling the soil to feed not only themselves, but passing Company ships, soon as the Dutch East India Company arrived in 1652. Their labours were not nearly enough to supply the rapidly growing settlement and trade ships, and it wasn’t long before 300 slaves were landed and put to work in the gardens [...]


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