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A HISTORY of a Bantry Bay LANDMARK Historical Background the History of the President Hotel Is Entangled with the Rich Heritage of Bantry Bay and Sea Point A HISTORY of a Bantry Bay LANDMARK Historical background The history of the President Hotel is entangled with the rich heritage of Bantry Bay and Sea Point. A variety of fascinating buildings has stood on the site since 1766, from the Society House to the Queen’s Hotel HE PRESIDENT HOTEL has a long and interesting history that can be traced back Cape, disembarking in this strange, but beautiful Tto the very beginnings of the areas now land,to go whereany further), he and and his hemen stopped climbed off the at thesoaring known as Bantry Bay and Sea Point. A hotel has granite rock formation now known as Lion’s , stood on the site for some 150 years, and before Head. They reputedly carved a cross into the rock face to honour God and the Portuguese king. building in the area – stood on this portion of Other European explorers followed, until in landthat, thatthe Society once stretched House – downthe first to thesubstantial sea and 1652 a contingent of Dutch East India Company ABOVE The Sea Point/Bantry Bay area was once a wild, up the slopes of Lion’s Head to Kloof Road. undeveloped place, used by the Khoekhoe people for Once the shoreline of the Atlantic Seaboard leadership of Commander Jan van Riebeeck, seasonal grazing for their cattle, and occasionally visited was roamed by indigenous nomadic people, landed(VOC) officials with instructions and employees, to set underup a refreshment the by early European explorers. Predators once lived on station at the Cape to supply passing ships with the mountain and roamed the shores looking for prey. the ocean’s abundant sea life as a source of food. fresh fruit, meat and grain. In those days, ship This fantastical looking ‘tyger’ (leopard) was drawn by who relied on the rock pools for shellfish and voyages were long, arduous journeys during astronomer, naturalist and artist Peter Kolbe in 1727. In attest to the fact that they lived in and around which passengers had to endure months of damp, the 17th century, a soldier was killed by a lion near where Their shell middens (piles of discarded shellfish) cramped and unsanitary conditions, where the the President Hotel now stands. Duikers (small buck) were European explorers set foot at the Cape. lack of fresh fruit resulted in scurvy and other still being shot on the rocks near the site of the hotel in the Cape Town thousands of years before the first 1890s. Although these wild animals are long gone, whales But their unhurried lifestyle in this paradise diseases, and many died on the way. The founding de Goede Hoop kaap beschryving van en uitvoerige Naaukeurige and porpoises can still be seen in the waters of the at the foot of Africa was to come to an end when of the refreshment station at the Cape would Atlantic Seaboard. the age of exploration took hold in the seafaring alleviate both the length of these journeys, as well OPPOSITE An early photo of Bantry Bay. countries of Europe. In 1488, Portuguese as the lack of fresh produce and water on board. explorer Bartolomeu Dias was returning from an aborted ship voyage to India (his crew refused vicinity of what is now the Fan Park next to Green from image Kolbe Peter Libraries 1727, University of California At first, Van Riebeeck tried to plant grain in the 2 – THE PRESIDENT HOTEL – A History of a Bantry Bay Landmark Point Stadium. Lashed by gales sweeping off the Atlantic in winter and strong summer South- easter winds in the warmer months, the wheat would be destroyed before it could be harvested. The experiment was repeated – this time more successfully – in the more protected Liesbeek Valley (around Table Mountain, between what is discovered that the area below Lion’s Head was betternow Salt suited River to and grazing Bishopscourt). cattle and growingLater, it wasbarley. The coastline between the growing settlement at Cape Town and Hout Bay remained largely unoccupied (the indigenous Khoekhoe people, who once had the area to themselves, were being wild and untamed place where lions roamed and leopardsdisplaced and by the jackals European looked settlers). for prey Itfrom was their a hideouts on the rocky outcrops and in the kloofs above the bay. Fishing in the area could be perilous in the 17th century. Apart from the risk of being washed into Western Cape Archives & Records Service: AG 4053 the cold Atlantic sea by massive winter waves, one also had to keep a lookout for land-based predators. Louis Labé, a French soldier, was taken by a lion in 1659 while angling from the rocks not Louis Labé, a French soldier, was taken by a lion in far from where the President Hotel now stands. His mauled, partially decapitated body was later 1659 while angling from the rocks not far from where found in the vicinity of the appropriately named Lion’s Head! the President Hotel now stands 3 Engraving by Philippus Velijn from Jacob Haafner’s Lotgevallen en Vroegere Zeereizen (Amsterdam, 1820), from the Collections of Parliament, Cape Town: 267 & 33762 much else. There were, however, also springs and rivulets that would provide vital water for household uses and quench the thirst of men, be cultivated (barley was later planted on the horses and oxen, and flattish areas that could asproperty). it still does The today, land Berghwith unobstructed and Van Schoor views chose of (just under a hectare) had an enviable position, a beautiful backdrop provided by Lion’s Head. theMuch sea, likeBantry most Bay of (asthe it buildings is now known) that were and later built in the area, the Society House was farmhouses of Gardens in Cape Town, and the flat-roofed (not thatched and gabled like the It was a rather substantial building for a holidayhomesteads retreat, that not lined some the wooden Liesbeek shack, River). but built it, and to accommodate their families (and befitting the status of the wealthy burghers who THE SOCIETY HOUSE (SOCIETEITS HUIS) Adriaan van Schoor, who wanted a country been brought from West Africa and the East, It was not until the mid-18th century that any retreat for recreation, to alleviate boredom wereslaves used no doubt). for everything At that time, from slaves, manual who labour had sort of building of consequence was erected in the Bantry Bay/Sea Point area, thereby grime of the growing Cape Town (then known and water. (Wealthy citizens would sometimes (the curse of the rich) and escape the filth and to household chores, such as fetching firewood substantial building here was the Society House, which was eventually granted by then Governor The building had a covered veranda supported built‘taming’ in 1766 this previously (where the wild President expanse. Hotel The now first Rykas Kaapse Tulbagh Vlek). in October They requested that year. a parcel of land, byown pillars, up to no30 doubt or 40 toslaves.) provide shade in summer It was situated in a wind-protected area from the heat and the blinding glare off the by wealthy burghers Martin Oloff Bergh and surrounded by dunes, scrub, rocks and not ocean. By 1767, it had become somewhat of a stands) for the African Society, a club formed 4 – THE PRESIDENT HOTEL – A History of a Bantry Bay Landmark W. Austin. The arrival of the French generals Jarmin and Collineau at Sea Point House, to be received by Chief Justice William Hodges, on their way to China in 1860. From the Collections of Parliament, Cape Town OPPOSITE PAGE An early portrayal of the Society House by traveller Jacob Haafner, from 1769, three years after it was built. It was the first building of consequence in the Sea Point/Bantry Bay area. The modern President Hotel stands on part of the old estate today. Note the long covered veranda supported by pillars, which would have provided much-needed shade from the sun’s glare off the sea during summer, as well as shelter from lashing winter gales. Wild animals still roamed the slopes of Lion’s Head (seen behind). RIGHT In the 19th century, after a period of neglect, the Society House was remodelled and became a private home, named Sea Point House, with a new central tower, Gothic windows and stoepkamers on either side of the veranda. neighbour when a German botanist, The grounds of the Society House stretched up to St John’s Dr Friedrich Ludwig Liesching, was granted a piece of land behind the house, high Road, Sea Point, during Henry Alexander’s time up on the granite hill in what is now Bantry Bay. Around that time, the old Society House was landmark, and everybody who was anybody in impressed. Lady Anne commented that when acquired by a farmer, Marthinus Keet, who was Cape Town high society would travel there to be Andrew rode out to inspect the place, he found probably responsible for the planting of barley ‘seen’, hence the name Societeits Huis (Society it ‘out of repair and low...’ and they declined, Heerenhuis despite its wonderful outlook and tempting come though, when in 1810 another wealthy Its heyday must have been brief though, as private bathing opportunities. landownerin the surrounding took possession fields. Big of changes the Society were to whenHouse), Lady also Anne Barnard (House and her of thehusband, Gentry). House. Englishman Henry Alexander bought Colonial Secretary of the Cape of Good Hope, SEA POINT HOUSE the property and added two extensive portions Andrew Barnard, arrived at the Cape in 1797, The early 19th century (by which time the the Society House was vacant, and was one of total. He then owned much of what is now Sea the places they were offered as accommodation Point,of land Bantry measuring Bay and 70 morgen Fresnaye, (60 stretching hectares) up in during their years-long stay.
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