iziko old town house museum Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/iziko-old-town-house-museum Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:00:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 BERTRAM HOUSE MUSEUM Gardens Cape Town http://travelsfinders.com/bertram-house-museum-gardens-cape-town.html http://travelsfinders.com/bertram-house-museum-gardens-cape-town.html#respond Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:04:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=247122 In the dining room at the front of the house, by the front door, new wallpaper was matched to Georgian wallpaper for the perfect fit tram House was built in about 1820, at a time when brick houses were fashionable, Britain was in control of the Cape of Good Hope, and a more civilizing attitude to life prevailed. In September 1800, Robert Semple, a Scottish-American merchant who lived briefly in the city, published his impressions of life here, recording that ‘the English… are everyday improving and beautifying the town. Nowhere are the refinements of the day more evident than in

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