somerset hospital visiting hours Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/somerset-hospital-visiting-hours Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:00:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 NEW SOMERSET HOSPITAL V&A Waterfront Cape Town http://travelsfinders.com/new-somerset-hospital-va-waterfront-cape-town.html http://travelsfinders.com/new-somerset-hospital-va-waterfront-cape-town.html#respond Sun, 26 Nov 2017 15:09:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=247118 This building was designed by Colonial Engineer Scott-Tucker, working with Henry Greaves, from the mid-1800s the architectural director of the Public Works Department of the Cape Colony. The fe is nothing more unglamorous than a hospital. The New Somerset Hospital is no exception. Its appearance, however, is cause for some excitement: a Gothic Revival cake with castellated parapets on the African shores of the Atlantic. It must have been a romantic sight when it opened in 1862. Its style had a purpose: it embodied the governor of the Cape Colony, Sir George Grey’s, belief in the moral value of public

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