With summer suddenly upon us - well almost - one's fancies turn lightly to sweet thoughts of lounging around pools and sipping orange juice with nothing else to do but relax and soak up the sun. If you are the well heeled sort, you could quickly be divested of thousands of rand in this gorgeous little collection of outlets selling garden furniture, parasols, kitchenware and other delightful non-essentials, Chelsea Garden and Home. Under the roof of an old Wynberg house, Kleine Oude, (said to have been built in 1798) it is well worth a visit. According to Helen Robinson in her book Wynberg: A special place, this was also the site of the first general store that was built near a ford at the foot of Carr Hill shortly after the Oude Wijnberg farm was subdivided.
Winthrop House in Carr Hill Road in Wynberg's Little Chelsea district used to be the Officer's Mess for the Wynberg Military Camp in the early days of the Wynberg's history, until they moved buildings in 1880s. This is what it looks like today, and below is what it looked like in the late 1800s. 
Cape Town Time
11 years ago
