After a journey of more than 2.5 years, I have finally made the it down to Wolfe Street and Maynardville.You will be pleased to hear that I haven't been walking or driving down St John's and Carr Hill Roads from St John's Church at the top, since June 2011! The 400 odd metres can be walked in 5 minutes and driven in about 1 minute if the traffic lights are green.
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| Wynberg's old Dutch Reformed Church |
The most striking landmark between St John's Church at the top of the road and Maynardville is the Dutch Reformed Church of Wynberg. For about a century, the residents within the Wynberg area had to travel to the mother church in Cape Town on generally bad roads, so it was surely with some celebration that the Wynberg Church was finally consecrated in 1832.
Maynardville Park is probably best known for the
Maynarville Open-Air Theatre, where invariably there is a Shakespearean production.
The theatre season is usually just over a month during parts of January and February, during the height of our Cape Town summer. Being a winter rainfall region, the organisers hold thumbs that rain doesn't result in cancellations, but on rare occasions this is unavoidable
