Beaches, Biscuits and Bru's - A Woodstock Heritage Walking Tour

Name: Beaches, Biscuits and Bru's - A Woodstock Heritage Walking Tour
Start: 2026-03-28T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-03-28T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Flatmountain Coffee

Schedule

Sat Mar 28 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Flatmountain Coffee | Cape Town, WC

No part of Cape Town is more Cape Town than Woodstock.
From the start of Sir Lowry to the twist at Salt River Circle, the glamour, the grunge and the glory are unmatched (not to mention the gees). You might have gone on a street art walk before, and seen for yourself how much the community thinks of itself as a broad, infinite canvas, but to our knowledge no-one has yet offered anything like a slightly comprehensive wander through the story and soul of ‘South Africa’s first suburb’.
Think of all the words and places that spring to mind: gentrification, community, Trafalgar Park, spice and fruit markets, Upper and Lower, Alto Mar fisheries, Ruth Prowse, Edwardian houses, Rex Trueform, Queenspark, train yards, taxi-ranks, fine art galleries, painted walls, coding offices, union HQs, the Old Biscuit Mill, Delos Antiques, long-lost cinemas, buried beaches, grand old glaziers, Zhauns, the Old Castle Brewery; Jewish, Muslim and Catholic cemeteries, the very tree under which the Cape was signed over from one colonial power to another, and the last beautiful vestige of the spirit of District Six.
(Shout at me what I’ve forgotten).
Judging from most casual conversations and heated media debates, it seems the battle for Woodstock’s future reflects the struggle for the city’s own destiny. Developers are either displacing the survivors of the Group Areas Act or laying the groundwork for a South African version of Brooklyn or Hackney, or both. And they’ve been doing so for ages.
For the time being though, it’s a mixed and manic cosmos of energies from all over the continent and beyond, building on more than 200 years of strange encounters at the edge and middle of the earth.
So come with a few friends and fam and join me this Saturday at 14h00 at Flatmountain Coffee Roasters to begin to traverse Victoria and Albert Roads and come to grips with the birthplace of Cape Town’s industrial revolution, all the while hearing our genius for paradox and diversity echo across the eras and back to today.
RSVP via Quicket or 076 033 8164 or [email protected] x
Yours,
Cameron of CTHT!
P.S. If you've read this far I'm guessing you'll want even more of the specs, so here goes:
- We'll be starting by Flatmountain Coffee Roasters at 14h00 then finishing by Community House on Salt River Road, so I'd advise doing a two-car system or taking the MyCiTi bus the whole day.
- We've just put up our ticket prices for the first time in two-and-a-half years, from R120pp to R150pp. Obviously this is just to keep with inflation and to allow the tours to remain a sustainable enterprise for the foreseeable future, but this is still about R50 less per person than our nearest competition. In other words, we are deliberately undercharging the tours so as to keep them affordable for locals and visitors alike and to encourage guests to come back weekend after weekend.
- Book via Quicket, WhatsApp us on 076 033 8164, E-mail us on [email protected] or Message us via the buttons on our home page to secure your place.
- We have also just introduced a broad scheme of discounts you can apply for on each tour, so please do consult the list below before contacting us!
- And we've decided to partner with a different local NGO or charity for each and every one of our tour routes so that R10 of every ticket purchased goes directly to a good, sustainable, local cause. For the Woodstock tour, we've chosen to fund-raise for St Anne's Women's Shelters, and you can inspect their brilliance here:
https://www.stanneshomes.org.za
- This is a consistently well-reviewed heritage-focused walking tour; which is to say that all you'll need to enjoy yourself is curiosity about Cape Town's past (and History in general) and enough stamina to walk just less than 3km in one afternoon (with stops and snacks).
- If you're rejoining us, please please please please please please consider dropping us a short (or extensive) review on our Facebook Reviews or Google Reviews section as it will help spread our gospel of curiosity and playful appreciation across the internet and across the spectrum of all potential visitors to the Cape. It helps us more than you can believe!
- You can also add an optional R10 donation on your ticket which will go directly to the NGO Streetscapes as part of our mission to spread love, enthusiasm, mutual support and respect for all of Cape Town's people and histories. Just think how many people we could help and the difference we could make with a few hundred tours!
- Feel absolutely free to spread the word, invite friends who've been looking for this kind of experience and badger us with every imaginable heritage query. We live for it!
Can't wait to meet ya, really! 🙂
THE CTHT DISCOUNT LIST:
1. Guests over 65 and under 18 can claim a 33% discount on each ticket, at R100pp pre-booked.
2. If you buy tickets for both the Saturday and Sunday tours on one weekend, you can claim R50 off each ticket, at R200pp pre-booked.
3. If you buy a Cape Town Heritage Tours Tote-Bag or any of our books on sale at our Half-Booked Online Shop, you can claim a free tour voucher for each piece of merchandise.
4. You can buy individual advance vouchers for our public tours at R150 each and then message in the week before a scheduled tour. But you can also buy value-packs of five for the price of 4 (R600), 10 for the price of 7 (R1050) or all 18 for the price of 10 (R1500).
5. If you bring 2 or more friends on a weekend tour you can claim R30 back on each of your tickets, at R120pp pre-booked.
6. If you share the posts promoting individual tours you can claim R30 back as well, at R120pp.
7. If you review the tours on Google Reviews, Facebook or TripAdvisor (at any rating) you can claim 50% off your next ticket, at R75pp pre-booked.
8. Likewise if you recommend the tours to a friend who then attends a weekend tour, you can claim 50% off your next ticket, at R75pp pre-booked.
See ya next weekend!