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Feldhausen Photo Gallery: After Herschel

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Photo Gallery:
Feldhausen during Herschel's time
John Herschel Personal
John Herschel Related


The homestead in later years just before it was demolished.
Source: Fransen H., A Cape Camera: The architectural beauty of the Cape.

Sketch of the Herschel Obelisk, by C. Piazzi Smyth. South African Library.
Source: Warner - Bicentennial Symposium


The Herschel Monument as it originally appeared in the Grounds of Feldhausen.
Africana Museum, Jhb. Source: Moore

The area used to be called The Grove, before Herschel changed the name to Feldhausen. The Oblisk today stand on the premises of the Grove Primary School.
Source: Moore

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