Kenilworth Through the Eyes of a Child

We are a group of Grade 6 and 7 students from Cedar House Prep School in Kenilworth, Cape Town. Our names are Hannah, Diadone, Mia, Paul, Keitu, Bay, Tom, Grace, Ella, Ben, Jenna-Mea, Matthew, Luca, Niamh, Maria, Kyran, Amrev, Sam, Joshua, Finn, Sebastian, Ella, Jamie, Daniel, Caitlin and Sino.

In a semester-long elective module called “Explore: Places Tell Stories”, we created VoiceMap audio tours in Cape Town with our teachers Hazel and Andreas. Along the way we learned things about the human and natural history of our hometown, the science of sound, oral history and technology.

We had loads of fun creating the tours and we hope you have fun experiencing them.

The tour starts on the pavement of Kenilworth Road just downhill (east) of the railway crossing next to Kenilworth Station in Kenilworth. On this side of the street there are two oak trees and houses behind a brown-red brick wall. Just ahead of you, as you face uphill and towards the mountain in the distance, there is small path that turns left off the pavement just before the railway crossing. On the opposite side of the road there is a large parking lot in front of several restaurants. You can get here quite easily using public transport. On the Cape Town to Simon’s Town railway line, disembark at Kenilworth Station. Nearby Main Road is well-serviced by MyCity busses – get off the bus near the intersection with Kenilworth Road and walk a few hundred meters down Kenilworth Road to the railway crossing. There is ample, guarded parking on the large parking lot on the opposite side of Kenilworth if you come in your own vehicle. This is a linear (i.e. not circular) walking tour, but we will give you directions back to the starting point once the audio tour has ended.