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- The Woodhead Dam Museum in Cape Town is a historical museum that takes visitors on a journey through time to learn about the city’s water supply.
- View over Woodhead Dam in 1906, from Popular Science Monthly Volume 68. In 1870, the growth of Cape Town led to shortages of drinking water.
- Woodhead Dam. With the discoveries of South Africa's diamonds in the 1860s and gold in the 1880s, immigrants flooded into Cape Town and changed it into a...
- Sir John Woodhead, Cape Town's mayor laid the last stone in 1897. Carved stone saying Woodhead Reservoir. Loss of pride.
- Visitors will get a chance to explore the Woodhead Dam’s history, its intricate construction process and its past role in Cape Town’s primary water sources.
- ‘The history of Woodhead Dam is clearly still very relevant to the issues we’ve faced in Cape Town recently, with 2018’s drought still fresh in the back of our minds.
- Meanwhile, the City is celebrating the 126th anniversary of Woodhead Dam. Situated on Table Mountain, it has supplied Cape Town residents with water for more...
- ...126th anniversary of Woodhead Dam highlights the rich history and vital role that these reservoirs have played in the development of the Western Cape.
- The Woodhead dam was constructed between 1893 and 1897 on the ‘Back Table’ of the well-known landmark Table Mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town.
- # The City of Cape Town is inviting people to visit the Woodhead Dam Museum. The museum located across the Hely Hutchinson Dam on Table Mountain...
- We encourage residents and visitors to Cape Town to explore the Woodhead Dam Museum when visiting Table Mountain.
- Over the past years, water supply in Cape town has been reliant on rain fed dams with management based on reconciling annual demand and supply system.
- Help could be far away. Phone signal around the dam areas is often weak or non-existent. Want to hike to the Table Mountain dams in Cape Town?
