That old mill on the M3

Mostert's Mill is just over 200 years old, and the second-oldest mill in Cape Town. It was named after someone called Sybrand Jacobus Mostert who apparently bought the mill and surrounding property in 1823.

Mostert's Mill has been restored twice: first in 1935 by the Department of Public Works, and then again in 1995 by the Friends of Mostert's Mill. I was sad to read a sign on the gate indicating that the mill is now closed to the public except by special request to the Department of Public Works. I think my mother still has a photo of my brother and I playing outside the mill some 25 years ago.