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station and transported by rail. (Cobern, 1984). In March 1903 one hundred men of
various nationalities were working at the quarry. (Wynberg Times, 3/3/1903). The

abandoned quarry is about 100 m long parallel to the ridge, 10 m wide and 2 m deep.

Lake View Quarry

Lake View Quarry is located above Boyes Drive on the slopes of Muizenberg, and is on

the Peninsula Formation several metres above the Graafwater Formation. (Fig. 3.15).
The rock consists of the normal beige-coloured, fine- to coarse-grained, quartzitic

sandstone containing scattered white quartz pebbles. A second smaller quarry occurs
some 170 m towards the southwest. The opening and closing dates are unknown. In

October 1898, between 30 and 40 men were working in the quarry, and in 1902 it was

being operated by a Mr Clews. (Wynberg Times, 22/10/1898). According to a map
surveyed in 1932 (Trigonometrical Survey, 1952), the quarry was still operating and a

cableway is shown running from the quarry to the top of Lincoln Road in Lakeside (the

northern extension of Boyes Drive had not yet been constructed). The cableway would
have been used to transport dressed building stone down to Lakeside and the winding

capstan at the top of the cableway, as well as rusted cables, are still present. (Fig. 3.16).

At the quarry, the sandstone beds are gently-dipping and are traversed by vertical joint
planes. The building stone blocks were removed by means of feather-wedging as shown

by the presence of both closely-spaced boreholes in the walls of the quarry and split

sandstone blocks bordered by borehole impressions. (Fig. 3.17). The dressed building
stone may have been used locally and/or transported by road or rail to more distant

markets.

The Muizenberg Station building, which replaced an earlier simple building in 1913,
contains the characteristic Peninsula Formation quartzitic sandstone with isolated white

quartz pebbles in the quoins, archways and window surrounds showing a rustic finish,

and may well have been sourced from the nearby Lake View Quarry. (Fig. 3.18).