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Fig. 3.21: Plan of Kalk Bay (Th Bennett, 1904, CAR: M/940/942). The series of plans
of which this is part was made for the purpose of providing electricity to the False Bay
suburbs. It gives the precise location of all streets and built structures, articulating
rather nicely the two nuclei, Kalk Bay and Muizenberg – the latter now appearing as a
proper town with almost a hundred houses. Kalk Bay is not much smaller, but there is
as yet no sign of harbour development, the biggest building on the Point being ‘Kalk
Bay Cold Storage’. In the main road both the King’s and the Masonic hotels are
shown (and the St James hotel further north). The densest concentration is the row of
commercial buildings opposite the railway station that today house several coffee and
antique shops. A tiny grid has appeared with a few parallel streets up the slope in the
kloof. Further south (left), the landmark row of cottages bordering the Fish Hoek
valley, now the beginning of Clovelly, are already there.
