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Fig. 2.19: Main Road with Rhodes Cottage and Long Cottage visible; construction is
commencing (1902) on the retaining wall of the terrace on which Rhodes was intending
to build his Baker-designed seaside mansion – a project completed in 1904 by Abe
Bailey, the house being named Rust en Vrede. (MacMillan Coll., UCT).

Fig. 2.20: Main Road near Braemar Road: the tall Victorian house, Greystones (1903),
and Eastcliffe and Lynton (1903) behind, contrast with the older single storey thatched
roof dwelling and small shop advertising ‘Milkmaid Milk’ and with pumpkins on the
roof; an oil lamp stands on the raised and kerbed pavement.
(Fish Hoek Valley Museum).