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Fig. 2.21: Entering St. James at Milestone 16: the seaside-edge of the road is still informal
but the signs of change are visible elsewhere: multiple telegraph lines, the single-track

railway, large new homes, bathing boxes, the second R.C. Church, and South Africa’s first

Marine Aquarium (1902) on St. James Common. (W. Cape Archives).

Fig. 2.22: The first motor ‘run’ to Kalk Bay, Saturday 21 December, 1901: a halt at La
Rivage (later St. James Hotel) – the prominent flagpole in the garden accurately identifies
the site of this photo. In the leading car, a Decauville Tonneau (French), is Sir Alfred
Hennessy, chairman of the Automobile Club of South Africa. (Rosenthal, 1977).