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About the contributors:
Derek Stuart-Findlay graduated with a B Comm from UCT and joined Old Mutual
where he became an Executive of Old Mutual Properties. His family have been
residents of St James since 1885, and he serves the community through membership
of the Executive Committee of the Residents and Ratepayers Association and the
Kalk Bay Historical Association. He is a past-President of the Crankhandle Club and
co-authored the book The Motorist’s Paradise with the late Bob Johnston.
Contact: dsfindlay@telkomsa.net
Mike Walker graduated with a B Comm from UCT and after a variety of jobs,
including Purser on Safmarine ships, ran his own business in the fibre-glass industry
for several decades. His family have lived in St James since 1925. History has always
been a passion and he has authored 16 books on Kalk Bay and Cape Peninsula
history. His other passion is golf and he has been a life-long member of Westlake
Golf Club of which he is a past-President.
Contact: coolarty@mweb.co.za
John Parkington, a Mancunian by birth, completed all of his degrees at Cambridge
University in England. He is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at UCT, where he
has taught since 1966.
Contact: john.parkington@uct.ac.za
Cedric Poggenpoel was born on Quarterdeck Road and educated at Holy Trinity
Primary School Kalk Bay, Arsenal Secondary School in Simon’s Town, and Harold
Cressy in Cape Town. In 1962 he started in archaeology as a field assistant working at
Peers Cave, Fish Hoek. In 1986 he studied at UCLA Berkeley in the USA on a grant
from the Louis Leakey Foundation. In 1996 he completed his MA in archaeology at
UCT with Distinction. In 2006 he retired from UCT’s Department of Archaeology.
He has excavated more than 100 archaeological sites in SA and authored or co-
