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Kalk Bay Primary

School 1907

PWD work along
this coastline included
the Police quarters
(1896) behind the
rst Muizenberg Post
Ofce, which was
built later in 1911,

Kalk Bay Primary School - c.1907 the Kalk Bay Police
Station in February 1897, the rst Kalk Bay
Primary School (four classrooms) in 1898 and the Marine Research
Station, St. James, in 1899. Here the work was completed by Greaves’
successor Adolph Howard. This station had to meet the requirements of
Professor Gilchrist, the Marine Biologist. Greaves retired in 1900, aged

fty-six, due to ill-health, prior to the completion of the Marine Research
Station. He died shortly after arriving back home in Scotland in 1901.

Marine Research Station, St.James - c. 1902

Hitchin, Thomas (1865-1910)

Thomas Hitchin was born in Nottingham, England, in 1865 and was
educated in Nottingham and University College, London. He came to