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Fig. 3.14: Janodien (Bebbies) Cozyn.

Road improvements

Improvements to the roads in the area started in 1925 when the streets of Die Dam were finally

properly laid out and paved. Belmont, Lever, Rouxville and Rosmead roads had all been part of
the early layout of the area. (Fig. 3.15.) In 1905 the Kalk Bay Municipality had done a swap with

Robert Andrew Fish. In exchange for the land that was to become Rosmead Road, Fish had
accepted land near the station and two plots at the top of what is now MacRobert Steps.

There were clearly ongoing problems with the roads and in 1924 Mrs Moorley of ‘Sefton Villa’

in Lever Street wrote several irate letters asking for something to be done. She lived between

Rosmead and Rouxville roads and asked for dirt carts to come and take away the filthy dust lying
ankle deep there. Matters were made worse, she claimed, by the cartage contractor Slamdien

treating the unmade street as an outspan. His horses were apparently unhitched here and allowed
to roll in Lever Street, stirring up clouds of dust.