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About the Contributors:
Barrie Gasson is a life-long resident of St. James whose grand-parents settled here in
1918. He was a co-founder of the Kalk Bay Historical Association in 1995, together with
John Moyle and Andy Smith. He has been a lecturer and researcher in town and regional
planning at UCT since 1973.
Louis de Waal is a civil engineer who retired after 38 years at HHO Africa Consulting
Engineers. He served on the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Board from 1973 – 2013
and was Chairman for the last 19 years. He is passionate about cycling and is Chairman
of the Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN) which promotes all facets of bicycle
culture in poor communities.
Steve Herbert, after years in international insurance management, settled in Kalk Bay in
1996. He has had a long association with Kalk Bay through his wife Judy’s Goles and
Delbridge families. They live in Windsor Road in the house built by Arthur Goles in
1928. He has been on the KBHA committee since 1997 and has contributed a number of
talks and published two family histories.
Peter Coates is a retired professional librarian, who spent most of his career working at
what is now the National Library in Cape Town. He had a life-long interest in public
transport and still travels by Metrorail. He built a Meccano tramcar as far back as 1956.
He researched the topic of Cape Town's tramways in the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in
the book "Track and Trackless" (1976). He is an avid indexer of newspapers, collects
electrical byegons such as china, brass and bakelite switches, wooden and bakelite plugs,
wooden fuse-boxes, bells, old electric globes, and the like. He is fascinated by old and
obsolete things in general. He has a collection of old and antique telephones which he is
keen to sell.
