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About the Contributors:
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.
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 edited the Bulletin since inception and contributed numerous
articles. He has been a lecturer and researcher in town and regional planning at UCT since
1973.
Elizabeth van Heyningen is an academic historian who taught for many years at the
University of Cape Town. She is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the
Department of Historical Studies. Her research interests include the history of Cape Town,
the history of colonial women and the social history of medicine. Her recent book, on the
concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War, brings together several of these interests.
Amongst her publications are: 'Cape Town. The Making of a City' and 'Cape Town in the
Twentieth Century' both with N. Worden and V. Bickford-Smith, and a variety of articles
including a chapter in a book on the siege of Mafeking, on women in the siege. Her recent
book is entitled 'The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War. A Social History' which
was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton prize in 2014. Most recently she has
become interested in the unpublished notebooks of Dr William Guybon Atherstone, a
Grahamstown doctor and amateur geologist.
Tony Murray is a retired civil engineer who concluded his career in charge of the
Engineering Department of the Cape Metropolitan Council. He has since developed an
interest in local engineering history, and has presented numerous talks on various aspects of
his profession, including four series at UCT Summer School. He became the first chairman of
the History and Heritage Panel of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, in which
capacity, among other achievements, he was responsible for persuading the American Society
