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Developments 1816 to 1900

There is little information about the original buyer, van der Schyff, and he sold erf 89659

three years later in 1819 to Johannes Hermanus Muller for 8,000 guilders – a tidy profit of

£25. Well away from the only real activity (fishing) in Kalk Bay at this time, nothing much
happened here for many years. The interest here is in portions 4 and 5 of the erf plan (Fig.

3.3.) The land passed through the hands of Oloff Johannes Truter, a merchant, and in July of
1842 portion 4 was bought by the Rev. P E Faure, and portion 5 by James Hutchinson. Both

pieces of land were about 6,500 sq.m. in extent. (0.65 ha.)

Portions of Lot 4 particularly, passed through some well-known hands over the 60 - odd years
that followed, among them Alexander Maderose, Robert Joseph Glynn and Charles King.

There were divisions, deductions and consolidations of a detail too complex to explore here.

Eighty four years after the original sale the 1900 municipal plan clearly shows the footprint
of the two buildings, owned by F G Mills, with the stream next to today’s Dalebrook Place

flats. (Fig. 3.4.)

In Fig. 3.4 on the left is Dalebrook House. Next to it is the wedge-shaped piece of land now

housing the Kalk Bay Community Centre with Douglas Cottage behind. The small building -

F. G. Mills store is now the site of Dalebrook Flats. Next to it is the successor to one of the
buildings shown in 1816 - called Millwood with Millwood Cottage behind. Next to that is

Beaufort Cottage. Quarterdeck Road did not exist in 1900 but next along is Kimberley House
with the unnamed Kimberley Road next to it. Above it is Quarterdeck, the home of Thomas

Johnson Anderson and now demolished (see below). Next to that is Quinte Favilla owned by
Sir Charles Abercrombie Smith. The small cottage between erven 9 and 8 in the Quarterdeck

Township was owned by Anderson and was demolished in 1935. For the rest the area was

empty awaiting the consolidation, subdivision and sale of the plots in what would be known
as Quarterdeck Township in 1934.