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small cottage shown. Above Quarterdeck Road there are no houses at all apart from Sin Huth
(Storm’s house Senn Hütte). The Anderson house Quarterdeck from which the road and

Estate took its name is shown at centre at a slight angle. (Fig. 3.56.)

An aerial photo, taken twenty years later in 1935 as development started on the Quarterdeck

Estate, shows that Upper Quarterdeck Road had not yet been built and one house has been
completed (Blue Skyes - centre). To the left of it Woodlea is under construction. The great

terrace on which Petrava would be built can be seen at the top of the picture. The rest of the
plots are empty and many of them very rocky. The partially made Quarterdeck Road and

Prenton Street can be seen. (Figs. 3.57 & 3.58.) Between 1934 and 1950 a surge of building

and development took place from Petrava on Boyes Drive to The Periwinkle on the Main
Road.

It was the death of Thomas Anderson in 1930 that set the stage for the consolidation and sub-

division of Quarterdeck Estate. The large erf owned in 1901 by his brother-in-law Dr. Charles
Murray had been bought by Anderson and by 1934 had been consolidated by his children as

shown on Erf plan 89602. (Figs. 3.59 & 3.60.) This is the consolidated lot which incorporated

two erven owned by the St. George’s Orphanage. It was a big piece of land – 6,492 square
meters in extent – and in terms of Anderson’s will was inherited by his children and

transferred into their names on the 1 May 1934.

Anderson had left his house Quarterdeck to his daughter Effie who continued the tradition of
family holidays at Kalk Bay for some years. He had also left money to his servant Gertrude

Fernandez and to her husband Dickie (Richard), for many years the Kalk Bay Postman and

attendant at the Olympia Picture Palace. Anderson requested that if his house was sold the
Fernandez family be allowed to live in the cottage shown on the 1915 Attridge plan. This

may have happened but the cottage was subsequently demolished in 1935.

From a family note [of Anderson’s granddaughter] we are told that Dickie Fernandez was the

son of a Filipino sailor, Joseph Fernandez who had been a crewman on an Anderson &