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or other right of passage in favour of owners of Quarterdeck along the area marked
‘common passage 14.83ft.’ on the sale plan have not yet been established and that the owners

of the said area do not admit the existence of such’.

As stated earlier, Smuts had been the owner of Millwood. From the file it is not clear how this

matter was resolved but the auction went ahead as planned and the relatively large plots were
snapped up by wealthy people of influence, completely different in every way to the mainly

fishing and working class inhabitants of the village of Kalk Bay. By Kalk Bay standards both
the plots and the houses built on them were large and were designed by some of the top

architects of the day.

Nine very big houses were built – all but one in a six year period. Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4 were

bought by Justice James Stratford and after subdividing off Beaufort Cottage he built his
house Robin Rise in 1940. Lots 2 & 3 were bought from Stratford by Austin Henry Ashley-

Cooper who had Mount Granville and The Periwinkle built in 1938. Lots 5, 6, 9 & 10 were
bought by Ernest Cubitt Frost who built Woodlea in 1935. Lot 7 was bought by Mrs Buisinne

but was subsequently sold to Frost. Lot 8 was bought by Arthur Vintcent Crossley Bisset who

built Blue Skyes in 1934. Lots 6 & 7 above Quarterdeck road were bought by Violet Elizabeth
Brown who built Arlington in 1940.

Houses not forming part of the Estate and built at this time were Petrava by Josephine

Claiborne Clegg in 1938, and Broadside by Ruth Wharton-Hood in 1941. The last was
Nieuport by L M J Keyzer in 1949. (Fig. 3.64.)

Blue Skyes

Blue Skyes (7 Quarterdeck Road) was the first to be built and the plans were passed on 1
August 1934. The house was built for Arthur Vintcent Crossley Bisset. He was the son of

James Bisset and was a cousin of some of John Charles Molteno’s children. The Bissets were