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well satisfied. In 1925 Council budgeted to cobble Ladan Road at a cost of £800. (Figs. 3.10 &

3.11).

Harbour Road

This street carried this name from as early as 1900. Its name is a little strange because it never did

lead to the harbour and instead runs parallel to Main Road. It was home for many years to
generations of fishing families who lived in crowded unhygienic conditions through no fault of

their own. (Fig. 3.12).

The late Peter Goles – long time Kalk Bay resident – clearly remembered being pushed along in

his pram and seeing the filth and rats in this road before the Fishermen’s’ Flats were built. (Fig.
3.13).

Peter also remembered fish traders’ horses and carts tied up at this wall while their owners took a
short cut down Essex Road to the harbour. There are pictures of traders’ carts at the Outspan and

it seems this parking place was a shortcut.

In 1969 there was a proposal to build a bridge from Harbour Road to the harbour itself. Thankfully

it was never implemented.

Clairvaux Road

Before about 1929, when Boyes Drive and then Loch Road were completed, Clairvaux Road was

just that – a road and not a very busy. Cows from the Kalis dairy can be seen at the top of Clairvaux
Road. (Figs. 3.14 & 3.15).

The road takes its name from the house Clairvaux – originally the property of early Kalk Bay

property owner Gerhard van Blerk. Until recently the house was largely unaltered from those early
years. (Fisg. 3.16 & 3.17). The name was spelt out ‘Clair’ and ‘Vaux’ on the pillars at the front of

the house. The letters were made of brass and sadly all that remains can be seen in the picture.

Almost certainly the name Clairvaux was copied from the name of the house of Dr Andrew Murray
in Wellington. This eminent Scottish-born DRC theologian holidayed in Kalk Bay several times

at the long-demolished house Patmos on the Point. He would have been well known to van Blerk

– a leading member of the Kalk Bay DRC community at the time. Murray’s house in Wellington