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Lock Road to Windsor Road and into the Middeldorp of Kalk Bay

Lock Road

The 1950 photo of the house Upcross shows the top of Lock Road before it joins Boyes Drive.
(Fig. 3.18). It was built to link the end of Boyes Drive to the top of Clairvaux Road in about 1928.

I was told by the van Blerk family who owned Die Opstal (The Homestead) at the top of Anderson
Road that Lock Road was built over the van Blerk family graveyard.

The origin of the name is unknown. Generally shown as ‘Lock’ Road on old maps it appears as

‘Loch’ Road on the current City of Cape Town Mapviewer site.

Boyes Drive

This subject is covered in detail in KBHA Bulletin 5 (2001). Boyes Drive was named after George
Boyes who had a distinguished career as Magistrate in Simon’s Town, among other postings. In

1923 he was a City Councillor and a driving force in the plans to build what became Boyes Drive.
The road was built between 1923 and 1929. In 1924 at the request of the KB-M Ratepayers

Association the City agreed it should be named Boyes Drive.

He didn’t live to see this wonderful piece on engineering completed having died in St James after
a short illness in 1924.

Godfrey Road

Godfrey Road is the highest road in Kalk Bay and runs off the end of Boyes Drive. (Figs. 3.19 &

3.20). In November 1914 Benjamin John Godfrey – proprietor of Master Printing Works of
Longmarket Street Cape Town bought a triangular plot above what later became Godfrey Road. It

was a brave, speculative decision – there were no other houses and only sandy tracks leading up
from the top of Windsor Road. Moving materials and building a house here would be very difficult.

In October 1915, undaunted by the practical difficulties, or indeed the law (or geography) Mr

Godfrey sent a handwritten letter to the City Engineer asking if he could have permission to build
a wood and iron holiday house on the site. He was anxious to have it finished by Xmas so it was

probably a prefab. Permission was refused. (Figs. 3.21 & 3.22).