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Windsor Road

A 1970 painting by Ann Inggs shows the spine of what was called the Middeldorp – for many

years a multiracial, multinational collection of families. (Fig. 3.28). In the 1920s and later there
were people living here from Ukraine, Cornwall, Greece, Latvia, India and Portugal. Towards the

end of the road was a thriving community of fishing families. Although a 1903 municipal minute
refers to it as Windsor Road, as late as 1919 its ‘other’ name, King’s Road, appeared in adverts.

(Fig. 3.29).

It was known as King’s Road because of the King’s Hotel which was on the corner of Main Road.
It’s a good indicator of the informality of the times that it seems to have had two names for many

years.

It’s commonly accepted that it got its name from Windsor near London – the home of the ancestors
of the Fish family who were so prominent in the early years of Kalk Bay. They were a well- known

Kalk Bay fishing family and had bought the land at the bottom of the road and built Windsor House
in 1879. (Fig. 3.30).

Gatesville Road to Rouxville Road – into Die Dam

Gatesville Road

This is one of Kalk Bay’s longer streets and stretches from Anderson Road to Belmont Road and
the edge of the area known as Die Dam. (Figs. 3.31 & 3.32).

The road surface changes from tar to cobbles and its character changes from the smaller working

class properties of the Middeldorp to the much bigger houses of the newer, richer people who came
to live in Kalk Bay.

Gatesville Road is named after Arthur Gates who built his very big house ‘Monte’ in 1902 on the

corner of what became Gatesville and Anderson Roads. (Fig. 3.33). The next year he had plans
passed for Terra Nova next door. He was a substantial property owner and also served as a

Councillor on the Kalk Bay Municipality. In 1903 he was a liquidator of the False Bay Fishing

Company. In these papers he is noted as a shareholder and his occupation as ‘Landing Agent’.