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Bay. Vincent and Eveleigh moved into Toevlught and two semi-detached houses, Quarrie and

Rockleigh, were built in front of it on the Main Road. (Figs. 4.30 & 4.31) Will G’s sister Ethel
Badenhorst and her family moved into Quarrie and Desmond and Muriel moved into

Rockleigh. Later a large, high garage was built at Rockleigh to house a motorized caravan that
the family used for hunting trips into the Kalahari. Over the years the family owned four of

these heavy-duty caravans. (Figs. 4.32 & 4.33).

In 1937 a vacant plot was bought opposite Quarrie and Rockleigh that was said to have been
the Toevlught tennis court. Desmond and Muriel built a house, Sea Spray, on the plot to house

their family which grew to sons Neville and Anthony, and daughters Dawn and Colleen. (Fig.
4.34). Vincent and Eveleigh had daughters, Valda, Diana and Jennifer and a son Geoffrey. The

last two were twins and a second storey was built on Toevlught when they were born.

Will G and May’s oldest son Neil, after growing up at Mayville, lived in a cottage in Osborne
Road Mowbray before moving into Haredale on the Main Road and later to Grotto Road in

Rondebosch. He worked with his brothers at the brickfields in Mowbray. Neil married three
times and had six children, Peter, Islay Mary, Rosemarie, Ian, William and Roslyn.

During the early 1930s the Hares built a block of three apartments, now known as St Vincent,
opposite Mayville on the corner of Main and Behr Roads, Kalk Bay. (Fig. 4.35). Percy and his

family moved into The Warren, the upstairs apartment facing Behr Road. After the death of

Eveleigh Hare’s father, Frank Brooke, in 1938, her mother Hannah moved into Avalon, a
downstairs apartment facing the Main Road. Frank was the son of Archdeacon Richard Brooke,

Rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Kalk Bay, 1900 – 1926. Hannah was the daughter of Sir
Pieter Faure of Vergenoegd in Somerset West.

In 1936 Voyager was sold to the Molteno brothers and Desmond and Vincent Hare built a new
40ft motorized yacht, Elegance, in the Mowbray brickyard. Her twin masts were sourced from

spruce trees growing in the Tokai forest. After her launch in the Cape Town docks, Elegance

was sailed round the Peninsula to moorings at Kalk Bay. (Figs. 4.36 – 4.40). By 1939 the
protection offered by the harbour had been improved substantially by the completion of the

North Mole, which reduced range action considerably.

Will G and Percy Hare were keen fishermen and naturalists and they enjoyed the open veld

and crayfishing. (Fig. 4.41) From 1927 the brothers and their sons spent their annual December

holidays camping at Cape Point on the farm Blaawberg Vlei owned by a friend, William