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The plan also indicates the position of the parapet block set in place on 7 June 1913 by Mr.

Henry Burton Minister of Railways and Harbours of the Union. The silver trowel that he used
is inscribed as follows:

PRESENTED BY

THE MUNICIPALITY OF KALK BAY TO
THE HONOURABLE HENRY BURTON

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS AND HARBOURS
ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAYING OF THE
FOUNDATION STONE
OF THE

KALK BAY HARBOUR

TH
7 JUNE 1913

A later plan (Fig. 2.7) shows that the galvanised iron bungalow became a harbour bungalow,

in fact, the residence of the Engineer-in-Charge, and was moved closer to the rail line. This
plan (dated 1919) also shows the extent of the land newly reclaimed beyond the established

property lines, as well as the positions of a café, cubicles, bait house, and a coffee stall which

today is known as Kalkie's. Kalkie's, in fact, appears to sit more or less on top of the old fish
cleaning slab. Steps are shown connecting the Approach Road into the harbour down to

Fishery Beach. At this time, too, Irvin and Johnson appear as owners of most of the Point

inside the established property lines. They bought the land in 1916 from the Kalk Bay Fish
and Land Company and owned it until 1923.

Figure 2.8, dated 1926, is of interest for a number of reasons. First, it shows the outline of a

building marked "old ruin" within the fenced-off construction yard. Furlong (1919)
speculated that this might have been of DEIC origin and associated with lime-burning.

Second, it indicates that the brick cottages near the railway fence were no longer being used

as dwellings but were now storage space. Third, His Majesty's Customs has a control gate at
the junction of the breakwater and the fish landing quay as Kalk Bay had been declared a

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