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on the Recreation Road side you will see a picture of a green parrot and the name Green
Parrot Place.

Along Kommetjie Road there was a row of small shops and then a boarding house

known as Milton which became the Outspan Hotel. The Methodist Church was built in
st
1 Avenue in 1922, and in 1952 the Dutch Reformed Church was built following the
closure of the Kalk Bay DR church.

Along Beach Road hotels such as The Windsor and The Lanark were established during

the 1920s.

And so the southern end of Fish Hoek started to consolidate. Unfortunately, Main Road

today is extremely ugly and it is difficult to do much about it, short of pulling everything
down!

Apart from the hotel and retail types of business there was stone quarrying on both the
Fish Hoek and Clovelly sides of the valley. In 1895 the Delbridge brothers negotiated a

lease with Hester de Villiers on the sandstone koppie high up on Elsies Peak. (See Fig.
5.1). Their quarry ran for about 10 years. The stone was cut and dressed on site before

being brought down on trollies that ran on rails down to Kommetjie Road at a point near
the Primary School. Civil engineering students from the Cape Technikon recently

excavated the quarry and some of the artifacts they found are in the Fish Hoek Valley

Museum. In 1903 Lambert Colyn opened a quarry on the Clovelly Road on the site of the
present electricity sub-station. He built a rail line across Main Road to the siding at Fish

Hoek in order to ship out his stone. The line remained long after the quarry closed and
was only removed in 1930. The foundations of his bridge across the Silvermine River

can still be seen.