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Conclusion

During the pre and inter-war decades the Atlantic coast from Table Bay to Camps Bay

offered a range of beach amenities and accommodations rivalling those at resorts
elsewhere. In addition to these there was the spectacular marine drive round Peninsula

that had been constructed more or less concurrently between 1913 – 23 and had made the
Cape the Motorist’s Paradise. However, the advance of change in Table Bay condemned

the substantial investments there to eventual obliteration while those at Sea Point and

Camps Bay have survived – although pavilions seem to have lost their attraction and
some bathing pools are showing signs of degeneration and need of up-grading.

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McLeod, C. E. (1907) Proposed development of the Table Bay Foreshore of Cape Town,
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