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He pioneered unsuccessful attempts to trawl for sole in False Bay and was one of the

first members of the Kalk Bay-Muizenberg Council when it was formed in 1895. He
died in 1899 aged only 46. In 1898 the building and the fish offal emanating from it

were found to be a danger to public health and it was demolished in 1904.

By 1900 the pattern of development was as shown in Municipal Map M4.134 of 1900.
(Fig. 2.4.) This map was commissioned by the Kalk Bay - Muizenberg Municipality

(KB-MM) and it shows the then-unnamed Windsor Road with the various plots under

early ownership. It was subsequently added to and amended as ownership changed.
The Outspan had by then retracted to its present form and a piece of the original

Outspan had passed into private hands. No buildings are shown, although the map

shows them in other parts of Kalk Bay, and there definitely were buildings in Windsor
Road by 1900. It is thought that some buildings were not shown because the map was

drawn from historical data and not from on-site visits. It is clear that property
ownership had no racial barriers as properties are shown owned by Falal Samai and

Ryklief.

Carl Kleinschmidt’s wife, Emma Matilda (born Major), was a major property owner

in the area and she eventually owned the entire area with the dark shading on Fig. 2.4
– a very large and valuable slice of Kalk Bay. Over the years she traded pieces with

the Municipality to consolidate her holding. There were some fishermen’s houses near
the Main Road and some dilapidated houses that she demolished at the top of Windsor

Road. (Figs. 2.5 - 2.7.)

When bubonic plague broke out in the Peninsula in 1901, although ultimately Kalk

Bay was not affected, the KB-MM launched a health drive. Among other things the
inspectors found these cottages to be very overcrowded – with one being declared

unfit for human habitation. They were empty a few years later when the formidable

Emma Kleinschmidt entered into a ding-dong battle with the Municipality who
wanted them demolished as they were derelict. There was a very sharp exchange of

letters from her and her lawyer and she ended up threatening to sue the Municipality
for damaging her property.