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He and his wife Judith (Maree) had seven children, all but one of them born in

Windsor Road and were a large and well-known family in Kalk Bay. They bought the
land from Schechter in 1925 and a large house was designed. (Fig. 2.28.) It was built

in two stages, as many Greek houses are, by one of the Irish McCarthy brothers.
Charles McCarthy, later founder of what became McCarthy Construction, lived in

Windsor Road at the time and Arthur Goles lent him £50 to help him establish his
business. (Fig. 2.29.)

The top storey was added in 1931 and the house has remained in the ownership of the
same family for 88 years – the only one in the road to do so. In April 2011 Arthur

Goles’ great-great-granddaughter Ella Wardle was born at Arcadia – the fifth

generation of the family to live here. Many people have rented the downstairs section
of the house over the years, including in the 1930s R. Shaskolsky who owned Premier

Drapers at the bottom of Norman Steps.

Around 1926 the tumble-down cottages next to Arcadia, once owned by Emma
Kleinschmidt, were replaced by ‘St. Clair’ and ‘Caerleon’.

King’s Hotel

From the earliest times the site at the bottom right hand side of the Windsor Road was
occupied by King’s Hotel. (Fig. 2.30.) The modest single storey thatched roof hotel

was built in 1882 and after King was declared insolvent in 1885 it passed into the

hands of Dr Jonas Hiddingh, and then in 1889 to Anders Ohlsson of Ohlsson’s Cape
Breweries. The hotel was run from 1909 to 1960 by the Calder family who saw the

hotel through its demolition in 1929 and rebuilding as the New King’s Hotel building
we see today. From Windsor Road’s point of view the bar that opened in the street

became a significant watering hole for fishermen for many years

The Attridge plan of 1915 shows the King’s Hotel with a row of staff quarters at the

back of the property. (Fig. 2.31.) The buildings shown above the King’s Hotel
introduce one of the main figures in the development of Windsor Road. He was

certainly the biggest property developer Windsor Road or probably Kalk Bay had,
until the recent redevelopment of the Majestic site. Past the King’s, the other