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These were:

• The buildings that were originally accommodation for fishermen and their
families and now known as Fishermen’s Cove.

• Adams Property No. 8 Windsor Road. The house plan was drawn by Christian

Adams and was passed in 1902. (Fig. 2.34.) The outside of the house itself
remains unaltered today although the delicate balcony shown here has been

replaced by a columned balcony. Over the years it was home to many families
among them the well-known Clarences. Many will remember it from the

1950s as Pauline Dyer’s Guest House with its wooden balcony and creepers.

• Adams Property No. 10. It is not known when this was built. It was sold to
Golda Brown in 1922. Despite her name (probably Anglicised) she and her

husband were Jews born in Riga, Latvia. (Fig. 2.35.)
• The Forge. (Fig. 2.36.) This picture, taken recently, shows the building

Christian Adams occupied from 1910 as his farrier, blacksmith and wagon

building shop. It was probably rebuilt to what we see now in 1926. When the
present owner was doing renovations, horse shoes were dug up in what is now

the back garden. It later became a garage and petrol station. It was at one time

rented by Leon Klein who rented parking space to motorists. For many years
the upper flat was known as ‘Bay View’ and was occupied by the Hammond

family.
• Adams Cottages from architect’s drawing 1927. (Fig. 2.37.) Extensively

altered and added to in 1927, these 3 cottages are largely unchanged today.
The front one on to the street is as shown in the drawing although the portico

has gone.

• Adams properties Nos. 14 & 16 Windsor Road, ‘Southwold’ & ‘Hinton’. (Fig.
2.38.). It is believed these cottages had been built by 1925.

• Adams property Ocean View Flats, corner of Windsor & Gatesville Roads.

(Fig. 2.39.) This building of four flats is almost exactly as seen today apart
from the balconies having been closed in. Designed in 1923 by the architect J

A Smith of Wynberg, they were built in 1923 at a cost of £3,000.