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Quarterdeck 1935 (St. James)

Kilcreen Residential Hotel 1935 -37 (Main Road, St. James - present Mare Video)
Liscard 1910 - 19 (Kalk Bay)

Millwood House 1912 -13 (Kalk Bay)

Boulevard Private Hotel 1935 (Main Road, Kalk Bay)
Killowen Private Hotel 1935 - 1939 (Main Road, Kalk Bay - present Springtide)

There were seven long-lived boarding houses which sometimes styled themselves as private
hotels. Of the seven, five were in Kalk Bay and two in St. James, and six of the buildings still

survive. The Kalk Bay group comprised Innisfail, Rouxville House, Castle Hill, Strathmore,

and Chartfield; in St. James were The Mearns and The Breakers. In the 1920s and 30s all of
them advertised prominently in the Cape Times which devoted a whole page to Where to Stay

in the Cape. (Fig. 4.19.)

Dalebrook House

Between Kalk Bay and St. James opposite Dalebrook beach stands the Innisfail Guest House.
Originally known as Dalebrook House and later the Innisfail Hotel, this building has an

interesting history. It is unique in that it was not influenced by the environments of either the

Kalk Bay or the St. James Hotels.

On 6 June 1834 the executors of the insolvent estate of Jacobus Arnold Hurter sold Lot 3 (1.4

acres) of Erf 89659 to Oloff Johannes Truter. There were no buildings on the property and
when Truter subsequently sold on 14 June 1842 to the Reverend Abraham Faure for £250 the

property was referred to as ‘Scheveningen Binnen’.

In the next sale on 12 March 1853 Rev. A. Faure sold this property to his son-in-law Major

(later Lt. Colonel) Henry Ashton for £400. Major Ashton had married Faure’s daughter some
three years previously. The name had now changed in the title deeds to ‘Dalebrook’ and

included the seaside cottage and stables which the Rev. Faure had built during his ownership.

Ashton sold ‘Dalebrook’, including the seaside cottage and stables, to Harriet Humphreys on

29 November 1870 for £800. Here Harriet built Dalebrook House. (Fig. 4.20.) It was a large