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when the road was finally completed or when it was officially opened. Chronologically, the

following have been established:

 At the Kalk Bay end, a track had always existed striking up the little valley (later Clairvaux
Road) and over the neck to Clovelly. It seems that Clairvaux Road may have had its formal

beginnings in 1898 when convicts were employed to attend to the sluits and drains and to
construct a new road alongside the municipal stream. This had to be done because the

erection of the new police station caused the closure of the old road. (Wynberg Times,

26/2/1898).

 From 1917 onwards there were representations from local residents to connect Gatesville

road to Clairvaux but these stalled because Clairvaux was not yet made up. By April 1922
Clairvaux road had been surveyed and a plan drawn indicating the required right of way and

various encroachments that had taken place. In 1924 Loch (later changed to Lock) and
Anderson roads were under construction, and by 1925 Council had negotiated the transfer of

small portions of land on Loch and Anderson roads with John Dewdney Hocking and Mr. H.
H. Cox to ease the corners of these roads onto the ascent to High Level Road. An internal

Council letter of May 1927 confirms that Loch road “ … forms part of the approach from

Kalk Bay to the New High Level Road”.

 At the Muizenberg end the initial Council work of 1922 – 23 laid the foundations of the
subsequent stages. Parallel with construction ambitious property development proposals

came forward in 1926 in the form of Muizenberg North Township. (Fig. 3.13.) Internal City
Council correspondence from this time suggests that it was intended at some later date to

extend Boyes Drive northwards to link with Tokai. Also, in 1926, Council recommended that

the Streets and Drainage Committee consider continuing Boyes Drive southward to provide a
vehicular route for traffic to Fish Hoek Bay without having to traverse Main Road. The City

Engineer noted that because of the steep slopes in parts “ …….. the work of construction
would be one of some difficulty.” A ‘red’ and a ‘green’ route were provisionally costed at

£9,000 and £9,900, respectively, but each required the purchase of SAR & H land at Clovelly
– the Fish Hoek Ballast Quarry on Clovelly Road – and negotiations with land owners around

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