1. TWO PROMOTIONAL FILMS MADE FOR MARINA DA GAMA PROJECT 1970

DATE:    Monday 27 May 2024 at 7.30 pm    
VENUE:    St. James Retirement Hotel
SPEAKER:    Gerald Rosenthal

Gerald Rosenthal is a professional civil engineer who was directly involved in the Marina project from the start of construction. He will place these two, now historic, promotional films in context and then screen them. 

2. AN UNCOMFORTABLE PARADISE – A HISTORY OF DISPOSSESSION AND SLAVERY IN SIMON’S TOWN
 
DATE:    Monday 29 July 2024 at 7.30 pm    
VENUE:    St. James Retirement Hotel
SPEAKER:    Joline Young

Simon’s Town has been a naval port for nearly 200 years and its establishment necessitated the formation of a town with local vegetable garden as well as numerous farms in the wider district to supply the port. A largely ignored aspect of its history concerns the lives and relationships between the pre-colonial inhabitants, those brought in as “slaves” to till the land, build the houses, work in the homes of “slave-holders”, and the rest of the community. 

Joline Young has done extensive research into the records held at the WC Archives for an MA in History at UCT that was awarded in 2015. Her researches and her book shine a new and uncomfortable light on a dark side of the history of the town, nearby farms, and prominent families and personalities, and the lives lived by “slaves”. 

3. ON THE ROCKS: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE AREA BELOW MAIN ROAD FROM KALK BAY HARBOUR TO WOOLLEYS POOL – PART 2:  RESTHAVEN TO WALSOKEN

DATE:    Monday 28 October 2024 at 7.30 pm    
VENUE:    St. James Retirement Hotel
SPEAKER:    Steve Herbert

This narrow strip of land, only one plot deep was largely unbuilt upon for a long time. It once afforded uninterrupted views of the coastline and Bay to travellers along Main Road. Over a period of about 50 years, from the late 1800s to around 1935, fifteen houses were built along here. All of them still remain, some hardly altered but others much changed. 

In Part 2 of this talk the properties from Resthaven (179 Main Rd) to Walsoken (205 Main Rd) will be explored. There are many wonderful photos, house plans and family stories to be presented.

4. WILLIAM FREDERICK HENRY POCOCK (1857 – 1922) PIONEER PHARMACIST, CIVIC LEADER AND PHOTOGRAPHER: NOW AND THEN PHOTOS OF LAKESIDE TO SIMON’S TOWN

DATE:    Monday 24 February 2025 at 7.30 pm    
VENUE:    St. James Retirement Hotel
SPEAKER:    Barrie Gasson

WFH Pocock built the house Carisbrooke in St James and two smaller ones behind it. He lived there for many years and was Mayor of Kalk Bay – Muizenberg Municipality in 1897-98 and 1910-11. He came from a long line of professional pharmacists and had a successful business that later became Heynes & Matthew. He pioneered X-ray work, and was a leading photographer and his collection of photos is housed at the WC Archives and Records. Some of his photos form part of the Jeffreys Collection.

Barrie Gasson will present a brief biography of Pocock and a Now & Then of his photos of Lakeside to Simon’s Town from these Collections. 

5. KBHA AGM

DATE:    Monday 31 March 2025 at 7.30 pm    
VENUE:    St. James Retirement Hotel
SPEAKER:    TBA

THE TALKS ARE OPEN TO ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC. NON-MEMBERS ARE ASKED FOR A DONATION OF R20.00

THE ASSOCIATION WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS AND APPLICATION FORMS ARE AVAILABLE AT ALL MEETINGS OR FROM 
Steve Herbert: arcadia49er@gmail.com 

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE PAYABLE AT THE START OF EACH CALENDAR YEAR: Individual R 60 and Family R 80

BANKING DETAILS:
Kalk Bay Historical Association. FNB Fish Hoek
Br. No. 202309
Account No. 62060946400

THE ASSOCIATION’S PUBLICATIONS MAY BE PURCHASED AT THE MEETINGS

PLEASE DIRECT ANY INQUIRIES TO BARRIE GASSON @ 021 788 1855