MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aDT2405.M85$bW35 2009
082 04 $a968.7355$222
100 1 $aWalker, Michael,$d1939-
245 10 $aMuizenberg - a forgotten story /$cMichael Walker.
260 $aSt. James [South Africa] :$bM. Walker,$c2009.
300 $axi, 160 p. :$bill., facsims., map, ports. ;$c31 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-158) and index.
505 0 $aThe romance of Muizenberg -- Muizenberg before becoming a holiday resort: shipwrecks, whaling, trek-fishing -- The beginnings of a holiday resort -- The Kalk Bay - Muizenberg municipal years (1895-1913) -- Muizenberg Railway Stations and the pavilions -- Two major projects: water, drainage and electricity -- Other notable projects: the cemetery, Boyes Drive, Marina da Gama, the Marine Walkway -- Main Road, the era of the horse and the arrival of the motorcar -- Historical buildings on Main Road - Muizenberg to St. James -- The quarries -- Some premier hotels in the heyday of Muizenberg -- Sir Herbert Baker architecture -- Religion -- Education -- Sport and recreation -- Wings over Muizenberg -- S.A.W.A.S. during the Second World War. Appendix 1. The hotels of Muizenberg -- Appendix 2. A century of pharmacies -- Chronology 1870-1920.
520 $a"A forgotten story of how a small settlement on the False Bay Coast, consisting of no more than a few farms and a number of fishing huts, became within fifty years (1880-1930) the premier holiday resort in South Africa"--Rear cover.
651 0 $aMuizenberg (South Africa)$xHistory.