Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Post Office St James, Western Cape William Benjamin Turner NEWHAM: Design Architect PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT: Architect Joyce ORDBROWN: Artist tiled panel

Date: 1937 Type: Post Office Status: Extant Street: Main Road   Click to view map Coordinates: 34°07'08.06" S 18°27'30.84" E

A small scale building adjacent to the Railway Station, with two tiled Ceramic Studio panels at low level (on the Street facade), both by Joyce ORDBROWN. The left hand side panel is titled 'VAN DER STEL EXPLORES THE PENINSULAR FROM ST JAMES IN 1693' and repeated in Afrikaans. The right hand side panel is titled 'ST JAMES NAMED AFTER THE CHURCH DEMOLISHED IN 1900' and repeated in Afrikaans. It is presumed that the original face brick finish of the building was plastered over, possibly in the recent past, when the building was converted into a restaurant. The building is flanked with buttresses in a similar manner to the other small contemporary Post Offices in the Peninsular. [William MARTINSON, January 2011] Books that reference Post Office Osthoff, Gernot . 2022. Post Office Murals of South Africa. South Africa: Gernot Osthoff. pg 26, 26 ill, 27-28 ill Walker, Michael . . The Post Office Murals : And the early milestones of the South Peninsula. Kalk Bay: The Kalk Bay Historical Association. pg 8-10