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 Kalk Bay, Western Cape William Benjamin Turner NEWHAM: Design Architect PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT: Architect Isa CAMERON: Artist tiled panel

Date: 1936 Type: Post Office Status: Extant Street: Main Road   Click to view map Coordinates: 34°07'32.63" S 18°27'01.31" E

A small-scale face brick building adjacent to the Kalk Bay Railway Station, with a single tiled Ceramic Studio panel by Isa CAMERON adjacent to the entrance (on the street facade). The panel depicts a settler couple in contemporary dress, a fish seller, and a cart with driver - all set against a backdrop of the sea. Other significant features of the building are the finely crafted English Bond face brick, the gauged flat brick arches over windows, the brickwork quoining at door openings, the heavy keystones to arches, the 'tumbled in' capping to the buttresses and a corbelled face brick chimney. The buttresses are similar to the buttresses used on other small contemporary Post Offices in the Peninsula. [William MARTINSON, January 2011] Books that reference Post Office Osthoff, Gernot . 2022. Post Office Murals of South Africa. South Africa: Gernot Osthoff. pg 24, 24 ill, 25 ill Walker, Michael . . The Post Office Murals : And the early milestones of the South Peninsula. Kalk Bay: The Kalk Bay Historical Association. pg 6-7