Kalk Bay property survey map
1897
A hand-drawn survey map of Kalk Bay property plots, showing individual erven and their owners along the shorefront, including a plot registered to N.J. van Blerk.
A few very large, high-resolution survey maps of Kalk Bay and Muizenberg/Clovelly from 1900–1902 exist in the archive but are too large to display here directly — ask if you'd like to see the originals.
Building Plan No. 5230, Main Road, Lakeside
City of Cape Town, undated (early 20th century)
The cover sheet of an official building plan, listing the owner as “Van Blerk J.P.” and the property location as Main Road, Lakeside — the same locality named in the 1916 death notice of Johannes Petrus Stegman van Blerk.
The plan drawing itself is not included here, only the identifying cover sheet.
Klientuin (Clovelly), looking toward Vischhoek
1900
A captioned landscape view identifying the farms and landmarks of the area later known as Clovelly, including the Visch Hoek farm named in the Erf 90138 title register, plus Uitkyk and the house known as Craaie on the Simon's Town road.
More a locating view than a formal map, but included here for how precisely it identifies the surrounding farms and landmarks by name.
“Mr N.J. Van Blerks Property” — survey diagram
undated, early 20th century
A detailed hand-drawn survey of a property on the Main Road to Simon's Town, near Kalk Bay Railway Station, showing the stoep, passage, and footways, with Belmont Road and the neighbouring Parisis property marked alongside.
“The Van Blerk Estate” — subdivision plan
undated, early 20th century
An original estate subdivision plan explicitly labelled “The Van Blerk Estate,” with named roads (Belmont, Harmon, Roseberry Avenues) and a locality plan of the coastline from Simon's Town through Kalk Bay to Muizenberg.
One of the most significant maps in this collection — direct documentary evidence of a named Van Blerk family land holding.
Diagram of the Vischhoek Farm
surveyed 1808; farm divided into sections A, B and C
A copy of the original diagram of the Vischhoek farm, marked “Cancelled” after its division. This is the same farm named repeatedly elsewhere in this collection — in the Erf 90138 title register and the Klientuin landscape view.
An accompanying account names a later owner, Mr G.C. van Blerk of Kalk Bay, who from around 1900 struck a business deal for the water rights to the nearby Kleintuin springs.
Clovelly Estate and Mayville Estate survey map
estate laid out 1922, on land dating to 1801
A survey map of the Clovelly and Mayville Estates, with a note explaining that this area was originally called Klein Tuin, first rented out in 1801, and that the dotted track running through it follows the oldest road in the southern Cape Peninsula, dating to 1687.
Erven transfer register
19th–20th century
A hand-drawn ledger tracking the transfer of various erven between owners over time, naming “N.J. van Blerk” and “his seven children” among a long chain of transactions.
Difficult to read in places; a clearer copy would help confirm the full chain of ownership.
Van Blerk Cottages, c. 1930
c. 1930
An aerial view of a row of cottages, very likely among those built by J.P. van Blerk for fishermen's accommodation, as described in the 1904 council report on the Historical Documents page.
Rounding the bend between Kalk Bay and Fish Hoek
1897
Ox-drawn fish carts wait for the catch at the railway line between Kalk Bay and Fish Hoek. The farmhouse “Die Opstal” is identified in the background.