by Trevor Vaughan Jones

THE QUARRY ON SEAFORTH BEACH

One of the least known quarries of the Cape Peninsula, and not easy to spot, was worked on Seaforth beach in 1865, where granite was shaped on site to re-enforce the shaky foundation of Roman Rock lighthouse, built only a few years earlier in 1861.  This well known False Bay “landmark” (if one may call it that) is South Africa’s only lighthouse built on a rock at sea, which becomes visible at low tides.  It was quite an achievement to...


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