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Victoria Road Camps Bay district, Western Cape Thomas Charles John BAIN: Engineer

Date: 1884-1888 Client: South African Roads Type: Mountain Pass Status: Extant

A late C19 endeavour to ease access to the outlying areas of the western seaboard of the Cape Peninsula. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference Victoria Road Ross, Graham. 2002. The romance of Cape mountain passes. Cape Town: David Philip. pg 148-149 Storrar, Patricia. 1984. A colossus of roads. Cape Town: Murray & Roberts / Concor. pg 14, 95-98