Plumstead’s Firfield Road was originally known as Firdale Road.
Prince George Drive, past Plumstead, was first called “New Motor Road” to Muizenberg.
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December 5th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
WOODGATE ESTATE was advertised in late 1928 as Ripe for the picking! The Plum of Peninsula Property. Woodgate Estate Plumstead. Plots from £90 – Easy Terms – Nominal deposit and repayments fom £1 per month!
Our sales register reflects sales in Woodgate Road – 30 Woodgate Road sold some 50 years later (1975) at R21 500 and was bonded by Allied Bank for R15 000; and again some 10 years on (1988) 13 Woodgate Road sold for R75 000. The agents on these sales earned the princley sums of R392.50 and R2062.50 respectively.