Correction

In the story ‘A Walk on Central Hill’ (September 2018), it mentions ‘Pollock Beach, named in honour of the city’s most famous cricketing family’. Jonker Fourie set us straight:

‘It is meant to be spelled Pollok, without the ‘c’, so it definitely wasn’t named after Graham Pollock. According to Millers Local blog, the beach was named after the Pollok Hotel. It later became the Summerstrand Hotel, which was demolished and made way for Summerseas [apartment complex]. The original building dated back to the 1890s, when the dunes were reclaimed and the land allocated for a hotel. It was built by a guy called Pollok, who came from Scotland and named the hotel after himself. So there you go – now you know.’

– Thanks, Jonker.