Carl was born in Harfield, Claremont, and was moved with his family at the age of 18. Today he lives in the Southern Suburbs with his wife and has three daughters and one granddaughter.  He comes from a large and colourful family of ten – four sisters and three brothers. After the removal from Harfield, his family was moved to Mitchell’s Plain – a place he had no connection with, and still does not associate with the term ‘home’. 

Carl is a skilled builder and spent three decades in the construction industry. He still enjoys taking on the occasional personal building project, though he has long-since retired from it. 

He regularly took his children for tours around Harfield, to show them the street he grew up on and to share tales of his youth. It pained him to observe the area’s gentrification and the loss of community. It was his passion for the neighbourhood that sparked his daughters’ interest & helped to start this collection of memories.