Interesting stuff about my home town Tr.9er, thank you for posting it. The ship shown on the front page is the Winchester Castle which carried me off to exile in England in 1950. i was born in the Peninsula Maternity Hospital in District 6 - the buildings still stood there until just a couple of years ago - and we lived in Simons Town where my Dad served as a signaller in the HQ of C in C South Atlantic.
Interestingly Fareastdriver, i also arrived without the right paperwork - but it wasn't discovered that I was an illegal immigrant until I had already been serving in Her Majesty's Royal Air Force for five years.