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two cottages Trevone
1 and 2 behind Devon
Cottage. Other St.
James work was a
cottage for Henry
Beard, Mallet Road

(later HeytRr Road) in
1911. In Kalk Bay he
designed the wooden
Kalk Bay Beach
Pavilion at the end of
1910.

The Kalk Bay beach pavilion - c. 1914

Arthur Reid (1856-1922) FRIBA (1889)

-oined Delbridge in 1912. +e was twenty-two years senior to Delbridge
and was the eldest of three brothers, all of whom practiVed architecture in
South Africa. He was born on 5 July 1856 and served articles under his father

Walter Reid. The family moved from England and settled in Cape Town in
1877. After a spell with the Cape Town and Grahamstown Municipalities
Reid opened his practice in Cape Town in 1898 with his brother Walter, who
later managed their Johannesburg ofce. His rst assignment in St. James
was the design of the home The Ley, 8 Ley Road, for Gus Trollip in 1905.

In partnership with Delbridge (A.H. Reid and Delbridge) they completed
the design in May 1916 of the home Lamorna, 10 Ley Road, for Mr. W.A.
Fairbridge. The previous month they had designed the
home Arundel for Mr. A.J. Robb which stood behind
Condover, 10 Main Road. Walter Fallon joined the
partnership in 1924 after Reid’s death and in that
year the practice designed a large double-story
semi-detached home for Messrs. A. and A.C.
Withinshaw which extended between St. James
and Sandhurst Roads (No. 9 St. James Road and
No. 10 Sandhurst Road).

Further work included alterations and
additions (new paved courtyard and verandah)
in January 1926 at Rocklands, 38 Main Road for

Arthur Henry Reid - 1905