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Kathleen Nobbs. In the next year a new pergola, porch and entrance hall was
designed at Colwyn, 22 Main Road, for Mrs. Ethel May Taylor. This home
is a Provincial Heritage Site (11 May 1984). Delbridge died of a sudden
heart attack at Tivoli Hotel in Klerksdorp on 21 October 1946, aged sixty-
eight. He was survived by his wife, Garven, two sons and a daughter. One
son, Edmund, followed in his father’s footsteps and became an architect.

Reid had died some twenty-four years previously on 18 October 1922 at the
Tamboerskloof Nursing Home, aged sixty-six. He was survived by his wife
Victoria, two sons and a daughter.

De Witt, Antony Mathinus (1854-1916)

Antony de Witt was born in Dordrecht, Netherlands, and after serving
articles with a local architect in Holland entered the
established architectural practice of his father, Dirk
de Witt. He came to South Africa for health reaVRQV
and was recruited to work on the new Lebombo
railway line for the Transvaal Republic (ZAR)

under President Burger in 1877. The project was
abandoned and after working in Potchefstroom,
De Witt left for Cape Town in 1880, joining
Charles Freeman’s ofce as a draughtsman

before branching out on his own.
De Witt operated from the Colonnade Building in

Greenmarket Square and is credited with introducing Antony de Witt - 1905
‘the half-timber style of building’, a Continental
Renaissance design which he used to great effect in a Swiss Chalet theme
for H. Storm’s home, Corrie Lair, Upper Quarterdeck Road, Kalk Bay.
Here (plans approved 19 January 1905) he designed a small mountainside
home, where the lower part of the mountain stone grows out of the rocks
around; the upper oor is simple enough, the decoration being supplied
by the woodwork of the overhanging eaves, canopies above the fretwork

balcony and also above the windows and entrance porch. This porch
is on one side and is reached by a ight of stone steps with fretwork
banisters; a design that was original and timeless. (Picton-Seymour:
Victorian Buildings in South Africa. p.121).

Antony de Witt died on 17 April 1916, aged sixty-two. He died
penniless, besides a few personal belongings (mainly books), at
Westbury, Ottery Road, Wynberg, home of his daughter, Marie. He had,